Sally Kellerman Wiki
Sally Kellerman Biography
Who was Sally Kellerman ?
Sally Kellerman, an award-nominated TV and movie star, has died. She was 84 years old.
Her manager and her publicist Alan Eichler confirmed the news of Kellerman’s death to PEOPLE, stating that she died in her sleep of heart failure at her home in Woodland Hills, California, on Thursday morning.
Kellerman was best known for her role as Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in Robert Altman’s classic 1970 film MASH, opposite Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould. The film earned Kellerman an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. (In M*A*S*H, the long-running TV series inspired by the hit movie, Loretta Swit played Houlihan.)
How old was Sally Kellerman ?
June 1937, Long Beach, California, United States
Death
Sally Kellerman, the Oscar and Emmy nominated actor who played Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in director Robert Altman’s 1970 film “MASH,” died Thursday. Kellerman died of heart failure at her home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles, her manager and publicist Alan Eichler said. She was 84.
Career
MASH helped Kellerman transition from television, where she spent most of her previous career, to the big screen in movies like Back to School in 1986 and the 1994 ready-to-wear fashion extravaganza, also directed by Altman.
With a career spanning more than 60 years, Kellerman has appeared in television shows including the original 1966 Star Trek pilot, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Hawaii Five-O and I Spy.
His films included A Little Romance with Laurence Olivier, Foxes with Jodie Foster, and several other Altman films including Brewster McCloud, Welcome to L.A. and ThePlayer.
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Kellerman also starred opposite James Caan in 1973’s Slither and played Sally Hughes in the Burt Bacharach-Hal David musical Lost Horizon that same year.
Most recently, Kellerman had co-starring roles on the television series Decker and Maron, earning praise for her role as Toni, Marc Maron’s bohemian mother, in the latter.
In 2014, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series for her appearances on the long-running CBS soap opera The Young and Restless.
Kellerman started out as a singer and in 1972
Kellerman started out as a singer and in 1972 she released the album Roll With the Feeling. Barry Manilow produced her single “Triad” in 1973, and her last recording, the jazz-oriented “Sally,” was released in 2007.
The actress, who enrolled in acting classes early on with Jack Nicholson, Shirley Knight, Dean Stockwell and Robert Blake, also became one of the first women to host Saturday Night Live in 1981.
Kellerman is survived by her son Jack, her daughter Claire and her mother-in-law Lorraine Krane. Memorial services are pending.
