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

American Dad!

7.0

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

7.8

Gilmore Girls

7.9

Dinosaurs

7.8

The Getaway

7.1

Five Easy Pieces

7.1

Tiny Toon Adventures

7.8

Cow and Chicken

7.1

Murder, She Wrote

7.5

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

7.3

The Wild Thornberrys

6.8

TaleSpin

7.3

All in the Family

7.8

Tom & Jerry Kids Show

6.2

A Man on the Inside

7.4

As Told by Ginger

6.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.4

Duckman

7.1

Charles in Charge

6.1

Ironside

6.9

The Carol Burnett Show

7.6

Still Standing

6.9

Baadasssss!

6.5

Summer Camp Island

7.1

Alice in Wonderland

6.8

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

6.6

Christmas Harmony

6.4

Talespin: Plunder & Lightning

6.2

The Last Laugh

6.9

The Dick Cavett Show

6.7

Celebrity Ghost Stories

7.3

Love, American Style

6.0

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

6.0

What I Did for Love

6.1

...And Your Name Is Jonah

6.6

The Relationtrip

5.5

The Division

7.0

The Great Houdinis

6.0

Waiting in the Wings: The Musical

5.3

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

6.9

The Phynx

3.5

In the Best Interest of the Children

5.0

Best Week Ever

6.3

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show

4.0

The Mike Douglas Show

5.1

You & Me

7.0

A Deadly Silence

6.2

9 to 5

6.8

The GLO Friends Save Christmas

3.0

A Different Approach

6.3

A Gun in the House

6.3

A Month of Sundays

3.5

Gloria

5.0

Dinah!

6.5

Intimate Strangers

5.0

My Husband Is Missing

6.0

eVil Sublet

3.0

The Tin Soldier

8.0

Hey, I'm Alive

5.0

Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting

1.0

The Others

4.0

All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special

9.0

I Brake for Caterpillars

0.0

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

0.0

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

0.0

The Charmkins

0.0

Very Frightening Tales

0.0

Friendly Neighborhood Coven

0.0

The Fairest of Them All

0.0

Out of the Black

0.0

Reeseville

0.0

Aloha Means Goodbye

0.0

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life

0.0

This Is Your Life

0.0