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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Frankfurt, Germany, 1948-09-07

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Savages	Cecily, a Debutante	50
2	1973	The Way We Were	Judianne	69
3	1974	The Lords of Flatbush	Jane Bradshaw	57
4	1974	The Towering Inferno	Patty	70
5	1975	Report to the Commissioner	Patty Butler	66
6	1975	Shampoo	Girl on Street (uncredited)	60
7	1975	Capone	Iris Crawford	59
8	1977	Secrets	Andrea Fleming	0
9	1979	Dreamer	Karen Lee	53
10	1979	The Concorde... Airport '79	Maggie Whelan	47
11	1980	Make Me an Offer	Joyce Windsor	45
12	1980	A Cry for Love	Polly Harris	0
13	1981	The Oklahoma City Dolls	Sally Jo Purkey	10
14	1981	The Bunker	Eva Braun	62
15	1983	Will There Really Be a Morning?	Frances Farmer	70
16	1985	International Airport	Jeanne Roberts	50
17	1985	Stingray	Evelyn Decter	60
18	1986	Blood & Orchids	Marie Farrell	65
19	1986	Annihilator	Layla	50
20	1986	The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story	Joan Kennedy	0
21	1987	The Survivalist	Linda Ryan	24
22	1987	Over the Top	Christina Hawk	64
23	1987	Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery	Patricia Erdain	0
24	1988	Broken Angel	Catherine Coburn	65
25	1988	April Morning	Sarah Cooper	57
26	1988	Hiroshima Maiden	Betty Bennett	70
27	1988	Ladykillers	Lilah Corbett	25
28	1989	Dream a Little Dream	Cherry Diamond	58
29	1989	Torn Between Two Fathers	Jennifer	0
30	1989	My Mom's a Werewolf	Leslie Shaber	46
31	1990	The Incident	Billie	61
32	1990	Dead Reckoning	Alex Barnard	30
33	1990	Out of Sight, Out of Mind	Alice Lundgren	37
34	1990	Murder Times Seven	Gert Kiley	0
35	1991	And the Sea Will Tell	Gail Bugliosi	64
36	1991	Blackmail	Lucinda	36
37	1991	Wildflower	Ada Guthrie	59
38	1992	Russian Holiday	Susan Dennison	40
39	1992	Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore	Billie Cobb	58
40	1993	No Child of Mine	Peggy Young	55
41	1994	Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders	Leslie Abramson	75
42	1995	Seven Sundays	Alice	70
43	1996	Co-ed Call Girl	Teri Halbert	46
44	1996	Color Me Perfect	Dr. Linda Ryan	50
45	1998	Race Against Fear	Margaret Carlyle	59
46	1999	Gut Feeling		0
47	1999	Her Married Lover	Laura Mannhart	28
48	2000	The Perfect Nanny	Dr. Julia Bruning	61
49	2000	Chain of Command	Meg Danforth	54
50	2000	Crash Point Zero	Barbara Esmond	38
51	2001	A Mother's Testimony	Donna Mulroney	50
52	2002	Hungry Hearts	Barbi Harris	65
53	2004	L.A. Twister	Vivian	47
54	2005	Hate Crime	Martha Boyd	58
55	2005	The Perfect Neighbor	Jeannie Costigan	53
56	2008	Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery	Camilla Meera	70
57	2008	Grizzly Park	Unhappy Camper	46
58	2008	Mating Dance	Abby's mother	57
59	2009	To Comfort You	Angela	10
60	2010	The Genesis Code	Beverly Truman	26
61	2011	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2	Vivian Ashe	59
62	2011	Pride	Theresa	20
63	2013	Remember to Breathe	Kathleen	30
64	2013	The Perfect Boyfriend	Clara	49
65	2016	Displacement	Carol Sinclair	50

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Sarah Cooper	86
2	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
3	1976	Rich Man, Poor Man	Julie Prescott	78
4	1981	Falcon Crest	Anne Bowen	55
5	1982	Hotel		68
6	1983	The Hitchhiker	Melody	61
7	1984	Finder of Lost Loves	Jennifer Avery	57
8	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Christina Hellinger	75
9	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Pauline Byrne	75
10	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Catherine Wayne	75
11	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Joyce Hacker	75
12	1985	Stingray		72
13	1985	The Twilight Zone	Linda Wolfe (segment "The Card")	78
14	1986	Blood & Orchids	Marie Farrell	65
15	1987	Jake and the Fatman		60
16	1989	Baywatch		60
17	1991	Eddie Dodd		0
18	1991	Step by Step		77
19	1992	Intruders	Leigh Holland	67
20	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Meredith Clancy	70
21	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Dr. Elaine York	71
22	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Gillian	71
23	1996	7th Heaven	Elizabeth Brown	64
24	1999	Twice in a Lifetime	Tory Van Dyke / Markie James	55
25	2000	Strong Medicine	Camille Cantrell	71
26	2002	She Spies	Katherine McBain	74
27	2003	Nip/Tuck		72
28	2003	Two and a Half Men	Angie	75
29	2003	Cold Case	Mollie Felice (2006)	78
30	2005	The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	Mrs. Madigan	76
31	2006	Brothers and Sisters	Celia Calmartin	71
32	2009	Southland		79
33	2009	Cougar Town	Betsy	64
34	2016	This Is Us	Anne	82