Sally Struthers
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
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
78
Gender
Female
Birthday
1947-07-28 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Acting

2024

A Man on the Inside as Virginia Foldau

2024

I Brake for Caterpillars as Sister John Bosco

2023

eVil Sublet as Reena

2023

Very Frightening Tales as Lady Talia

2018

Summer Camp Island as Additional Voices (voice)

2018

Summer Camp Island as Rose (voice)

2018

Christmas Harmony as Shirley

2018

You & Me as Tilly

2017

The Relationtrip as Liam's Mom (voice)

2016

The Last Laugh as Self

2006

What I Did for Love as Aunt Trudy

2005

American Dad! as Clara (voice)

2004

Best Week Ever as Not available

2004

Baadasssss! as Roz

2003

Reeseville as Katie Oakman

2002

Still Standing as Louise Miller

2001

The Division as Eve Warner

2001

A Month of Sundays as Onida Roy

2001

Out of the Black as Betty

2000

Gilmore Girls as Babette Dell

2000

As Told by Ginger as Mrs. Higsby (voice)

1998

The Wild Thornberrys as Penguin / Iguanas (voice)

1997

Cow and Chicken as Not available

1997

The Others as Mrs. Zelov

1996

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Aunt Lorraine

1994

Duckman as Not available

1992

The Tin Soldier as Not available

1991

Dinosaurs as Charlene Sinclair (voice)

1990

Tom & Jerry Kids Show as Jerry's Mother (voice)

1990

TaleSpin as Rebecca Cunningham (voice)

1990

Tiny Toon Adventures as Rhoda's Mom (voice)

1990

Tiny Toon Adventures as Sandy Witch (voice)

1990

Talespin: Plunder & Lightning as Rebecca Cunningham (voice)

1989

A Deadly Silence as Aunt Marilyn

1985

Alice in Wonderland as Tiger Lily

1985

The GLO Friends Save Christmas as Blanche (voice)

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Nancy La Rue

1984

Charles in Charge as Nora Bennington / Nancy Bowman

1983

This Is Your Life as Self

1983

The Charmkins as Poison Ivy (voice)

1982

9 to 5 as Marsha McMurray Shrimpton

1982

Gloria as Gloria Stivic

1981

A Gun in the House as Emily Cates

1979

...And Your Name Is Jonah as Jenny Corelli

1978

A Different Approach as Not available

1978

My Husband Is Missing as Katherine Eaton

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

Love, American Style as Barbara

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

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour as Not available

1967

Ironside as Not available

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Hostess

NaN

Street Smart as Bunny