Sally Brophy
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| Born | Sally Cullen Brophy December 14, 1928 Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. |
| Died | September 18, 2007 (aged 78) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Years active | 1953–1965 |
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| Children | 2 |
Sally Cullen Brophy (December 14, 1928 – September 18, 2007) was a
Early years
Brophy was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cullen Brophy. and then pursued a career on Broadway.
Stage
Brophy starred with John Loder and Natalie Schafer in For Love or Money at the Sombrero Playhouse in Phoenix during January 1950.[5] She also acted in the Phoenix Little Theatre.[6] She worked in Private Lives with Tallulah Bankhead.[3] In 1951, she was an understudy in Second Threshold. In 1954–1955, she starred as the grown-up "Wendy" in Peter Pan.[7]
Television
Brophy starred as Julie Fielding
Her other television appearances included the
In 1958, she portrayed Annie O'Connell, co-starring in the NBC Western series Buckskin,[8] a summer replacement series for The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. Brophy played widow Annie O'Connell, who ran a boarding house in the fictitious "Old West" town of Buckskin, Montana. The other stars were Tom Nolan, as Annie's 10-year-old son Jody, who was the narrator, and Mike Road, as Marshal Tom Sellers. Buckskin ran for 39 episodes from 1958 to 1959. Brophy and Nolan also appeared together in the March 5, 1959, episode of The Ford Show.[10]
After Buckskin, Brophy had several additional guest roles; her last was in 1965 on Richard Crenna's CBS drama, Slattery's People.
Family
In 1961, Brophy married George Goodman, an investment manager and financial reporter, who later became a best-selling economics author and TV personality under the pseudonym of "Adam Smith".[11] The couple had two children. When Brophy retired from acting, the couple moved to Princeton, New Jersey.
Teaching career
Brophy joined the faculty of Rider University (then Rider College) in nearby Lawrenceville, where she taught theater arts. She also directed student productions at Princeton University.
Death
She died in
References
- ^ Newspapers.com.
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- ^ a b "Sallie Brophy". Bowman Gum. 1953. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
- ^ a b "She Follows Her Heart" (PDF). Radio-TV Mirror. 41 (1): 14–15. December 1953. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
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- ^ "Sally Brophy". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on January 19, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
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- ^ "The Ford Show Episode Guide". ernieford.com. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
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External links
- Sally Brophy at IMDb
- Sally Brophy at the Internet Broadway Database
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