Elisabeth Brooks

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 mid1970s 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 leatherclad 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 threeyear struggle with brain cancer Brooks died in a hospital near her home in Palm Springs California at the age of 46