Sally Brophy

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Sally Brophy
Born	Sally Cullen Brophy December 14, 1928(1928-12-14) Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Died	September 18, 2007 (aged 78) Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Spouse(s)	George J.W. Goodman

Sally Cullen Brophy (December 14, 1928 - September 18, 2007) was a Broadway and television actress in the 1950s and 1960s who subsequently became a college theatre arts professor.

Brophy was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She studied at the Royal Academy in London, England. In 1961, she married George J.W. Goodman, a television writer and host, also known as "Adam Smith", who survived her. The couple had two children. Brophy retired from acting in 1965, when the couple moved to Princeton, New Jersey. She joined the faculty of the private Rider University (then Rider College) in nearby Lawrenceville in Mercer County. She also directed student productions at Princeton University.

Her most enduring role was that of the widow Annie O'Connell in the NBC Western series Buckskin, which ran for thirty-nine episodes from 1958 to 1959. Her character ran a boarding house in the fictitious town of Buckskin, Montana. The principal star was Tom Nolan, who as her ten-year-old son narrated each episode from the perspective of a boy growing up in the "Old West' of 1880. Her other Buckskin costar was Mike Road, who played Marshal Tom Sellers. The program was based in part on the interesting characters in Buckskin and the strangers who passed through the boarding house.

She also appeared in numerous television series, including NBC's The Dick Powell Show and Wagon Train, ABC's Ben Casey and The Fugitive, and CBS's The Millionaire. Her last acting role was in 1965 in an episode of CBS's Slattery's People starring Richard Crenna.