Susan Blakely
Acting • Born 1948-09-07
Biography
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.
Filmography
102 credits
My Mom's a Werewolf
Movie • 1989
Leslie Shaber
L.A. Twister
Movie • 2004
Vivian
The Towering Inferno
Movie • 1974
Patty
Wildflower
Movie • 1991
Ada Guthrie
Hate Crime
Movie • 2005
Martha Boyd
The Bunker
Movie • 1981
Eva Braun
The Concorde... Airport '79
Movie • 1979
Maggie Whelan
Report to the Commissioner
Movie • 1975
Patty Butler
The Perfect Neighbor
Movie • 2005
Jeannie Costigan
The Lords of Flatbush
Movie • 1974
Jane Bradshaw
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Movie • 1986
Joan Kennedy
Grizzly Park
Movie • 2008
Unhappy Camper
Capone
Movie • 1975
Iris Crawford
Crash Point Zero
Movie • 2000
Barbara Esmond
Co-ed Call Girl
Movie • 1996
Teri Halbert
A Mother's Testimony
Movie • 2001
Donna Mulroney
April Morning
Movie • 1988
Sarah Cooper
Gut Feeling
Movie • 1999
The Incident
Movie • 1990
Billie
Race Against Fear
Movie • 1998
Margaret Carlyle
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
Movie • 2008
Camilla Meera
Russian Holiday
Movie • 1992
Susan Dennison
Annihilator
Movie • 1986
Layla
Dreamer
Movie • 1979
Karen Lee
Blackmail
Movie • 1991
Lucinda
Dead Reckoning
Movie • 1990
Alex Barnard
Will There Really Be a Morning?
Movie • 1983
Frances Farmer
The Survivalist
Movie • 1987
Linda Ryan
Hungry Hearts
Movie • 2002
Barbi Harris
The Perfect Boyfriend
Movie • 2013
Clara
Dream a Little Dream
Movie • 1989
Cherry Diamond
And the Sea Will Tell
Movie • 1991
Gail Bugliosi
The Way We Were
Movie • 1973
Judianne
International Airport
Movie • 1985
Jeanne Roberts
Shampoo
Movie • 1975
Girl on Street (uncredited)
Make Me an Offer
Movie • 1980
Joyce Windsor
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
Movie • 1987
Patricia Erdain
Color Me Perfect
Movie • 1996
Dr. Linda Ryan
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Movie • 1990
Alice Lundgren
Hiroshima Maiden
Movie • 1988
Betty Bennett
Broken Angel
Movie • 1988
Catherine Coburn
Remember to Breathe
Movie • 2013
Kathleen
Ladykillers
Movie • 1988
Lilah Corbett
Displacement
Movie • 2016
Carol Sinclair
Savages
Movie • 1972
Cecily, a Debutante
Torn Between Two Fathers
Movie • 1989
Jennifer
The Genesis Code
Movie • 2010
Beverly Truman
The Perfect Nanny
Movie • 2000
Dr. Julia Bruning
Stingray
Movie • 1985
Evelyn Decter
A Cry for Love
Movie • 1980
Polly Harris
Her Married Lover
Movie • 1999
Laura Mannhart
The Oklahoma City Dolls
Movie • 1981
Sally Jo Purkey
Secrets
Movie • 1977
Andrea Fleming
Seven Sundays
Movie • 1995
Alice
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Movie • 1994
Leslie Abramson
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Movie • 2011
Vivian Ashe
Over the Top
Movie • 1987
Christina Hawk
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Movie • 1992
Billie Cobb
Murder Times Seven
Movie • 1990
Gert Kiley
Mating Dance
Movie • 2008
Abby's mother
No Child of Mine
Movie • 1993
Peggy Young
Pride
Movie • 2011
Theresa
Chain of Command
Movie • 2000
Meg Danforth
To Comfort You
Movie • 2009
Angela
Dad's A Dog
Movie • 1990
Melody McBride
Airports
Movie • 2025
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Christina Hellinger
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
Linda Wolfe (segment "The Card")
Cold Case
TV • 2003
Mollie Felice (2006)
Two and a Half Men
TV • 2003
Angie
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Valerie Farrell
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV • 1993
Meredith Clancy
Hotel
TV • 1982
Step by Step
TV • 1991
Jake and the Fatman
TV • 1987
Stingray
TV • 1985
Baywatch
TV • 1989
7th Heaven
TV • 1996
Elizabeth Brown
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Sarah Cooper
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Dr. Elaine York
Twice in a Lifetime
TV • 1999
Tory Van Dyke / Markie James
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Melody
Rich Man, Poor Man
TV • 1976
Julie Prescott
Southland
TV • 2009
Linda Sherman
Eddie Dodd
TV • 1991
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Gillian
Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
Celia Calmartin
Intruders
TV • 1992
Leigh Holland
This Is Us
TV • 2016
Anne
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
TV • 2005
Mrs. Madigan
Finder of Lost Loves
TV • 1984
Jennifer Avery
Cougar Town
TV • 2009
Betsy
Strong Medicine
TV • 2000
Camille Cantrell
Blood & Orchids
TV • 1986
Marie Farrell
She Spies
TV • 2002
Katherine McBain
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Pauline Byrne
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Catherine Wayne
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Joyce Hacker
Falcon Crest
TV • 1981
Anne Bowen
NCIS
TV • 2003
Dr. Cadence Darwin
Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood
TV • 1989