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Yvonne De Carlo

Acting Born Sep 1, 1922 Vancouver, Canada 24 credits

Biography

Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American actress of film and television. During her six-decade career, her most frequent appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as of Anna Marie in Salome Where She Danced (1945); Anna in Criss Cross (1949); Sephora the wife of Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956), starring Charlton Heston; and Amantha Starr in Band of Angels (1957) with Clark Gable. In the early 1960s, De Carlo accepted the offer to play Lily Munster for the CBS television series The Munsters, alongside Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis.

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Known for

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Murder, She Wrote

as Miss Springer
Film

Mulholland Drive

as Lotta Crabtree

The Virginian

as Helen Haldeman aka Elena

The Virginian

as Imogene Del Finnia

Burke's Law

as Countess Barbara Erozzi
Film

The Ten Commandments

as Sephora

Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden

as Aunt Rosa

Full filmography

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
  • Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Miss Springer
  • Bonanza (1959) as Lotta Crabtree
  • The Virginian (1962) as Helen Haldeman aka Elena
  • The Virginian (1962) as Imogene Del Finnia
  • Tony Awards (1956) as Self
  • Burke's Law (1963) as Countess Barbara Erozzi
  • Lights Out (1949)
  • The Munsters (1964) as Lily Munster
  • Tales from the Crypt (1989) as Mrs. Jones (segment "Death of Some Salesmen")
  • The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) as Self
  • The Name of the Game (1968) as Mrs. Levene
  • The Ten Commandments (1956) as Sephora
  • The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966) as Nadia Marcolescu
  • Adventures in Paradise (1959) as Lianne Zagreb
  • Dream On (1990) as Francesca Goldman
  • The Ford Television Theatre (1952) as Prudence Ledyard /Madame 44
  • Screen Director's Playhouse (1955) as Pearl Krauss
  • The Greatest Show on Earth (1963)
  • Custer (1967)
  • Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951) as Francesca
  • McLintock! (1963) as Louise Warren
  • Death Valley Days (1952) as Dr. Clare Reed
  • Oscar (1991) as Aunt Rosa