SALLY KELLERMAN BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Sally Kellerman was born on June 2nd, 1937 in Long Beach, California with the birth name Sally Claire Kellerman, born to Edith Baine and John Helm Kellerman. After graduating from Hollywood High School, Kellerman studied briefly at Los Angeles City College and later relocated to New York to study acting at the Actor's Studio (along with fellow actors Jeff Corey, Shirley Knight, Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell and Robert Blake) and in 1957 at the age of twenty she debuted in her first film, "Reform School Girl" starring Gloria Castillo, Ross Ford and Edd Byrnes.
Soon Kellerman was adding such television credits to her resume with appearances on, "Bachelor Father" (1960) starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, Sammee Tong and Jimmy Boyd, "Lock Up" (1961) starring Macdonald Carey, "Surfside 6" (1961) starring Troy Donahue, Diane McBain, Lee Patterson, Margarita Sierra and Van Williams, "Cheyenne" (1962) starring Clint Walker, "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" (1963) starring Marty Ingels and John Astin, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" (1963) and "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" (1963) and the highly touted and successful television miniseries "Centennial" (1978-1979) with a star-studded ensemble cast including Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad, Barbara Carrera, Richard Crenna, Timothy Dalton, Sharon Gless, Andy Griffith, Mark Harmon, Gregory Harrison, David Janssen, Alex Karras, Brian Keith, Stephen McHattie, Lois Nettleton, Donald Pleasence, Adrienne La Russa, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Vaughn, Dennis Weaver, Anthony Zerbe and Stephanie Zimbalist.
Along with now earning a name for herself in the industry as a television actress she also began appearing on such films as, "The Third Day" (1965) starring George Peppard, Roddy McDowall, Herbert Marshall, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Webber, Charles Drake, Arte Johnson and Elizabeth Ashley, "The Lollipop Cover" (1965) starring Don Gordon, Carol Seflinger and George Sawaya, "The Boston Strangler" (1968) starring alongside Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Jeff Corey, Murray Hamilton, William Marshall, Alex Rocco and James Brolin, "The April Fools" (1969) co-starring Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Harvey Korman, Peter Lawford, Myrna Loy, Jack Weston and Charles Boyer, and her biggest role up to that point in her career portraying, Major Margaret 'Hot-Lips' Houlihan on the film, "MASH" (1970) co-starring Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Elliott Gould, Robert Duvall, Rene Auberjonois, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff, Bobby Troup and in his film debut, football player Fred Williamson. For this role, she was awarded a Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award, a Golden Laurel Award and received an Oscar as well as a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.
As her career progressed, Kellerman began to add more substantial film roles to her resume such as, "Brewster McCloud" (1970) co-starring William Windom, Stacy Keach, Jennifer Salt, Margaret Hamilton, Bud Cort, Michael Murphy and Shelley Duvall, "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" (1972) starring with Alan Arkin and Paula Prentiss and Renee Taylor, "Welcome to L.A." (1976), "A Little Romance" (1979), "Back to School" (1986) starring Rodney Dangerfield, Keith Gordon, Burt Young, William Zabka, Ned Beatty, Sam Kinison, Adrienne Barbeau, M. Emmet Walsh and Robert Downey Jr., "Prêt-à-Porter (1994), "Point of Betrayal" (1995), "It's My Party" (1996), "The Maze" (1997) and "The Lay of the Land" (1997).
Now, Kellerman was quite successful not only as a television actress, but a film actress as well. She continues to work as an actress in both realms and has never limited herself to portraying one specific type of character.
In addition to her career as an actress in she has released two albums, one in 1969 and the other in 2009. She has also recorded songs for the films, "Brewster Cloud" (1970), "Lost Horizon" (1973) starring Peter Finch, John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Liv Ullmann, Michael York, Bobby Van, George Kennedy, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and Charles Boyer, "Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins" (1975), "You Can't Hurry Love" (1988), "Boris and Natasha" (1992), "Open House" (2004) and "Night Club" (2011).
