Yvonne Monlaur
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 15, 1935
- Died
- April 18, 2017 (aged 81)
- Birthplace
- Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
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.
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Filmography
Legend of Hammer: Vampires
Movie · as Self
The World of Hammer
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Death Runs After Them
TV · as Janet Winters · 3 eps
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
Movie · as Violet
Skies Above
Movie · as Françoise
Mission to Caracas
Movie · as Muriel
Anche l'inferno trema
Movie
License to Kill
Movie · as Yvonne
Night of Lust
Movie · as Miss Rivière / Nora Markriff
Le temps des copains
Movie
Because, Because of a Woman
Movie · as La soubrette
The Hawk of the Caribbean
Movie · as Arica Mageiras
Time to Remember
Movie · as Suzanne
Ladies' Man
Movie · as Claudia
The Terror of the Tongs
Movie · as Lee
Dying as Hierarchs
Movie · as Rosalina Merletti
The Brides of Dracula
Movie · as Marianne Danielle
Circus of Horrors
Movie · as Nicole Vanet
Inn for Trouble
Movie · as Yvette Dupres
It Started in Naples
Movie
Adventure in Capri
Movie · as Yvonne
Spavaldi e innamorati
Movie · as Sylvia
Destinazione Sanremo
Movie · as Anna
Quel tesoro di papà
Movie · as Marina
La cento chilometri
Movie · as Elena
The Third Man
TV · 1 ep
3 Strangers in Rome
Movie · as Nanda Colombo
Love at First Sight
Movie · as Elvira
Les Lavandières du Portugal
Movie · as Nadine
Non sono più guaglione
Movie · as Nennella
The Twilight Girls
Movie · as Une grande
Mannequins of Paris
Movie · as Janine
Honoré de Marseille
Movie · as Gyptis
Thirteen at the Table
Movie · as (uncredited)