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
Filmography (80)
All Is Merry & Bright
2025
I Brake for Caterpillars
2024
A Man on the Inside
2024
eVil Sublet
2023
Very Frightening Tales
2023
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
Friendly Neighborhood Coven
2019
Christmas Harmony
2018
You & Me
2018
Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
2018
Summer Camp Island
2018
The Relationtrip
2017
The Last Laugh
2016
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
2016
Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
2014
Maron
2013
The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
2009
Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"
2009
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
What I Did for Love
2006
American Dad!
2005
Baadasssss!
2004
Best Week Ever
2004
Reeseville
2003
Still Standing
2002
Out of the Black
2001
A Month of Sundays
2001
The Division
2001
Gilmore Girls
2000
As Told by Ginger
2000
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
The Others
1997
Cow and Chicken
1997
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996
Duckman
1994
In the Best Interest of the Children
1992
The Tin Soldier
1992
Fish Police
1992
All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
1991
Dinosaurs
1991
Talespin: Plunder & Lightning
1990
TaleSpin
1990
Tiny Toon Adventures
1990
Tom & Jerry Kids Show
1990
A Deadly Silence
1989
The GLO Friends Save Christmas
1985
Alice in Wonderland
1985
The Secret World of the Very Young
1984
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Charles in Charge
1984
The Charmkins
1983
The Fairest of Them All
1983
This Is Your Life
1983
Gloria
1982
9 to 5
1982
A Gun in the House
1981
...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979
A Different Approach
1978
My Husband Is Missing
1978
Intimate Strangers
1977
The Great Houdinis
1976
Hey, I'm Alive
1975
Aloha Means Goodbye
1974
Dinah!
1974
The Getaway
1972
All in the Family
1971
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
1971
Five Easy Pieces
1970
The Phynx
1970
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1969
Love, American Style
1969
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1967
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
Ironside
1967
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Street Smart
Searching for Stars Hollow
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