Susan Blakely
Age: 75 | From: Frankfurt, Germany
Person Details
Birthday: 1948-09-07 12:13:11
Aliases: Susie Blakely
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Frankfurt, Germany
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Movie Involvements: 49
TV Involvements: 14
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Murder, She Wrote
(1984) Christina Hellinger
Cold Case
(2003) Mollie Felice (2006)
Walker, Texas Ranger
(1993) Meredith Clancy
Diagnosis: Murder
(1993) Gillian
The Twilight Zone
(1985) Linda Wolfe
Brothers and Sisters
(2006) Celia Calmartin
Over the Top
(1987) Christina Hawk
7th Heaven
(1996) Elizabeth BrownActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Anne | |
| Carol Sinclair | ||
| 2013 | Clara | |
| 2011 | Theresa | |
| Vivian Ashe | ||
| 2009 | N/A | |
| 2008 | Abby's mother | |
| Unhappy Camper | ||
| Camilla Meera | ||
| 2006 | Celia Calmartin | |
| 2005 | Jeannie Costigan | |
| Mrs. Madigan | ||
| Martha Boyd | ||
| 2004 | Vivian | |
| 2003 | Mollie Felice (2006) | |
| Angie | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2002 | Barbi Harris | |
| Katherine McBain | ||
| 2001 | Donna Mulroney | |
| 2000 | Barbara Esmond | |
| Meg Danforth | ||
| Dr. Julia Bruning | ||
| 1999 | Laura Mannhart | |
| N/A | ||
| 1998 | Margaret Carlyle | |
| 1996 | Dr. Linda Ryan | |
| Elizabeth Brown | ||
| Teri Halbert | ||
| 1995 | Alice | |
| 1994 | Leslie Abramson | |
| 1993 | Peggy Young | |
| Gillian | ||
| Dr. Elaine York | ||
| Meredith Clancy | ||
| 1992 | Leigh Holland | |
| Billie Cobb | ||
| Susan Dennison | ||
| 1991 | Ada Guthrie | |
| Lucinda | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Gail Bugliosi | ||
| 1990 | Gert Kiley | |
| Alice Lundgren | ||
| Alex Barnard | ||
| Billie | ||
| 1989 | Leslie Shaber | |
| N/A | ||
| Cherry Diamond | ||
| 1988 | Betty Bennett | |
| Sarah Cooper | ||
| Lilah Corbett | ||
| Catherine Coburn | ||
| 1987 | Patricia Erdain | |
| N/A | ||
| Christina Hawk | ||
| Linda Ryan | ||
| 1986 | Joan Kennedy | |
| Layla | ||
| Marie Farrell | ||
| Marie Farrell | ||
| 1985 | Linda Wolfe | |
| Evelyn Decter | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jeanne Roberts | ||
| 1984 | Christina Hellinger | |
| Jennifer Avery | ||
| 1983 | Melody | |
| Frances Farmer | ||
| 1982 | N/A | |
| 1981 | Eva Braun | |
| Sally Jo Purkey | ||
| 1980 | Polly Harris | |
| Joyce Windsor | ||
| 1979 | Maggie Whelan | |
| Karen Lee | ||
| 1977 | Andrea Fleming | |
| 1976 | Julie Prescott | |
| 1975 | Iris Crawford | |
| Girl on Street (uncredited) | ||
| Patty Butler | ||
| 1974 | Patty | |
| Jane Bradshaw | ||
| 1973 | Judianne | |
| 1972 | Cecily, a Debutante | |
| 1951 | Sarah Cooper | |
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
