Sally Struthers

Acting

Sally Struthers

Overview

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Birthday
Jul 28, 1947 (78 years old)

Sally Struthers

Known For

I Brake for Caterpillars
1h 35m
Movie 2024

I Brake for Caterpillars

Misdiagnosed with a terminal illness, a computer nerd dates his...

eVil Sublet
1h 45m
Movie 2023

eVil Sublet

A New York couple knowingly moves into a haunted apartment...

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
1h 28m
Movie 2023

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life

"Bewitched" remains beloved nearly 60 years after its debut. The...

Very Frightening Tales
0h 57m
Movie 2023

Very Frightening Tales

An anthology of seven frightening tales involving a ballerina, a...

Friendly Neighborhood Coven
0h 15m
Movie 2019

Friendly Neighborhood Coven

When a struggling single mother finds out her 15-year-old daughter...

Christmas Harmony
1h 25m
Movie 2018

Christmas Harmony

A young woman returns to her small hometown to rediscover...

Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
1h 49m
Movie 2018

Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting

The stripper Tony and the naive enthusiast Anthony, two entertainers,...

You & Me
1h 26m
Movie 2018

You & Me

A young deaf woman meets a recently blinded man. What...

The Relationtrip
1h 30m
Movie 2017

The Relationtrip

After bonding over their mutual disinterest in relationships, self-proclaimed loners,...

The Last Laugh
1h 29m
Movie 2016

The Last Laugh

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it...

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