Edited by Deepali Verma
American actor Lynne Marta, who starred in films such as ‘Joe Kidd’ and ‘Footloose’, has died at the age of 78. The reports first surfaced from Hollywood Reporter. Marta died on January 11 at her Los Angeles home after a long battle with cancer, as per her friend Chris Saint-Hilaire.
She also featured in episodes of Aaron Spelling’s ‘The Mod Squad’, ‘The Rookies’, ‘Starsky & Hutch’, ‘Charlie’s Angels’, ‘Vega$,’ and ‘Matt Houston’, as well as Quinn Martin’s ‘The F.B.I’, ‘Dan August’, ‘Cannon’, ‘The Streets of San Francisco’, ‘Barnaby Jones’, ‘The Manhunter’, and ‘Caribe.’
Marta, who had two more siblings, was born on October 30, 1945, in Somerville, New Jersey. George, Marta’s father, served as New Jersey’s commissioner of air and water pollution.
The beginning of her career was on the syndicated adolescent dance show ‘The Lloyd Thaxton Show’. Her television career includes ‘Then Came Bronson’, ‘Gunsmoke’, ‘Kojak’, ‘Medical Centre’, ‘Marcus Welby’, ‘M.D.’, ‘The Rockford Files’, ‘Knight Rider’, ‘Designing Women’, and ‘Law & Order’.
She additionally starred in several films, such as ‘Red Sky at Morning’, ‘Help Me, I’m Possessed’, and ‘Blood Beach’. Marta was engaged in an open relationship with David Soul, a Starsky & Hutch star who was married to actress Karen Carlson, as per the ‘People’ in 1983.
“All the years of Starsky & Hutch, David and Lynne lived together. However, they spent time with different people,” as per the publication.
In 1977, she starred alongside David Soul on his ‘David Soul and Friends’ TV special, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Her survivors currently are her sister, MJ, and her cat, Mr. Peaches.
