Susan Blakely
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Susan Blakely is an American film actress and actress, who has mainly played supporting roles. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. Blakely also has appeared in films including The Towering Inferno, Report to the Commissioner, Capone, The Concorde ... Airport '79, and Over the Top. Blakely arrived in Hollywood in the early 1970s, and began appearing in supporting roles in films including Savages, The Way We Were, and The Lords of Flatbush. Her first major role was as Patty Simmons in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. The following year, she played the female lead roles in films Report to the Commissioner alongside Michael Moriarty, and Capone opposite Ben Gazzara. Blakely gained wide critical acclaim with her leading role in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. For her performance, Blakely won that year's Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She earned a second Emmy Award nomination the following year when she reprised her role in Rich Man, Poor Man Book II. After her television success, she played leading roles in two movies in 1979: the disaster film The Concorde ... Airport '79 opposite Alain Delon, and the sport drama Dreamer with Tim Matheson. During 1980s and 1990s, Blakely played leading roles in many made-for-television movies. She portrayed Frances Farmer in the 1982 film based on Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning?, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. She played Eva Braun opposite Anthony Hopkins in the Adolf Hitler biographical film The Bunker, and Joan Kennedy in The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story. She appeared in such feature films as Over the Top, My Mom's a Werewolf, and Hate Crime. She recently guest-starred on This Is Us and NCIS and in past years on Hotel, The Twilight Zone, Falcon Crest, Murder, She Wrote, Nip/Tuck, Brothers & Sisters, Southland, and Cougar Town. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Blakely, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Over the Top (1987)
as Christina Hawk
The Towering Inferno (1974)
as Patty
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 (2011)
as Vivian Ashe
The Way We Were (1973)
as Judianne
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
as Maggie Whelan
The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
as Jane Bradshaw
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
as Cherry Diamond
Hungry Hearts (2002)
as Barbi Harris
A Mother's Testimony (2001)
as Donna Mulroney
Shampoo (1975)
as Girl on Street (uncredited)
Co-ed Call Girl (1996)
as Teri Halbert
Capone (1975)
as Iris Crawford
Her Married Lover (1999)
as Laura Mannhart
Wildflower (1991)
as Ada Guthrie
And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
as Gail Bugliosi
Airports (2025)
Actor
April Morning (1988)
as Sarah Cooper
Crash Point Zero (2000)
as Barbara Esmond
The Bunker (1981)
as Eva Braun
The Incident (1990)
as Billie
My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)
as Leslie Shaber
Secrets (1977)
as Andrea Fleming
No Child of Mine (1993)
as Peggy Young
Chain of Command (2000)
as Meg Danforth
Report to the Commissioner (1975)
as Patty Butler
The Perfect Nanny (2000)
as Dr. Julia Bruning
Hate Crime (2005)
as Martha Boyd
Race Against Fear (1998)
as Margaret Carlyle
Grizzly Park (2008)
as Unhappy Camper
To Comfort You (2009)
as Angela
Savages (1972)
as Cecily, a Debutante
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1986)
as Joan Kennedy
Dead Reckoning (1990)
as Alex Barnard
Seven Sundays (1995)
as Alice
The Oklahoma City Dolls (1981)
as Sally Jo Purkey
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
as Billie Cobb
Annihilator (1986)
as Layla
Dreamer (1979)
as Karen Lee
A Cry for Love (1980)
as Polly Harris
Hiroshima Maiden (1988)
as Betty Bennett
International Airport (1985)
as Jeanne Roberts
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1990)
as Alice Lundgren
Blackmail (1991)
as Lucinda
The Perfect Neighbor (2005)
as Jeannie Costigan
The Genesis Code (2010)
as Beverly Truman
The Perfect Boyfriend (2013)
as Clara
Murder Times Seven (1990)
as Gert Kiley
Dad's A Dog (1990)
as Melody McBride
Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
as Frances Farmer
L.A. Twister (2004)
as Vivian
Make Me an Offer (1980)
as Joyce Windsor
Russian Holiday (1992)
as Susan Dennison
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
as Leslie Abramson
Broken Angel (1988)
as Catherine Coburn
Gut Feeling (1999)
Actor
The Survivalist (1987)
as Linda Ryan
Pride (2011)
as Theresa
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1987)
as Patricia Erdain
Torn Between Two Fathers (1989)
as Jennifer
Displacement (2016)
as Carol Sinclair
Remember to Breathe (2013)
as Kathleen
Ladykillers (1988)
as Lilah Corbett
Mating Dance (2008)
as Abby's mother
Stingray (1985)
as Evelyn Decter
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery (2008)
as Camilla Meera
Color Me Perfect (1996)
as Dr. Linda Ryan