Thordis Brandt

Thordis Brandt

Acting
1943-01-01
Germany

Biography

Thordis Brandt is a German-born American actress. Thordis Brandt was born in Germany of Norwegian and German parents. She moved to Canada as a young girl and was raised initially at a farm in St. Norbert, Winnipeg, then moved to a mink ranch in Bella Coola, British Columbia, then to Vancouver in 1958. In 1963, Thordis graduated as a registered nurse from St. Paul's Hospital School of Nursing. She moved to Santa Monica, California where she continued to practice her nursing in private duty. One of her jobs in private duty was serving actress Patricia Neal. Ms. Neal recommended Thordis to other actors and actresses and Thordis became known as the "actor's nurse". Thordis began her career as a nurse advisor in Ben Casey where she made appearances on the show. After retiring from acting, she continued nursing in Beverly Hills.

Known For & Full Filmography21 Titles

#1The Fugitive

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Patty

7.3 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaMystery

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

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#2Hogan's Heroes

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Elsa (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
War & PoliticsComedy

Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.

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#3Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Nurse

7.1 / 10
ComedyFamily

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show on May 18, 1964. The show ran for five seasons and a total of 150 episodes. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment began releasing the series on DVD. The final season was released in November 2008. The series was created by Aaron Ruben, who also produced the show with Sheldon Leonard and Ronald Jacobs. Filmed and set in California, it stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the United States Marine Corps. Frank Sutton plays Gomer's high-octane, short-fused Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter, and Ronnie Schell plays Gomer's friend Gilbert "Duke" Slater. Allan Melvin played in the recurring role of Gunnery Sergeant Carter's rival, Sergeant Charley Hacker. The series never discussed nor addressed the then-current Vietnam War, instead focusing on the relationship between Gomer and Sergeant Carter. The show retained high ratings throughout its run.

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#4I Spy

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Valentina

6.5 / 10
Action & Adventure

A pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach go on secret missions around the world.

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#5The Green Hornet

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes as Nedra Vallen

7.4 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy

The Green Hornet is a television series on the ABC US television network that aired for the 1966–1967 TV season starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato.

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#6The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes as Miss Ibsen

6.9 / 10
Action & Adventure

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music composed by Jerry Goldsmith, which was rearranged into a slightly different, harder-edged arrangement by Dave Grusin.

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#7Nevada Smith

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Saloon Girl

6.7 / 10
Western

Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian American mother and European-American father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot, on time and correctly.

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#8Funny Girl

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Ziegfeld Girl

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaRomance

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

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#9The Oscar

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Actress

5.1 / 10
Drama

An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.

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#10In Like Flint

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Amazon #6

6.2 / 10
ActionAdventureComedy

Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds that the President has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.

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#11Myra Breckinridge

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Whip-Cracking Masseuse (uncredited)

4.5 / 10
Comedy

Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.

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#12The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Babe (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
ComedyWestern

An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a younger, but vicious gang leader.

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#13Warning Shot

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.4 / 10
CrimeMysteryThriller

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

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#14Live a Little, Love a Little

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Blonde (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
ComedyMusicRomance

Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.

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#15The Split

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Police Clerk (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
ActionCrime

A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.

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#16Spinout

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Bit Girl (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
ComedyMusicRomance

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.

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#17Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Cigarette Girl

6.5 / 10
Comedy

In this comedy, an aspiring singer finds herself single and pregnant. The story begins when she is rushed to the hospital to give birth. She is joined by three men; all of them want to marry her. The story of her pregnancy and her rise to stardom are told in flashback.

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#18The Helicopter Spies

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Miss Zalamar

5.0 / 10
ActionAdventureCrime

The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.

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#19The Naked Witch

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Anastasia

5.0 / 10
HorrorMystery

A psychic researcher and his assistants investigate a series of murders of beautiful young women.

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#20Up Your Teddy Bear

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Debra Sur

2.9 / 10
Comedy

Clyde King, a toy store employee whose hobbies include making wooden toys and stalking women, is coveted by the female owner of one of the biggest toy companies in the world. She is enchanted by King's hand-carved toys, and she delegates the recruitment of the toy-maker to her second-in-command, Lyle "Skippy" Burns. However, King will not join her company as she reminds him of his mother. She becomes the subject of bizarre fantasies in which "Mother," the toy company owner as imagined by King, brow-beats and humiliates him. Discovering King's predeliction for leaving the toy store to stalk women, Skippy first tries to entice Clyde into signing an employemnt contract by supplying him with women, even going as far to dress himself up in drag as a prostitute. But every time he sets King up with a woman, the encounter ends disastrously, so Skippy finally decides to kill him.

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#21The Last of the Secret Agents?

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Fred Johnson, GGI Agent

4.3 / 10
AdventureComedy

Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.

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