Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1935-12-15
Day of Death
2017-04-18
Place of Birth
Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Yvonne Monlaur
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 (31)
Legend of Hammer: Vampires
2008
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
1966
Mission to Caracas
1965
Anche l'inferno trema
1965
Skies Above
1965
License to Kill
1964
Night of Lust
1963
Because, Because of a Woman
1963
Le temps des copains
1963
Time to Remember
1962
Ladies' Man
1962
The Hawk of the Caribbean
1962
Dying as Hierarchs
1961
The Terror of the Tongs
1961
