Elisabeth Brooks
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Brooks was born Elisabeth Brooks Luyties in Toronto, Ontario and began her acting career aged five, encompassing both stage and screen. She started appearing in television roles in the mid-1970s and managed to pursue her acting career as a single mother while working a variety of jobs to support herself and her son. She had a brief role in Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), before appearing regularly on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, and in such popular television series as The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man and Emergency!
Brooks is probably best remembered for her role as the evil leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in the horror film The Howling (1981). Her other film appearances included Deep Space (1988), and The Forgotten One (1989), starring Kristy McNichol.
After a three-year struggle with brain cancer, Brooks died in a hospital near her home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 46
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.272 |
Birthday | 1951-07-02 |
Place of Birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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1981
The Howling
6.555/751
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they s...
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The Howling
1988
Deep Space
4.6/33
Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounter...
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Deep Space
1976
Family Plot
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Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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Family Plot
1979
The Solitary Man
8/2
A family man must make an adjustment after his wife of fifteen years one day blurts out that she wants a divorce and leaves him to construct a new lif...
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The Solitary Man
1989
The Forgotten One
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A man moves into a house that is supposedly haunted. Although he is attracted to his pretty next-door neighbor, he finds himself being seduced by the...
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The Forgotten One
1989
Jaded
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After getting beat up by her husband, a woman leaves home and seeks refuge at her cousin's place, surrounded by a strange assortment of people, includ...
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Das 6 Millionen Dollar Girl
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