Susan Blakely
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.
Born: 07 September 1948
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This Is Us
Anne
Displacement
Carol Sinclair
The Perfect Boyfriend
Clara
Remember to Breathe
Kathleen
Pride
Theresa
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
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The Genesis Code
Beverly Truman
Cougar Town
Betsy
To Comfort You
Angela
Southland
Linda Sherman
Southland
Mating Dance
Abby's mother
Grizzly Park
Unhappy Camper
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
Camilla Meera
Brothers and Sisters
Celia Calmartin
The Perfect Neighbor
Jeannie Costigan
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
Mrs. Madigan
Hate Crime
Martha Boyd
L.A. Twister
Vivian
Cold Case
Mollie Felice (2006)
NCIS
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Two and a Half Men
Angie
Nip/Tuck
Valerie Farrell
Hungry Hearts
Barbi Harris
She Spies
Katherine McBain
A Mother's Testimony
Donna Mulroney
Crash Point Zero
Barbara Esmond
Strong Medicine
Camille Cantrell
Chain of Command
Meg Danforth
The Perfect Nanny
Dr. Julia Bruning
Her Married Lover
Laura Mannhart
Twice in a Lifetime
Tory Van Dyke / Markie James
Gut Feeling
Race Against Fear
Margaret Carlyle
Color Me Perfect
Dr. Linda Ryan
7th Heaven
Elizabeth Brown
Co-ed Call Girl
Teri Halbert
Seven Sundays
Alice
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Leslie Abramson
No Child of Mine
Peggy Young
Diagnosis: Murder
Dr. Elaine York
Diagnosis: Murder
Gillian
Walker, Texas Ranger
Meredith Clancy
Intruders
Leigh Holland
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Billie Cobb
Russian Holiday
Susan Dennison
Wildflower
Ada Guthrie
Blackmail
Lucinda
Step by Step
Eddie Dodd
And the Sea Will Tell
Gail Bugliosi
And the Sea Will Tell
Gail Bugliosi
Murder Times Seven
Gert Kiley
Dad's A Dog
Melody McBride
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Alice Lundgren
Dead Reckoning
Alex Barnard
The Incident
Billie
My Mom's a Werewolf
Leslie Shaber
Baywatch
Torn Between Two Fathers
Jennifer
Dream a Little Dream
Cherry Diamond
Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
Ladykillers
Lilah Corbett
Hiroshima Maiden
Betty Bennett
April Morning
Sarah Cooper
Broken Angel
Catherine Coburn
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
Patricia Erdain
Jake and the Fatman
Over the Top
Christina Hawk
The Survivalist
Linda Ryan
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Joan Kennedy
Annihilator
Layla
Blood & Orchids
Marie Farrell
The Twilight Zone
Linda Wolfe (segment "The Card")
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Evelyn Decter
Stingray
International Airport
Jeanne Roberts
Murder, She Wrote
Christina Hellinger
Murder, She Wrote
Pauline Byrne
Murder, She Wrote
Catherine Wayne
Murder, She Wrote
Joyce Hacker
Finder of Lost Loves
Jennifer Avery
The Hitchhiker
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
Frances Farmer
Hotel
Falcon Crest
Anne Bowen
The Bunker
Eva Braun
The Oklahoma City Dolls
Sally Jo Purkey
A Cry for Love
Polly Harris
Make Me an Offer
Joyce Windsor
The Concorde... Airport '79
Maggie Whelan
Dreamer
Karen Lee
Secrets
Andrea Fleming
Rich Man, Poor Man
Julie Prescott
Capone
Iris Crawford
Shampoo
Girl on Street (uncredited)
Report to the Commissioner
Patty Butler
The Towering Inferno
Patty
The Lords of Flatbush
Jane Bradshaw
The Way We Were
Judianne
Savages
Cecily, a Debutante
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sarah Cooper