Sally Kellerman has married twice, first in 1970 to Rick Edelstein however by 1975 this marriage came to an end. She then married Jonathon D. Krane in 1980 and together they have two children and she remains working today as both an actress and singer, touring and performing live around New York, New Jersey and Atlanta.
Some of her most recent appearances being on the television series, "90210" (2011), "Law & Order: LA" (2011), "Chemistry" (2011) and "Unsupervised" (2012).
Filmography
2012 Unsupervised
2011 Chemistry
2011 Law & Order: LA
2011 90210
2011 Night Club
2009 The Wishing Well
2008 Delg0
2007 Masters of Science Fiction
2007 A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper
2007 I Could Never Be Your Woman
2005 Boynton Beach Club
2004 Ugly
2004 Open House
2002 Providence
2002 In-Laws
2002 Verdict in Blood
2001 Women of the Night
2000 Bar Hopping
1999 Norm
1999 American Virgin
1999 The Noble Horse
1998 Columbo
1994-1998 Diagnosis Murder
1998 Ancient Graves: Voices of the Dead
1998 Punch Drunk
1997 The Lay of the Land
1997 Gun
1997 Ink
1997 The Maze
1996 Touched by an Angel
1996 The Naked Truth
1996 High Society
1996 It's My Party
1995 Burke's Law
1995 P.C.H.
1995 Point of Betrayal
1994 Prêt-à-Porter
1994 Mirror, Mirror 2: Raven Dance
1994 Dream On
1993 Younger and Younger
1993 Murder, She Wrote
1993 The Waiter
1993 Doppelganger
1992 Dinosaurs
1992 Boris and Natasha
1991 Drop Dead Gorgeous
1990 Evening Shade
1990 The Ray Bradbury Theater
1990 Happily Ever After
1989 Limit Up
1989 All's Fair
1989 The Secret of the Ice Cave
1988 CBS Summer Playhouse
1988 Paramedics
1988 You Can't Hurry Love
1987 Someone to Love
1987 Three for the Road
1986 Tall Tales & Legends
1986 Meatballs III: Summer Job
1986 That's Life!
1986 Back to School
1985 KGB: The Secret War
1985 Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird
1985 Moving Violations
1985 Secret Weapons
1985 Murder Among Friends
1984 Hotel
1983 September Gun
1983 Dempsey
1983 Faerie Tale Theatre
1983 CBS Children's Mystery Theatre
1982 For Lovers Only
1980 Big Blonde
1980 Head On
1980 Loving Couples
1980 Serial
1980 It Rained All Night the Day I Left
1980 Foxes
1979 A Little Romance
1978-1979 Centennial
1978 Magee and the Lady
1978 Great Performances
1977 The Mouse and His Child
1976 Welcome to L.A.
1976 The Big Bus
1975 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
1973 Lost Horizon
1973 Slither
1973 A Reflection of Fear
1972 Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1970 Brewster McCloud
1966-1970 Bonanza
1970 MASH
1969 The April Fools
1969 Mannix
1969 Hawaii Five-O
1969 It Takes a Thief
1968 The Boston Strangler
1968 Premiere
1967 The Invaders
1967 Dundee and the Culhane
1967 Coronet Blue
1967 Insight
1967 Tarzan
1967 T.H.E. Cat
1966 That Girl
1966 Star Trek
1966 I Spy
1966 The Legend of Jesse James
1966 A Man Called Shenandoah
1964-1965 Ben Casey
1965 The Lollipop Cover
1965 The Third Day
1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1965 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1965 The Rogues
1965 Seaway
1964-1965 12 O'Clock High
1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1964 Slattery's People
1964 The Greatest Show on Earth
1964 The Movie Maker
1963-1964 The Outer Limits
1963 My Three Sons
1963 The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1963 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1963 I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
1962 Cheyenne
1962 Hands of a Strange
1961 Surfside 6
1961 Lock Up
1960 Bachelor Father
1957 Reform School Girl
