Sally Struthers

Sally Struthers

Birthdate
July 28, 1947 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
July 28, 1947 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Known For
Acting

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

Sally Struthers's LGBTQ+ Titles

Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
Lucy
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
Lucy

Acting (70)

A Classic Spy as Virginia (1 episode)
I Brake for Caterpillars as Sister John Bosco
Very Frightening Tales as Lady Talia
2023
eVil Sublet as Reena
2018
Christmas Harmony as Shirley
2018
Summer Camp Island as Additional Voices (voice) (1 episode)
2018
Summer Camp Island as Rose (voice) (2 episodes)
2018
You & Me as Tilly
2017
The Relationtrip as Liam's Mom (voice)
2016
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life as Babette Dell (2 episodes)
2016
The Last Laugh as Self
2009
Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self (1 episode)
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) (1 episode)
2004
Baadasssss! as Roz
2004
Best Week Ever (6 episodes)
2003
Reeseville as Katie Oakman
2002
Still Standing (5 episodes)
2001
A Month of Sundays as Onida Roy
2001
Out of the Black as Betty
2001
The Division (1 episode)
2000
As Told by Ginger as Mrs. Higsby (voice) (1 episode)
2000
Gilmore Girls as Babette Dell (52 episodes)
1998
The Wild Thornberrys as Penguin / Iguanas (voice) (1 episode)
1997
The Others as Mrs. Zelov
1997
Cow and Chicken (1 episode)
1996
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Aunt Lorraine (1 episode)
1994
Duckman (1 episode)
1992
In the Best Interest of the Children as Patty Pepper
1992
The Tin Soldier
1991
Dinosaurs as Charlene Sinclair (voice) (65 episodes)
1990
Tiny Toon Adventures as Rhoda's Mom (voice) (1 episode)
1990
Tiny Toon Adventures as Sandy Witch (voice) (1 episode)
1990
TaleSpin as Rebecca Cunningham (voice) (65 episodes)
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 (1 episode)
1984
Charles in Charge (1 episode)
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Nancy La Rue (1 episode)
1983
The Charmkins as Poison Ivy (voice)
1983
This Is Your Life as Self (1 episode)
1982
Gloria as Gloria Stivic (22 episodes)
1982
9 to 5 as Marsha McMurray Shrimpton (52 episodes)
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
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 (1 episode)
1974
Aloha Means Goodbye as Sara Moore
1972
The Getaway as Fran Clinton
1971
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show as Pebbles Flinstone (20 episodes)
1971
All in the Family as Gloria Stivic (185 episodes)
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 (1 episode)
1968
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
1967
The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters (1 episode)
1967
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (2 episodes)
1967
Ironside (1 episode)
1967
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (72 episodes)
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self (2 episodes)
1961
The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Hostess (5 episodes)