Sally Struthers
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
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · A Man on the Inside as Virginia Foldau
- 2023 · eVil Sublet as Reena
- 2023 · Very Frightening Tales as Lady Talia
- 2019 · Friendly Neighborhood Coven as Edie
- 2018 · Christmas Harmony as Shirley
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Rose (voice)
- 2018 · Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting as Lucy
- 2018 · You & Me as Tilly
- 2017 · The Relationtrip as Liam's Mom (voice)
- 2016 · Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life as Babette Dell
- 2016 · The Last Laugh as Self
- 2014 · Waiting in the Wings: The Musical as Lucy
- 2009 · Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
- 2009 · The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air as Self
- 2009 · Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family" as Self
- 2006 · What I Did for Love as Aunt Trudy
- 2005 · American Dad! as Clara (voice)
- 2004 · Baadasssss! as Roz
- 2004 · Best Week Ever as
- 2003 · Reeseville as Katie Oakman
- 2002 · Still Standing as
- 2001 · A Month of Sundays as Onida Roy
- 2001 · Out of the Black as Betty
- 2001 · The Division as
- 2000 · As Told by Ginger as Mrs. Higsby (voice)
- 2000 · Gilmore Girls as Babette Dell
- 1998 · The Wild Thornberrys as Penguin / Iguanas (voice)
- 1997 · The Others as Mrs. Zelov
- 1997 · Cow and Chicken as
- 1996 · Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Aunt Lorraine
- 1994 · Duckman as
- 1992 · In the Best Interest of the Children as Patty Pepper
- 1992 · The Tin Soldier as
- 1991 · Dinosaurs as Charlene Sinclair (voice)
- 1991 · All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special as
- 1990 · Tiny Toon Adventures as Rhoda's Mom (voice)
- 1990 · Tiny Toon Adventures as Sandy Witch (voice)
- 1990 · TaleSpin as Rebecca Cunningham (voice)
- 1990 · Tom & Jerry Kids Show as Jerry's Mother (voice)
- 1990 · Talespin: Plunder & Lightning as Rebecca Cunningham (voice)
- 1989 · A Deadly Silence as Aunt Marilyn
- 1985 · The GLO Friends Save Christmas as Blanche (voice)
- 1985 · Alice in Wonderland as Tiger Lily
- 1984 · Charles in Charge as Nora Bennington / Nancy Bowman
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Nancy La Rue
- 1983 · The Charmkins as Poison Ivy (voice)
- 1983 · This Is Your Life as Self
- 1983 · The Fairest of Them All as Self
- 1982 · Gloria as Gloria Stivic
- 1982 · 9 to 5 as Marsha McMurray Shrimpton
- 1981 · A Gun in the House as Emily Cates
- 1979 · ...And Your Name Is Jonah as Jenny Corelli
- 1978 · My Husband Is Missing as Katherine Eaton
- 1978 · A Different Approach as
- 1977 · Intimate Strangers as Janis Halston
- 1976 · The Great Houdinis as Bess Houdini
- 1975 · Hey, I'm Alive as Helen Klaben
- 1974 · Dinah! as Self
- 1974 · Aloha Means Goodbye as Sara Moore
- 1972 · The Getaway as Fran Clinton
- 1971 · The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show as Pebbles Flinstone
- 1971 · All in the Family as Gloria Stivic
- 1970 · Five Easy Pieces as Betty
- 1970 · The Phynx as World's No. 1 Fan
- 1969 · The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Katie O'Hara
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters
- 1967 · Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- 1967 · Ironside as
- 1967 · The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Hostess
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Future · I Brake for Caterpillars as Sister John Bosco