Acting
GenderFemale
BirthdayJuly 27, 1947 (77 years old)
Place of BirthPortland, Oregon, USA
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
The Getaway
Five Easy Pieces
I Brake for Caterpillars
The Phynx
What I Did for Love
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"
The Charmkins
...And Your Name Is Jonah
The GLO Friends Save Christmas
The Last Laugh
The Great Houdinis
A Different Approach
Intimate Strangers
A Gun in the House
Talespin: Plunder & Lightning
My Husband Is Missing
In the Best Interest of the Children
eVil Sublet
Very Frightening Tales
The Tin Soldier
Friendly Neighborhood Coven
The Fairest of Them All
The Relationtrip
Hey, I'm Alive
A Deadly Silence
Out of the Black
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
Christmas Harmony
You & Me
Reeseville
Baadasssss!
A Month of Sundays
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
Aloha Means Goodbye
The Others
All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Street Smart
Murder, She Wrote
Duckman
Charles in Charge
Best Week Ever
Still Standing
The Division
All in the Family
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
TaleSpin
Dinosaurs
Cow and Chicken
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Ironside
Gilmore Girls
Gloria
9 to 5
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Alice in Wonderland
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Wild Thornberrys
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
The Mike Douglas Show
As Told by Ginger
This Is Your Life
Dinah!
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Summer Camp Island
Summer Camp Island
Celebrity Ghost Stories
The Carol Burnett Show
Tiny Toon Adventures
Tiny Toon Adventures
The Dick Cavett Show
American Dad!
Tom & Jerry Kids Show
The Mike Douglas Show
A Man on the Inside
Love, American Style