Judy Strangis

Acting

Strangis made her film debut at age 7, in the 1957 movie Dragoon Wells Massacre. For the next 27 years, she was regularly cast in small and guest-starring roles in television shows.

In 1969, Strangis was cast as high school student Helen Loomis in the ABC show Room 222. She played this role for four years.

In 1976, she was cast as the sidekick superheroine DynaGirl in the Saturday morning TV show Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, co-starring with Deidre Hall. Her nephew, writer/producer Greg Strangis, wrote two episodes in this series.^{[citation needed]}

Other appearances include roles on The Spike Jones Show (Jones was her uncle), The Twilight Zone ("The Bard"), The Mod Squad ("Outside Position"), and Bewitched. Strangis appeared twice as an extra on Batman; her brother Sam Strangis was a production manager on the show. Strangis appeared in the TV movies All My Darling Daughters (11/22/1972) and My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (11/08/1973). She appeared in a season-4 episode of Love American Style, "Love and the Mind Reader" (03/02/1973), and also appeared in the first season of a Barnaby Jones episode, "Sing a Song of Murder" (04/01/1973). Strangis appeared in the series CHiPs season-3 episode, "Kidnap" (01/26/1980), and a season-5 episode, "Moonlight" (10/18/1981). In 1984, she guest-starred in an episode of The A-Team, "In Plane Sight".

Voice-overs

Strangis began doing voice-overs in Saturday morning cartoons in 1972 with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's The Roman Holidays, Butch Cassidy in 1973, as well as Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch in 1974 and continued performing cartoon voice-overs for the next 10 years for series including Goldie Gold and Action Jack, Saturday Supercade and MoonDreamers.

Advertisements

From 1974 to 1975, Strangis was a pitchwoman for Chrysler Corporation in the role of "Mean Mary Jean".^[2] Wearing a football jersey and short denim hot-pants, she promoted the Plymouth Duster, Plymouth Volare, and Plymouth Road Runner models and often appeared at Chrysler promotions and auto shows around the country.

In 1976, Strangis became a pitchwoman for Mattel's Barbie product line.

Film

Television