Susan Blakely
Born September 07, 1948 (Age: 77)
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Frankfurt, Germany
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.
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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Filmography
Pride
2011
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as Theresa
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Age: 63
To Comfort You
2009
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as Angela
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Age: 61
Hate Crime
2005
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as Martha Boyd
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Age: 56
L.A. Twister
2004
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as Vivian
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Age: 55
Hungry Hearts
2002
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as Barbi Harris
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Age: 54
Crash Point Zero
2000
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as Barbara Esmond
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Age: 52
Chain of Command
2000
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as Meg Danforth
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Age: 51
The Perfect Nanny
2000
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as Dr. Julia Bruning
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Age: 51
Gut Feeling
1999
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as
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Age: 50
Race Against Fear
1998
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as Margaret Carlyle
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Age: 50
Color Me Perfect
1996
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as Dr. Linda Ryan
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Age: 48
Co-ed Call Girl
1996
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as Teri Halbert
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Age: 47
No Child of Mine
1993
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as Peggy Young
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Age: 45
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1992
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as Billie Cobb
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Age: 43
Russian Holiday
1992
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as Susan Dennison
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Age: 43
Wildflower
1991
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as Ada Guthrie
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Age: 43
Blackmail
1991
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as Lucinda
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Age: 43
And the Sea Will Tell
1991
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as Gail Bugliosi
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Age: 42
Murder Times Seven
1990
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as Gert Kiley
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Age: 42
Dad's A Dog
1990
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as Melody McBride
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Age: 41
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
1990
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as Alice Lundgren
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Age: 41
Dead Reckoning
1990
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as Alex Barnard
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Age: 41
The Incident
1990
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as Billie
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Age: 41
My Mom's a Werewolf
1989
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as Leslie Shaber
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Age: 40
No Image
Torn Between Two Fathers
1989
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as Jennifer
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Age: 40
Dream a Little Dream
1989
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as Cherry Diamond
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Age: 40
Ladykillers
1988
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as Lilah Corbett
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Age: 40
Hiroshima Maiden
1988
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as Betty Bennett
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Age: 39
April Morning
1988
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as Sarah Cooper
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Age: 39
Broken Angel
1988
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as Catherine Coburn
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Age: 39
Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
1987
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as Patricia Erdain
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Age: 39
Over the Top
1987
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as Christina Hawk
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Age: 38
The Survivalist
1987
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as Linda Ryan
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Age: 38
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
1986
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as Joan Kennedy
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Age: 38
Stingray
1985
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as Evelyn Decter
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Age: 36
International Airport
1985
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as Jeanne Roberts
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Age: 36
The Bunker
1981
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as Eva Braun
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Age: 32
The Oklahoma City Dolls
1981
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as Sally Jo Purkey
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Age: 32
No Image
A Cry for Love
1980
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as Polly Harris
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Age: 32
Make Me an Offer
1980
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as Joyce Windsor
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Age: 31
The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
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as Maggie Whelan
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Age: 30
Secrets
1977
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as Andrea Fleming
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Age: 28
Capone
1975
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as Iris Crawford
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Age: 26
Shampoo
1975
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as Girl on Street (uncredited)
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Age: 26
The Towering Inferno
1974
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as Patty
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Age: 26
The Lords of Flatbush
1974
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as Jane Bradshaw
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Age: 25
The Way We Were
1973
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as Judianne
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Age: 25
Savages
1972
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as Cecily, a Debutante
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Age: 23