Susan Blakely

Known for ActingBorn 1948-09-07 (age 77)Frankfurt, Germany

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Gut Feeling

A Cry for Love

Dad's A Dog

This Is Us

Hungry Hearts

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Southland

Stingray

Cold Case

She Spies

Rich Man, Poor Man

Step by Step

NCIS

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

The Twilight Zone

Seven Sundays

Two and a Half Men

Strong Medicine

Hiroshima Maiden

Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery

Murder, She Wrote

Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders

Nip/Tuck

Brothers and Sisters

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Blood & Orchids

Stingray

Diagnosis: Murder

Walker, Texas Ranger

Murder Times Seven

Intruders

The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery

Secrets

The Towering Inferno

The Way We Were

Hotel

Race Against Fear

Finder of Lost Loves

Cougar Town

Color Me Perfect

Broken Angel

The Incident

7th Heaven

Report to the Commissioner

Over the Top

Twice in a Lifetime