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April 9th 2022

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Character Actress

Sally Cullen Brophy (December 14, 1928 – September 18, 2007) Broadway and television actress and college theatre-arts professor.

Brophy starred as 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, and in an 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.

Her other television appearances included the Rod Cameron syndicated series State Trooper and in the Frank Lovejoy 1957–1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw.

In 1958, she portrayed Annie O'Connell, co-starring in the NBC Western series Buckskin, 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.

After Buckskin, Brophy had several additional guest roles; her last was in 1965 on Richard Crenna's CBS drama, Slattery's People. (Wikipedia)