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 years 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 Farmers 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 Moms 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.

Movies unavailable from Susan Blakely

L.A. Twister

Vivian

Movie 2004

The Perfect Neighbor

Jeannie Costigan

Movie 2005

Co-ed Call Girl

Teri Halbert

Movie 1996

April Morning

Sarah Cooper

Movie 1988

Gut Feeling

Movie 1999

Russian Holiday

Susan Dennison

Movie 1992

Annihilator

Layla

Movie 1986

Dreamer

Karen Lee

Movie 1979

Dead Reckoning

Alex Barnard

Movie 1990

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Frances Farmer

Movie 1983

The Survivalist

Linda Ryan

Movie 1987

Hungry Hearts

Barbi Harris

Movie 2002

Dream a Little Dream

Cherry Diamond

Movie 1989

International Airport

Jeanne Roberts

Movie 1985

Shampoo

Girl on Street (uncredited)

Movie 1975

Make Me an Offer

Joyce Windsor

Movie 1980

Color Me Perfect

Dr. Linda Ryan

Movie 1996

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Alice Lundgren

Movie 1990

Hiroshima Maiden

Betty Bennett

Movie 1988

Broken Angel

Catherine Coburn

Movie 1988

Remember to Breathe

Kathleen

Movie 2013

Displacement

Carol Sinclair

Movie 2016

Savages

Cecily, a Debutante

Movie 1972

Torn Between Two Fathers

Jennifer

Movie 1989

The Perfect Nanny

Dr. Julia Bruning

Movie 2000

Stingray

Evelyn Decter

Movie 1985

A Cry for Love

Polly Harris

Movie 1980

Her Married Lover

Laura Mannhart

Movie 1999

The Oklahoma City Dolls

Sally Jo Purkey

Movie 1981

Secrets

Andrea Fleming

Movie 1977

Seven Sundays

Alice

Movie 1995

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

Leslie Abramson

Movie 1994

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

Vivian Ashe

Movie 2011

Murder Times Seven

Gert Kiley

Movie 1990

Mating Dance

Abby's mother

Movie 2008

No Child of Mine

Peggy Young

Movie 1993

Pride

Theresa

Movie 2011

Tv series unavailable from Susan Blakely

Murder, She Wrote

Christina Hellinger

Tv 1984

The Twilight Zone

Linda Wolfe

Tv 1985

Cold Case

Mollie Felice (2006)

Tv 2003

Nip/Tuck

Tv 2003

Walker, Texas Ranger

Meredith Clancy

Tv 1993

Hotel

Tv 1982

Step by Step

Tv 1991

Jake and the Fatman

Tv 1987

Stingray

Tv 1985

Baywatch

Tv 1989

7th Heaven

Elizabeth Brown

Tv 1996

Twice in a Lifetime

Tory Van Dyke / Markie James

Tv 1999

Southland

Tv 2009

Eddie Dodd

Tv 1991

Brothers and Sisters

Celia Calmartin

Tv 2006

Intruders

Leigh Holland

Tv 1992

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

Tv 1962

Finder of Lost Loves

Jennifer Avery

Tv 1984

Strong Medicine

Camille Cantrell

Tv 2000

Blood & Orchids

Marie Farrell

Tv 1986

Murder, She Wrote

Pauline Byrne

Tv 1984

She Spies

Katherine McBain

Tv 2002

Murder, She Wrote

Catherine Wayne

Tv 1984

Murder, She Wrote

Joyce Hacker

Tv 1984

Falcon Crest

Anne Bowen

Tv 1981