Biography
Cute as a button and with a petite, porcelain prettiness and vulnerability that endeared her to the American public, Sally Struthers nabbed a series role in the early 1970s and became a solid part of TV history as a member of a dysfunctional family quartet in the milestone sitcom, "All in the Family" (1971). She was born Sally Ann Struthers on July 28, 1948, in Portland, Oregon and raised there, pursuing an acting career following high school. Relocating to Los Angeles, she trained at the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts and earned a scholarship as its "most promising student". She performed briefly in regional stock plays until finding her break as both a commercial actress and dancer on TV. She appeared as a regular on such variety shows as "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (1967) and "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour" (1970) and showed starlet promise in films, as well as offering ditsy support in the Jack Nicholson starrer, Five Easy Pieces (1970), and the chase film, The Getaway (1972), top-lining Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. And, then came "All in the Family" (1971). Also starring Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton and Rob Reiner, Struthers went on to win two supporting Emmy Awards as Kewpie-doll "Gloria Bunker Stivic". She and Rob Reiner left the show after seven seasons, both eager to grow. While Rob Reiner became a noted director, Sally made her Broadway debut in "Wally's Cafe" in 1981, and returned, four years later, with a gender-bending version of "The Odd Couple" as neat-freak "Florence" opposite Rita Moreno's slovenly "Olive". In addition, she found work in topical mini-series drama with Aloha Means Goodbye (1974) (TV), Hey, I'm Alive (1975) (TV), My Husband Is Missing (1978) (TV), ...And Your Name Is Jonah (1979) (TV), A Gun in the House (1981) (TV), to name a few. But without a hit show as collateral, offers started drying up. Sally returned to the TV series fold in the early 1980s spinning off her "Gloria" character with the self-titled sitcom, "Gloria" (1982), but the ensemble formula that worked so well for her before was missing here and the show died in its freshman year. To compensate, however, Sally's baby-doll voice worked extremely well for her in cartoons. She remained active off-camera, providing little girl voices for Saturday morning entertainment, notably her teenage "Pebbles Flintstone" character. Other voice-over work included "TaleSpin" (1990), as "Rebecca 'Becky' Cunningham", and puppeteer Jim Henson's creative prehistoric sitcom, "Dinosaurs" (1991), playing dino-daughter "Charlene Sinclair". IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net
Filmography
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TV Shows 35
Movies 34
self 12
Voice 7
Narrator 1
eVil Sublet (2023)
Christmas Harmony (2018)
Summer Camp Island (2018)
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting (2018)
You & Me (2018)
The Relationtrip (2017)
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016)
The Last Laugh (2016)
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical (2014)
Celebrity Ghost Stories (2009)
Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family" (2009)
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air (2009)
What I Did for Love (2006)
American Dad! (2005)
Baadasssss! (2004)
Best Week Ever (2004)
Reeseville (2003)
Still Standing (2002)
A Month of Sundays (2001)
Out of the Black (2001)
The Division (2001)
As Told by Ginger (2000)
Gilmore Girls (2000)
The Wild Thornberrys (1998)
The Others (1997)
Cow and Chicken (1997)
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996)
Duckman (1994)
In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)
The Tin Soldier (1992)
Dinosaurs (1991)
TaleSpin (1990)
Talespin: Plunder & Lightning (1990)
A Deadly Silence (1989)
The GLO Friends Save Christmas (1985)
Charles in Charge (1984)
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
The Charmkins (1983)
This Is Your Life (1983)
Gloria (1982)
Nine to Five (1982)
A Gun in the House (1981)
Marie (1980)
...And Your Name Is Jonah (1979)
My Husband Is Missing (1978)
A Different Approach (1978)
Intimate Strangers (1977)
Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977)
The Great Houdinis (1976)
Hey, I'm Alive (1975)
Dinah! (1974)
Aloha Means Goodbye (1974)
The Getaway (1972)
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971)
All in the Family (1971)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The Phynx (1970)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
The Carol Burnett Show (1967)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967)
Ironside (1967)
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Betsy's Kindergarten Adventures
Very Frightening Tales
A Classic Spy
I Brake for Caterpillars
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1947-07-28 (76 years old)
Birth PlacePortland, United States of America
RelationshipsWilliam C. Rader (1977-12-18 - 1983-01-18)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsSally Ann Struthers, Sally Anne Struthers
AwardsOvation Awards, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
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