Yvonne De Carlo

Born: 1922-09-01, Vancouver, Canada

Died: 2007-01-08

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.

Filmography

• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Bonanza (1959)
• The Virginian (1962)
• Tales from the Crypt (1989)
• Burke's Law (1963)
• The Ford Television Theatre (1952)
• Dream On (1990)
• Adventures in Paradise (1959)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966)
• Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)
• Oscar (1991)
• Custer (1967)
• Brute Force (1947)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
• Criss Cross (1949)
• Fuego negro (1979)
• So Proudly We Hail (1943)
• Band of Angels (1957)
• Frontier Gal (1945)
• The Desert Hawk (1950)
• Tentazioni proibite (1965)
• Slave Girl (1947)
• Cellar Dweller (1988)
• La Classe américaine (1993)
• Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
• Munster, Go Home! (1966)
• Raw Edge (1956)
• Here Come the Munsters (1995)
• Buccaneer's Girl (1950)