Acting

30

Woman

15 Dec 1939 (84)

Pau, France

Yvonne Monlaur

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yvonne Monlaur (December 15, 1939) is 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. ​

The Brides of Dracula

7 July 1960

It Started in Naples

6 August 1960

Circus of Horrors

1 April 1960

The Terror of the Tongs

15 March 1961

Honoré de Marseille

12 December 1956

Ladies' Man

21 March 1962

Gerarchi si muore

22 December 1961

Inn for Trouble

31 January 1960

Skies Above

20 January 1965

Night of Lust

29 November 1963