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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.
Also known as: Susie Blakely
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1951–2025 · acting roles
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Self
1962
Dr. Cadence Darwin
2003
Angie
2003
Dr. Elaine York
1993
Gillian
1993
Anne
2016
Valerie Farrell
2003
Christina Hellinger
1984
Pauline Byrne
1984
Catherine Wayne
1984
Joyce Hacker
1984
Anne Bowen
1981
Mollie Felice (2006)
2003
Camille Cantrell
2000

Celia Calmartin
2006

Linda Wolfe (segment "The Card")
1985


Betsy
2009
Meredith Clancy
1993
Elizabeth Brown
1996
Melody
1983
Mrs. Madigan
2005
Linda Sherman
2009

Katherine McBain
2002
Tory Van Dyke / Markie James
1999
Jennifer Avery
1984
Julie Prescott
1976

Christina Hawk
1987
Judianne
1973
Sarah Cooper
1951
Vivian Ashe
2011
Patty
1974
Maggie Whelan
1979
Girl on Street (uncredited)
1975
Leigh Holland
1992
Gail Bugliosi
1991
Jane Bradshaw
1974
Marie Farrell
1986
Cherry Diamond
1989
Iris Crawford
1975
Eva Braun
1981
Leslie Shaber
1989
Alice Lundgren
1990
Patty Butler
1975
Teri Halbert
1996
Gail Bugliosi
1991


Donna Mulroney
2001
Barbara Esmond
2000
Peggy Young
1993Polly Harris
1980
Laura Mannhart
1999
Ada Guthrie
1991
Martha Boyd
2005
Leslie Abramson
1994
Billie Cobb
1992
Frances Farmer
1983
Alice
1995
Unhappy Camper
2008
Meg Danforth
2000
Beverly Truman
2010
Joan Kennedy
1986
Andrea Fleming
1977
Sarah Cooper
1988
Melody McBride
1990
Catherine Coburn
1988
Camilla Meera
2008
Joyce Windsor
1980
Billie
1990
Patricia Erdain
1987
Sally Jo Purkey
1981
Layla
1986
Evelyn Decter
1985
Barbi Harris
2002
Jeanne Roberts
1985
Gert Kiley
1990
Dr. Julia Bruning
2000
Clara
2013Jennifer
1989
Linda Ryan
1987
Lilah Corbett
1988
Jeannie Costigan
2005

Karen Lee
1979
Carol Sinclair
2016
Cecily, a Debutante
1972
Vivian
2004
Betty Bennett
1988
Lucinda
1991
Kathleen
2013
Abby's mother
2008
Dr. Linda Ryan
1996
Alex Barnard
1990
Margaret Carlyle
1998
Angela
2009
Theresa
2011
Susan Dennison
1992