
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
80 acting credits
Acting · 80

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

American Dad!
2005

Gilmore Girls
2000

Murder, She Wrote
1984

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Ironside
1967

Love, American Style
1969

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996

The Carol Burnett Show
1967

Summer Camp Island
2018

Dinosaurs
1991

The Division
2001

The Wild Thornberrys
1998

Tom & Jerry Kids Show
1990

Cow and Chicken
1997

The Dick Cavett Show
1968

TaleSpin
1990

Duckman
1994

All in the Family
1971

Charles in Charge
1984

Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009

Tiny Toon Adventures
1990

Still Standing
2002

Dinah!
1974

As Told by Ginger
2000

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968

Best Week Ever
2004

A Man on the Inside
2024

The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1969

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
2016

Maron
2013

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1967

9 to 5
1982

Alice in Wonderland
1985
This Is Your Life
1983

Fish Police
1992

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
1971

The Getaway
1972

Gloria
1982

Five Easy Pieces
1970

The Last Laugh
2016

All Is Merry & Bright
2025

Baadasssss!
2004

In the Best Interest of the Children
1992

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023

Christmas Harmony
2018

A Deadly Silence
1989

Street Smart
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Talespin: Plunder & Lightning
1990

Intimate Strangers
1977

A Different Approach
1978

What I Did for Love
2006

The Great Houdinis
1976

Hey, I'm Alive
1975

Out of the Black
2001

The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air
2009

The Phynx
1970

Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting
2018

Waiting in the Wings: The Musical
2014

The GLO Friends Save Christmas
1985

Aloha Means Goodbye
1974
Searching for Stars Hollow
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All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
1991

The Fairest of Them All
1983

A Month of Sundays
2001

My Husband Is Missing
1978

...And Your Name Is Jonah
1979

The Relationtrip
2017

Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family"
2009

Very Frightening Tales
2023

The Charmkins
1983

A Gun in the House
1981

Reeseville
2003

The Others
1997

You & Me
2018

I Brake for Caterpillars
2024

The Tin Soldier
1992

The Secret World of the Very Young
1984

eVil Sublet
2023
Friendly Neighborhood Coven
2019