![]() “We were toiling away in rehearsal,” Struthers recalls. 12, 1971, Sally Struthers and her cast mates - Carroll O’ Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner and others - were visited on the set by a CBS staffer. The Phynx as World's No.Shortly before the first episode of “All in the Family” aired on Jan. The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show ( 20 episodes) as Pebbles FlinstoneĪll in the Family ( 185 episodes) as Gloria Stivic Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode) as Nancy La Rueĩ to 5 ( 52 episodes) as Marsha McMurray Shrimpton The GLO Friends Save Christmas as Blanche (voice)Īlice in Wonderland ( 1 episode) as Tiger Lily ![]() Talespin: Plunder & Lightning as Rebecca Cunningham (voice) TaleSpin ( 65 episodes) as Rebecca Cunningham (voice) In the Best Interest of the Children as Patty Pepperĭinosaurs ( 65 episodes) as Charlene Sinclair (voice) Sabrina, the Teenage Witch ( 1 episode) as Aunt Lorraine The Wild Thornberrys ( 1 episode) as Penguin / Iguanas (voice) Gilmore Girls ( 52 episodes) as Babette Dell Those Were the Days: The Birth of "All in the Family" as SelfĪmerican Dad! ( 1 episode) as Clara (voice)Īs Told by Ginger ( 1 episode) as Mrs. The Television Revolution Begins: "All in the Family" Is On the Air as Self Waiting in the Wings: The Musical as LucyĬelebrity Ghost Stories ( 1 episode) as Self Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life ( 2 episodes) as Babette Dell Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting as Lucy Summer Camp Island ( 2 episodes) as Rose (voice) ( 1 episode) as Additional Voices (voice) I Brake for Caterpillars as Sister John Bosco IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh /. 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". She remained active off-camera, providing little girl voices for Saturday morning entertainment, notably her teenage "Pebbles Flintstone" character. ![]() To compensate, however, Sally's baby-doll voice worked extremely well for her in cartoons. 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. But without a hit show as collateral, offers started drying up. And Your Name Is Jonah (1979) (TV), A Gun in the House (1981) (TV), to name a few. 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). 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". She and Rob Reiner left the show after seven seasons, both eager to grow. 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". And, then came "All in the Family" (1971). 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. She performed briefly in regional stock plays until finding her break as both a commercial actress and dancer on TV. Relocating to Los Angeles, she trained at the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts and earned a scholarship as its "most promising student". She was born Sally Ann Struthers on July 28, 1948, in Portland, Oregon and raised there, pursuing an acting career following high school. 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).
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