Sally Dryer
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Sally Dryer (a.k.a. Sally Dryer-Barker)[1] (born 10 February 1957, San Mateo County, California)[2] is a former child actor best known for her voice-over work in the 1960s.
[edit] 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).

