Susan Blakely

Susan Blakely

Birthday: 1948-09-07

Place of birth: Frankfurt, Germany

Also known as: Susie Blakely

imdb_id: nm0086806

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.

Played in movies:

The Towering Inferno

Score: 7.0

Seven Sundays

Score: 7.0

Hiroshima Maiden

Score: 7.0

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Score: 7.0

Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery

Score: 7.0

The Way We Were

Score: 6.9

The Perfect Nanny

Score: 6.8

Report to the Commissioner

Score: 6.8

Mating Dance

Score: 6.6

The Incident

Score: 6.6

Blood & Orchids

Score: 6.5

Hungry Hearts

Score: 6.5

Over the Top

Score: 6.4

And the Sea Will Tell

Score: 6.4

The Bunker

Score: 6.3

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

Score: 6.0

Stingray

Score: 6.0

Shampoo

Score: 6.0

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

Score: 5.9

Capone

Score: 5.9

The Perfect Neighbor

Score: 5.9

Hate Crime

Score: 5.9

Dream a Little Dream

Score: 5.8

Wildflower

Score: 5.8

April Morning

Score: 5.8

Race Against Fear

Score: 5.7

The Lords of Flatbush

Score: 5.7

No Child of Mine

Score: 5.5

Chain of Command

Score: 5.4

Broken Angel

Score: 5.3

Dreamer

Score: 5.3

Displacement

Score: 5.2

Annihilator

Score: 5.1

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

Score: 5.0

Savages

Score: 5.0

Color Me Perfect

Score: 5.0

International Airport

Score: 5.0

Dead Reckoning

Score: 5.0

A Mother's Testimony

Score: 5.0

The Concorde... Airport '79

Score: 4.7

L.A. Twister

Score: 4.7

My Mom's a Werewolf

Score: 4.7

Co-ed Call Girl

Score: 4.6

Make Me an Offer

Score: 4.5

Grizzly Park

Score: 4.5

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Score: 4.0

Russian Holiday

Score: 4.0

Crash Point Zero

Score: 3.8

The Perfect Boyfriend

Score: 3.6

Blackmail

Score: 3.6

Her Married Lover

Score: 3.2

Ladykillers

Score: 3.0

Remember to Breathe

Score: 3.0

The Genesis Code

Score: 2.6

The Survivalist

Score: 2.4

Pride

Score: 2.0

To Comfort You

Score: 1.0

The Oklahoma City Dolls

Score: 1.0

Murder Times Seven

Score: 0.0

Secrets

Score: 0.0

A Cry for Love

Score: 0.0

Torn Between Two Fathers

Score: 0.0

Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery

Score: 0.0

Gut Feeling

Score: 0.0

The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

This Is Us

Score: 8.2

Southland

Score: 7.9

Rich Man, Poor Man

Score: 7.8

Cold Case

Score: 7.8

Step by Step

Score: 7.7

The Twilight Zone

Score: 7.7

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

Score: 7.6

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

Murder, She Wrote

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Two and a Half Men

Score: 7.5

She Spies

Score: 7.4

Stingray

Score: 7.2

Nip/Tuck

Score: 7.2

Brothers and Sisters

Score: 7.1

Strong Medicine

Score: 7.1

Diagnosis: Murder

Score: 7.1

Diagnosis: Murder

Score: 7.1

Walker, Texas Ranger

Score: 7.0

Hotel

Score: 6.8

Intruders

Score: 6.7

Blood & Orchids

Score: 6.5

Cougar Town

Score: 6.4

7th Heaven

Score: 6.4

The Hitchhiker

Score: 6.1

Jake and the Fatman

Score: 6.0

Baywatch

Score: 5.9

Finder of Lost Loves

Score: 5.7

Falcon Crest

Score: 5.5

Twice in a Lifetime

Score: 5.5

Eddie Dodd

Score: 0.0