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
The Towering Inferno (1974)
as Patty
Over the Top (1987)
as Christina Hawk
The Way We Were (1973)
as Judianne
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 (2011)
as Vivian Ashe
Shampoo (1975)
as Girl on Street (uncredited)
Airports (2025)
Actor
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
as Maggie Whelan
My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)
as Leslie Shaber
Hungry Hearts (2002)
as Barbi Harris
Her Married Lover (1999)
as Laura Mannhart
The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
as Jane Bradshaw
Capone (1975)
as Iris Crawford
Dream a Little Dream (1989)
as Cherry Diamond
Secrets (1977)
as Andrea Fleming
Report to the Commissioner (1975)
as Patty Butler
Wildflower (1991)
as Ada Guthrie
Co-ed Call Girl (1996)
as Teri Halbert
The Bunker (1981)
as Eva Braun
And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
as Gail Bugliosi
Crash Point Zero (2000)
as Barbara Esmond
No Child of Mine (1993)
as Peggy Young
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
as Leslie Abramson
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1990)
as Alice Lundgren
Grizzly Park (2008)
as Unhappy Camper
Annihilator (1986)
as Layla
Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery (2008)
as Camilla Meera
April Morning (1988)
as Sarah Cooper
The Incident (1990)
as Billie
The Perfect Neighbor (2005)
as Jeannie Costigan
Chain of Command (2000)
as Meg Danforth
Dreamer (1979)
as Karen Lee
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery (1987)
as Patricia Erdain
Color Me Perfect (1996)
as Dr. Linda Ryan
Hate Crime (2005)
as Martha Boyd
Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
as Frances Farmer
A Mother's Testimony (2001)
as Donna Mulroney
Blackmail (1991)
as Lucinda
Savages (1972)
as Cecily, a Debutante
The Survivalist (1987)
as Linda Ryan
Displacement (2016)
as Carol Sinclair
The Genesis Code (2010)
as Beverly Truman
The Perfect Nanny (2000)
as Dr. Julia Bruning
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1986)
as Joan Kennedy
Remember to Breathe (2013)
as Kathleen
Hiroshima Maiden (1988)
as Betty Bennett
To Comfort You (2009)
as Angela
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
as Billie Cobb
Seven Sundays (1995)
as Alice
A Cry for Love (1980)
as Polly Harris
Stingray (1985)
as Evelyn Decter
Make Me an Offer (1980)
as Joyce Windsor
Dad's A Dog (1990)
as Melody McBride
Ladykillers (1988)
as Lilah Corbett
Murder Times Seven (1990)
as Gert Kiley
L.A. Twister (2004)
as Vivian
International Airport (1985)
as Jeanne Roberts
The Oklahoma City Dolls (1981)
as Sally Jo Purkey
Dead Reckoning (1990)
as Alex Barnard
The Perfect Boyfriend (2013)
as Clara
Broken Angel (1988)
as Catherine Coburn
Torn Between Two Fathers (1989)
as Jennifer
Pride (2011)
as Theresa
Gut Feeling (1999)
Actor
Race Against Fear (1998)
as Margaret Carlyle
Mating Dance (2008)
as Abby's mother
Russian Holiday (1992)
as Susan Dennison