1 week Ago By Mike Barnes
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, a reflection of her style and spirit. She is survived by her daughter, Tracy, and her grandchild, Miuccia. Her husband, Larry Bunker, a renowned jazz percussionist who played with The Bill Evans Trio and recorded with the likes of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Diana Krall, died in March 2005 at age 76.
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