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Yvonne De Carlo

1922–2007 · Actor

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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Notable Noir Roles

Brute Force

1947Dir. Jules Dassin · Gina Ferrara

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust…

Criss Cross

1949Dir. Robert Siodmak · Anna

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

Full Noir Filmography

2 films · 1947–1949