Lynne Marta, best known for her roles in ‘Footloose’ and ‘Joe Kidd,’ died after a battle with cancer. She was 78.
Actor Lynne Marta, best known for her roles in films “Footloose” and “Joe Kidd” and as a prolific television actor whose career spanned five decades, has died. She was 78.
Marta died last Thursday in her Los Angeles home after a battle with cancer, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which confirmed the actor’s death with her friend, Chris Saint-Hilaire.
Born in New Jersey, Marta’s first on-screen role came when she was in her early 20s in 1966, playing a minor character in an episode of the coming-of-age sitcom, “Gidget” alongside future Oscar winner Sally Field. After a run of one-offs in other shows, she booked a role on “Love, American Style,” an anthology comedy show in which she appeared in minor parts throughout its first and second seasons.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in guest spots for iconic shows, such as “Gunsmoke,” “Mod Squad” and “Charlie’s Angels” and four episodes of “Starsky & Hutch.
