Acting · Frankfurt, Germany · Born September 7, 1948
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.
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2016
as Anne
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2016
as Carol Sinclair
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2013
as Clara
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2013
as Kathleen
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2011
as Theresa
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2011
as Vivian Ashe
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2010
as Beverly Truman
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2009
as Betsy
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as Angela
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2009
as Linda Sherman
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2008
as Abby's mother
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as Unhappy Camper
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as Camilla Meera
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2006
as Celia Calmartin
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2005
as Jeannie Costigan
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2005
as Mrs. Madigan
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2005
as Martha Boyd
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2004
as Vivian
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2003
as Mollie Felice (2006)
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2003
as Dr. Cadence Darwin
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2003
as Angie
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2003
as Valerie Farrell
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2002
as Barbi Harris
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2002
as Katherine McBain
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2001
as Donna Mulroney
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2000
as Barbara Esmond
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2000
as Camille Cantrell
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2000
as Meg Danforth
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2000
as Dr. Julia Bruning
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1999
as Laura Mannhart
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1999
as Tory Van Dyke / Markie James
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1999
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1998
as Margaret Carlyle
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1996
as Dr. Linda Ryan
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1996
as Elizabeth Brown
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1996
as Teri Halbert
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1995
as Alice
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as Leslie Abramson
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1993
as Peggy Young
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1993
as Dr. Elaine York
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1993
as Meredith Clancy
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1992
as Leigh Holland
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1992
as Billie Cobb
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1992
as Susan Dennison
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1991
as Ada Guthrie
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1991
as Lucinda
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1991
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1991
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1991
as Gail Bugliosi
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1991
as Gail Bugliosi
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1990
as Gert Kiley
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1990
as Melody McBride
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1990
as Alice Lundgren
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1990
as Alex Barnard
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as Billie
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1989
as Leslie Shaber
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1989
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1989
as Jennifer
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1989
as Cherry Diamond
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1989
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1988
as Lilah Corbett
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1988
as Betty Bennett
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as Sarah Cooper
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1988
as Catherine Coburn
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as Patricia Erdain
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as Christina Hawk
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1987
as Linda Ryan
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1986
as Joan Kennedy
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1986
as Layla
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1986
as Marie Farrell
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1985
as Linda Wolfe (segment "The Card")
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1985
as Evelyn Decter
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1985
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1985
as Jeanne Roberts
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1984
as Christina Hellinger
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1984
as Jennifer Avery
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1983
as Melody
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1983
as Frances Farmer
TVHotel
1982
TVFalcon Crest
1981
as Anne Bowen
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1981
as Eva Braun
MovieThe Oklahoma City Dolls
1981
as Sally Jo Purkey
A Cry for Love
1980
as Polly Harris
MovieMake Me an Offer
1980
as Joyce Windsor
MovieThe Concorde... Airport '79
1979
as Maggie Whelan
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1979
as Karen Lee
MovieSecrets
1977
as Andrea Fleming
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1976
as Julie Prescott
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1975
as Iris Crawford
MovieShampoo
1975
as Girl on Street (uncredited)
MovieReport to the Commissioner
1975
as Patty Butler
MovieThe Towering Inferno
1974
as Patty
MovieThe Lords of Flatbush
1974
as Jane Bradshaw
MovieThe Way We Were
1973
as Judianne
MovieSavages
1972
as Cecily, a Debutante
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Sarah Cooper
