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
eVil Sublet
Christmas Harmony
Summer Camp Island
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
You & Me
The Relationtrip
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
The Last Laugh
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"
What I Did for Love
American Dad!
Baadasssss!
Best Week Ever
Reeseville
Still Standing
A Month of Sundays
Out of the Black
The Division
As Told by Ginger
Gilmore Girls
The Wild Thornberrys
The Others
Cow and Chicken
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Duckman
In the Best Interest of the Children
The Tin Soldier
Dinosaurs
Tiny Toon Adventures
TaleSpin
Tom & Jerry Kids Show
Talespin: Plunder & Lightning
A Deadly Silence
The GLO Friends Save Christmas
Alice in Wonderland
Charles in Charge
Murder, She Wrote
The Charmkins
The Fairest of Them All
Gloria
9 to 5
A Gun in the House
...And Your Name Is Jonah
My Husband Is Missing
A Different Approach
Intimate Strangers
The Great Houdinis
Hey, I'm Alive
Dinah!
Aloha Means Goodbye
The Getaway
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
All in the Family
Five Easy Pieces
The Phynx
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
The Dick Cavett Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Ironside
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show