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Susan Blakely

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76 Years Old

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.

Born

Frankfurt, Germany on 7th September 1948

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Diagnosis: Murder
Gillian
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Diagnosis: Murder
Dr. Elaine York
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
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Two and a Half Men
Angie
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This Is Us
Anne
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Baywatch
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Hotel
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Nip/Tuck
Valerie Farrell
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Jake and the Fatman
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Cold Case
Mollie Felice (2006)
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Cougar Town
Betsy
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Murder, She Wrote
Joyce Hacker
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Murder, She Wrote
Catherine Wayne
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Murder, She Wrote
Pauline Byrne
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Murder, She Wrote
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Strong Medicine
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
Mrs. Madigan
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Walker, Texas Ranger
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The Twilight Zone
Linda Wolfe (segment "The Card")
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Step by Step
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Brothers and Sisters
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Rich Man, Poor Man
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She Spies
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Finder of Lost Loves
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Falcon Crest
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Southland
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
Sarah Cooper
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Twice in a Lifetime
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7th Heaven
Elizabeth Brown
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Stingray
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The Hitchhiker
Melody
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Over the Top
Christina Hawk
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Eddie Dodd
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The Towering Inferno
Patty
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Vivian Ashe
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The Way We Were
Judianne
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Shampoo
Girl on Street (uncredited)
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The Concorde... Airport '79
Maggie Whelan
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Intruders
Leigh Holland
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Blood & Orchids
Marie Farrell
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Hate Crime
Martha Boyd
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Displacement
Carol Sinclair
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The Bunker
Eva Braun
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Her Married Lover
Laura Mannhart
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Crash Point Zero
Barbara Esmond
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Wildflower
Ada Guthrie
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Capone
Iris Crawford
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
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The Lords of Flatbush
Jane Bradshaw
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Dream a Little Dream
Cherry Diamond
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My Mom's a Werewolf
Leslie Shaber
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Grizzly Park
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April Morning
Sarah Cooper
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
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Co-ed Call Girl
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Savages
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Report to the Commissioner
Patty Butler
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And the Sea Will Tell
Gail Bugliosi
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The Perfect Nanny
Dr. Julia Bruning
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A Mother's Testimony
Donna Mulroney
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Broken Angel
Catherine Coburn
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Annihilator
Layla
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The Perfect Neighbor
Jeannie Costigan
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Chain of Command
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Pride
Theresa
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Ladykillers
Lilah Corbett
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The Genesis Code
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Murder 101: The Locked Room Mystery
Camilla Meera
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No Child of Mine
Peggy Young
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Blood & Orchids
Marie Farrell
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Stingray
Evelyn Decter
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Russian Holiday
Susan Dennison
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Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
Patricia Erdain
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Dreamer
Karen Lee
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International Airport
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The Incident
Billie
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Blackmail
Lucinda
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The Perfect Boyfriend
Clara
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Seven Sundays
Alice
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The Survivalist
Linda Ryan
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Betty Bennett
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L.A. Twister
Vivian
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Make Me an Offer
Joyce Windsor
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Murder Times Seven
Gert Kiley
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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Leslie Abramson
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Hungry Hearts
Barbi Harris
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A Cry for Love
Polly Harris
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Will There Really Be a Morning?
Frances Farmer
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Mating Dance
Abby's mother
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Secrets
Andrea Fleming
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The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Joan Kennedy
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Race Against Fear
Margaret Carlyle
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Gut Feeling
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The Oklahoma City Dolls
Sally Jo Purkey
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Dead Reckoning
Alex Barnard
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Color Me Perfect
Dr. Linda Ryan
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Torn Between Two Fathers
Jennifer
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Remember to Breathe
Kathleen
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To Comfort You
Angela