Sally Cullen Brophy (December 14, 1928 â€" September 18, 2007) was a
Broadway and television actress and college theatre arts
professor.Brophy was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cullen Brophy.
Her father was a rancher, 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 of Arts in London, and then pursued a career on
Broadway.Brophy acted in the Phoenix Little Theatre. She worked in
Private Lives with Tallulah Bankhead. In 1951 she was an understudy in
Second Threshold. In 1954â€"1955, she starred as the grown-up "Wendy"
in Peter Pan.Brophy starred as Julie Fielding:355 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 and in the
episode of Medic entitled "I Climb the Stairs". 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.
Broadway and television actress and college theatre arts
professor.Brophy was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cullen Brophy.
Her father was a rancher, 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 of Arts in London, and then pursued a career on
Broadway.Brophy acted in the Phoenix Little Theatre. She worked in
Private Lives with Tallulah Bankhead. In 1951 she was an understudy in
Second Threshold. In 1954â€"1955, she starred as the grown-up "Wendy"
in Peter Pan.Brophy starred as Julie Fielding:355 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 and in the
episode of Medic entitled "I Climb the Stairs". 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.
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