
Sally Struthers
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
Acting (37 movies)

The Getaway
1972

Five Easy Pieces
1970

I Brake for Caterpillars
2024

The Phynx
1970

What I Did for Love
2006

The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
2009

Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"
2009

The Charmkins
1983

...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979

The GLO Friends Save Christmas
1985

The Last Laugh
2016

The Great Houdinis
1976

A Different Approach
1978

Intimate Strangers
1977

A Gun in the House
1981

Talespin: Plunder & Lightning
1990

My Husband Is Missing
1978

In the Best Interest of the Children
1992

eVil Sublet
2023

Very Frightening Tales
2023

The Tin Soldier
1992

The Fairest of Them All
1983

The Relationtrip
2017

Hey, I'm Alive
1975

A Deadly Silence
1989

Out of the Black
2001

Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
2014

Christmas Harmony
2018

You & Me
2018

Reeseville
2003

Baadasssss!
2004

A Month of Sundays
2001

Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
2018

Aloha Means Goodbye
1974

The Others
1997

All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
1991

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
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