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Yvonne Monlaur
Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
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…
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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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2008
Legend of Hammer: Vampires
Movie Self
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1994
The World of Hammer
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1967
Death Runs After Them
TV show Janet Winters
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1966
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
Movie Violet
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1965
Mission to Caracas
Movie Muriel
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1965
Anche l'inferno trema
Movie
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1965
Skies Above
Movie Françoise
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1964
License to Kill
Movie Yvonne
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1963
Night of Lust
Movie Miss Rivière / Nora Markriff
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1963
Because, Because of a Woman
Movie La soubrette
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1963
Le temps des copains
Movie
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1962
Time to Remember
Movie Suzanne
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1962
Ladies' Man
Movie Claudia
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1962
The Hawk of the Caribbean
Movie Arica Mageiras
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1961
Dying as Hierarchs
Movie Rosalina Merletti
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1961
The Terror of the Tongs
Movie Lee
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1960
It Started in Naples
Movie
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1960
The Brides of Dracula
Movie Marianne Danielle
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1960
Circus of Horrors
Movie Nicole Vanet
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1960
Inn for Trouble
Movie Yvette Dupres
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1959
The Third Man
TV show
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1959
La cento chilometri
Movie Elena
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1959
Destinazione Sanremo
Movie Anna
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1959
Quel tesoro di papà
Movie Marina
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1959
Spavaldi e innamorati
Movie Sylvia
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1959
Adventure in Capri
Movie Yvonne
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1958
3 Strangers in Rome
Movie Nanda Colombo
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1958
Love at First Sight
Movie Elvira
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1957
Non sono più guaglione
Movie Nennella
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1957
Les Lavandières du Portugal
Movie Nadine
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1957
The Twilight Girls
Movie Une grande
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1956
Honoré de Marseille
Movie Gyptis
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1956
Mannequins of Paris
Movie Janine
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1955
Thirteen at the Table
Movie (uncredited)
