Sally Dryer

Sally Dryer (a.k.a. Sally Dryer-Barker) [Ancestry.com. "California Marriage Index, 1960-1985" [database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007.] (born 10 February 1957, San Mateo County, California) [Ancestry.com. "California Birth Index, 1905-1995" [database on-line] . Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.] is a former child actor best known for her voice-over work in the 1960s.

Career

Dyer provided the voices for several "Peanuts" characters in television specials and film from 1965 to 1969. Dryer first started as the voice of Violet in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965). She was then promoted to the voice of fussbudget Lucy van Pelt in the following specials:

*"Charlie Brown's All-Stars!"
*"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
*"You're in Love, Charlie Brown"
*"He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown"

Dryer then provided the voice of Patty (not to be confused with the character of Peppermint Patty) in the feature film "A Boy Named Charlie Brown". Dryer's last stint with the "Peanuts" gang was performing the voices of several minor characters in "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown".

Dryer also starred as herself in a pair of recent documentaries on the 1960s Peanuts television phenomenon. Dryer was interviewed on the special documentary "You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown" (1990); and on the documentary "The Making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas" (2001).

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