Brandyn Barbara Artis, Actress in ‘Thx 1138’ and ‘The Doctor,’ Dies at 81
Brandyn Barbara Artis, an actress who appeared in films including George Lucas’ Thx 1138 and Randa Haines’ The Doctor, has died. She was 81.
Artis battled breast cancer and died March 31 at her home in Los Angeles, her friend Karen T. Bolt announced.
Artis’ résumé also included work on such TV shows as Man From Atlantis, The White Shadow, Knots Landing, Dynasty and General Hospital.
She played a hologram dancer in Thx 1138 (1971), which starred Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence in Lucas’ first feature as a director, and was a nurse in The Doctor, starring William Hurt.
An U.S. Air Force veteran, Artis wrote the autobiographical one-woman play Sister, Girl, which was drawn from a journal she kept during her treatment for breast cancer. It was performed in the U.S. and internationally.
She also authored the 2011 romance novel Running Barefoot in Paris and won a Harper’s Bazaar/Estée Lauder “Fabulous at Every Age” contest,...
Artis battled breast cancer and died March 31 at her home in Los Angeles, her friend Karen T. Bolt announced.
Artis’ résumé also included work on such TV shows as Man From Atlantis, The White Shadow, Knots Landing, Dynasty and General Hospital.
She played a hologram dancer in Thx 1138 (1971), which starred Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence in Lucas’ first feature as a director, and was a nurse in The Doctor, starring William Hurt.
An U.S. Air Force veteran, Artis wrote the autobiographical one-woman play Sister, Girl, which was drawn from a journal she kept during her treatment for breast cancer. It was performed in the U.S. and internationally.
She also authored the 2011 romance novel Running Barefoot in Paris and won a Harper’s Bazaar/Estée Lauder “Fabulous at Every Age” contest,...
- 4/10/2025
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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