Yvonne Monlaur
30 movies · 2 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 15, 1935
- Died
- Apr 18, 2017 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
- Also known as
- イヴォンヌ・モンロー · Yvonne-Thérèse-Marie-Camille Bédat de Monlaur
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Yvonne Monlaur: movies and TV shows
Acting (32)
- 1967
- 1966 Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
as Violet
- 1965 Mission to Caracas
as Muriel
- 1965
- 1965 Skies Above
as Françoise
- 1964 License to Kill
as Yvonne
- 1963 Night of Lust
as Miss Rivière / Nora Markriff
- 1963 Because, Because of a Woman
as La soubrette
- 1963
- 1962 Time to Remember
as Suzanne
- 1962 Ladies' Man
as Claudia
- 1962 The Hawk of the Caribbean
as Arica Mageiras
- 1961 Dying as Hierarchs
as Rosalina Merletti
- 1961 The Terror of the Tongs
as Lee
- 1960
- 1960 The Brides of Dracula
as Marianne Danielle
- 1960 Circus of Horrors
as Nicole Vanet
- 1960 Inn for Trouble
as Yvette Dupres
- 1959
- 1959 La cento chilometri
as Elena
- 1959 Destinazione Sanremo
as Anna
- 1959 Quel tesoro di papà
as Marina
- 1959 Spavaldi e innamorati
as Sylvia
- 1959 Adventure in Capri
as Yvonne
- 1958 3 Strangers in Rome
as Nanda Colombo
- 1958 Love at First Sight
as Elvira
- 1957 Non sono più guaglione
as Nennella
- 1957 Les Lavandières du Portugal
as Nadine
- 1957 The Twilight Girls
as Une grande
- 1956 Honoré de Marseille
as Gyptis
- 1956 Mannequins of Paris
as Janine
- 1955 Thirteen at the Table
as (uncredited)
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 2008
- 1994 The World of Hammer
2 episodes