Sally Kellerman
1937–2022 · American actress
Sally Clare Kellerman was an American actress whose acting career spanned 60 years. Her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in Robert Altman's film M*A*S*H (1970) earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. After M*A*S*H, she appeared in a number of the director's projects, namely the films Brewster McCloud (1970), Welcome to L.A. (1976), The Player (1992), and Prêt-à-Porter (1994), and the short-lived anthology TV series Gun (1997). In addition to her work with Altman, Kellerman appeared in films such as Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972), Back to School (1986), plus many television series such as The Twilight Zone (1963), The Outer Limits, Star Trek (1966), Bonanza, The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman (2006), 90210 (2008), Chemistry (2011), and Maron (2013). She also voiced Miss Finch in Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985), which went on to become one of her most significant voice roles.
Sally Kellerman, in order
- 1965 The Third Day: acted · directed by Jack Smight
- 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series (TV series): acted · critics 75%, audiences 88% · streaming on Paramount+, Pluto TV
- 1968 The Boston Strangler: acted · directed by Richard Fleischer
- 1969 The April Fools: acted · directed by Stuart Rosenberg
- 1970 Brewster McCloud: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 86%, audiences 80%
- 1970 MASH: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 86%, audiences 82% · streaming on fuboTV
- 1972 Last of the Red Hot Lovers: acted · directed by Gene Saks
- 1973 Lost Horizon: acted · directed by Charles Jarrott · critics 14%, audiences 48% · streaming on YouTube (free)
- 1973 Slither: acted · directed by Howard Zieff
- 1975 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins: acted · directed by Dick Richards
- 1976 The Big Bus: acted · directed by James Frawley
- 1976 Welcome to L.A.: acted · directed by Alan Rudolph · audiences 39% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
- 1979 A Little Romance: acted · directed by George Roy Hill · critics 74%, audiences 85% · streaming on YouTube (free)
- 1980 Foxes: acted · directed by Adrian Lyne
- 1980 Head On: acted · directed by Michael Grant
- 1980 Loving Couples: acted · directed by Jack Smight
- 1985 KGB: The Secret War: acted · directed by Dwight H. Little
- 1985 Moving Violations: acted · directed by Neal Israel
- 1985 Secret Weapons (TV movie): acted · directed by Don Taylor
- 1985 Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird: acted · directed by Ken Kwapis · critics 91%, audiences 72% · streaming on Hoopla, YouTube (free)
- 1986 Back to School: acted · directed by Alan Metter
- 1986 That's Life!: acted · directed by Blake Edwards · critics 60%, audiences 48% · streaming on fuboTV
- 1987 Meatballs III: Summer Job: acted · directed by George Mendeluk
- 1987 Someone to Love: acted · directed by Henry Jaglom · critics 75%, audiences 55% · streaming on Roku Channel, Fandango at Home (free), Fawesome
- 1987 Three for the Road: acted · directed by Bill L. Norton
- 1992 Boris and Natasha: The Movie: acted · directed by Charles Martin Smith
- 1992 The Player: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 97%, audiences 84% · streaming on HBO Max
- 1993 Doppelganger: acted · directed by Avi Nesher
- 1993 Younger and Younger: acted · directed by Percy Adlon
- 1994 Prêt-à-Porter: acted · directed by Robert Altman · critics 22%, audiences 27%
- 1996 It's My Party: acted · directed by Randal Kleiser
- 1998 Columbo (TV series): acted · audiences 83% · streaming on Tubi, Fandango at Home (free), Prime Video
- 1999 American Virgin: acted · directed by Jean-Pierre Marois
- 1999 Not for Ourselves Alone: acted · directed by Ken Burns
- 2005 Boynton Beach Club: acted · directed by Susan Seidelman
- 2007 The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie: acted · directed by James Quattrochi
- 2008 Delgo: acted · directed by Jason Maurer and Marc F. Adler
- 2010 The Wishing Well (TV movie): acted · directed by David Jackson
- 2011 Night Club: acted · directed by Sam Borowski
- 2011 The Captains: acted · directed by William Shatner · audiences 56% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
- 2014 Reach Me: acted · directed by John Herzfeld
- 2015 Altman: acted · directed by Ron Mann · critics 70%, audiences 66% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
- Payback: Straight Up: acted · directed by Brian Helgeland