Ann Brebner, a San Francisco-area casting director who worked for George Lucas and got one of the first looks at his script for Star Wars, has died. She was 93.
Brebner died Friday at her home in San Rafael, Calif., the Marin Independent Journal reported.
A native of New Zealand, she and her husband, the late actor John Brebner, launched the Bay Area's first professional casting agency in 1960.
She cast actors for such Lucas films as Thx 1138 (1971), his first feature, and American Graffiti (1973), and the first dramatic reading of his screenplay for 1977's Star...
Brebner died Friday at her home in San Rafael, Calif., the Marin Independent Journal reported.
A native of New Zealand, she and her husband, the late actor John Brebner, launched the Bay Area's first professional casting agency in 1960.
She cast actors for such Lucas films as Thx 1138 (1971), his first feature, and American Graffiti (1973), and the first dramatic reading of his screenplay for 1977's Star...
- 1/14/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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