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Brophy in 1953.
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Born |
Sally Cullen Brophy December 14, 1928 Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
Died | September 18, 2007 Princeton, New Jersey |
(aged 78)
Spouse(s) | George Goodman; 2 children |
Sally Cullen Brophy (December 14, 1928 – September 18, 2007) was a Broadway and television actress and college theatre arts professor.
Brophy was born in Phoenix, Arizona and was one of seven children. She was active in dramatics at Sacred Heart Convent in Menlo Park, California and attended College of New Rochelle. Additional experience came from her work as a summer apprentice at Westport, Connecticut's Theatre Guild. She studied at the Royal Academy in London, and then pursued a career on Broadway.
Brophie's first break came when she worked in Private Lives with Tallulah Bankhead. In 1951 she was an understudy in Second Threshold. In 1954–1955, she starred as the grown-up "Wendy" in Peter Pan.
Brophy played Julie Fielding in Follow Your Heart on NBC-TV in 1953. In 1954, she guest starred on an episode of the CBS crime drama, The Public Defender, starring Reed Hadley. The next year, she appeared in the debut episode of Code 3 and in the episodes "In Nebraska" and "The Long Road to Tucson" in the roles of Lucy Miller and Sister Michael, respectively, of NBC's western anthology television series Frontier.