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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Sally Clare Kellerman was an American actress and singer 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 Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. 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.
I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.
He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.
I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.
I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.