Yvonne Monlaur
Born: 1935-12-15 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Died: 2017-04-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yvonne Monlaur (*December 15, 1939 † April 18, 2017) was a retired French film actress of the late 1950s and 1960s best known for her roles in the Hammer horror films. Her father's a White Russian count; her mother's a ballet dancer. She starred in the 1958 Italian film Three Strangers in Rome which was amongst Claudia Cardinale's earliest films and in 1960 in the horror film Circus of Horrors alongside prominent actors in British film such as Anton Diffring and Donald Pleasence. In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror film The Brides of Dracula alongside other noted British actors of the day Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in The Terror of the Tongs (1961) with Christopher Lee. Monlaur screentested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The role eventually went to another French actress, Claudine Auger. After a string of German and Italian films, Monlaur left films to return to Paris. Now she continues to live there. Of late she has attended a few film conventions, which have included salutes to Hammer films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yvonne Monlaur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2008
- Legend of Hammer: Vampires as Self
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1967
- Death Runs After Them as Janet Winters
1966
- Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included as Violet
1965
- Mission to Caracas as Muriel
- Skies Above as Françoise
- Anche l'inferno trema
1964
- License to Kill as Yvonne
1963
- Night of Lust as Miss Rivière / Nora Markriff
- Because, Because of a Woman as La soubrette
- Le temps des copains
1962
- The Hawk of the Caribbean as Arica Mageiras
- Time to Remember as Suzanne
- Ladies' Man as Claudia
1961
- The Terror of the Tongs as Lee
- Dying as Hierarchs as Rosalina Merletti
1960
- The Brides of Dracula as Marianne Danielle
- Circus of Horrors as Nicole Vanet
- It Started in Naples
- Inn for Trouble as Yvette Dupres
1959
- The Third Man
- La cento chilometri as Elena
- Spavaldi e innamorati as Sylvia
- Quel tesoro di papà as Marina
- Destinazione Sanremo as Anna
- Adventure in Capri as Yvonne
1958
- 3 Strangers in Rome as Nanda Colombo
- Love at First Sight as Elvira
1957
- The Twilight Girls as Une grande
- Non sono più guaglione as Nennella
- Les Lavandières du Portugal as Nadine
1956
- Mannequins of Paris as Janine
- Honoré de Marseille as Gyptis
1955
- Thirteen at the Table as (uncredited)