Elisabeth Brooks

Biography

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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

The Six Million Dollar Man

Nurse

The Rockford Files

Jean Ludwig

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Natalie - Lab Assistant

Jake and the Fatman

Emergency!

The Howling

Marsha Quist

Family Plot

Woman in Cafe with Priest (uncredited)

Deep Space

Mrs. Ridley

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1989	The Forgotten One	Carla
1989	Jaded	Rita
1988	Deep Space	Mrs. Ridley
1981	The Howling	Marsha Quist
1979	The Solitary Man	Joyce
1976	Family Plot	Woman in Cafe with Priest (uncredited)
1975	The Bionic Woman

Year	TV Show	Role
1987	Jake and the Fatman
1974	Kolchak: The Night Stalker	Natalie - Lab Assistant
1974	The Rockford Files	Jean Ludwig
1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Nurse
1972	Emergency!