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,...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Auto-Tune the Munsters: A Rock Opera
2015
as Lily Munster (archive footage)
A television special made up of footage of the Munsters episode "A Man for Marilyn", which has been extensively re-edited into an Auto-Tune musical.

Six by Sondheim
2013
as Self (archive footage)
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

The Munsters - Family Portrait
2008
as Lily Munster
It’s the frighteningly funny Munsters like you’ve never seen them before! For the firs time ever, the unforgettable “Family Portrait” comes to DVD in ...

The Munsters: America's First Family of Fright
2004
as self
Little-known facts about the 1960s television series "The Munsters" abound in this documentary that details the show's conception, development and suc...

The Making of The Ten Commandments
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Go behind the scenes of the beloved biblical epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses and directed by legendary filmmaker Cecil B....

Al Lewis: Forever Grandpa
2000
as Lily Munster (archive footage)
Al Lewis becomes well-known for his iconic role as Grandpa on "The Munsters".

The Barefoot Executive
1995
as Norma
A young man working in the mailroom of a television network rises to the top of the company after he discovers that his girlfriend's chimp is capable ...

Here Come the Munsters
1995
as Restaurant Guest
The Munsters come to America to search for Herman's brother-in-law Norman Hyde, only to find out that he has turned himself into Brent Jekyll, who is ...

La Classe américaine
1993
as The Actor's Wife (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...

Seasons of the Heart
1993
as Older Martha (voice)
Martha and Jed Richards live in Oregon in 1862. They and their two daughters moved there to make a new life, but the daughters died of cholera along t...

The Naked Truth
1992
as Mrs. Hess
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his T...

Oscar
1991
as Aunt Rosa
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite ...

Mirror Mirror
1990
as Emelin
Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to comm...

Cellar Dweller
1988
as Mrs. Briggs
In the 1950s, a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of ...

American Gothic
1987
as Ma
When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelt...
A Masterpiece of Murder
1986
as Mrs. Murphy
An over-the-hill gumshoe reluctantly teams with worldly retired master thief to solve a string of art thefts and murders.

Flesh and Bullets
1985
as Los Angeles Judge
Two men who meet in a bar in Las Vegas discover that they have one big problem in common, their wives. They decide to do something drastic about it.

Play Dead
1983
as Hester
A woman uses her magic powers and a vicious Rotweiller dog to murder her relatives.

Vultures
1983
as Rose
A dying wealthy patriarch, Ramon summons his relatives to his bedside, setting the tone for intriguing suspense when a bizarre set of murders occurs. ...

Liar's Moon
1982
as Jeanene Dubois
In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). G...

The Munsters' Revenge
1981
as Lily Munster
The lovable Munster family finds their placid world turned into turmoil by the diabolical Dr. Diablo, the mastermind of an art heist using monster rob...

The Man with Bogart's Face
1980
as Teresa Anastas
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly li...

Silent Scream
1979
as Mrs. Engels
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, ...

Guyana: Crime of the Century
1979
as Susan Ames
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who...

Black Fire
1979
as Catherine Jones
Bloody slave drama from the southern states of hatred, murder, revenge- and impossible love.

Nocturna
1979
as Jugulia Vein
Hard times have fallen on the Transylvanian House of Dracula. To help pay the taxes, Castle Dracula has been converted into the Hotel Transylvania. Dr...

Satan's Cheerleaders
1977
as Emmy Bubb
The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for a virgin to sacrifice. One day he kidnaps the che...

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
as Cleaning Woman
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

House of Shadows
1976
as Mrs. Howard
Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the dead body, the killer, and the truth.

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
1975
as Julia
Sweeney is a playwright on a career decline. He spends much of his time wheedling money and beer out of his artistic friend Moriarty. One of his few h...

Blazing Stewardesses
1975
as Honey Morgan
Those "naughty stewardesses" are at it again! But this time they’ve turned in their Mile High Club sky miles for a sexy, rousing, Old West-styled adve...
Gable: The King Remembered
1975
as Herself
Friends and co-workers recall the life of Hollywood screen star Clark Gable.

The Intruder
1975
as Miss DePriest
The lust for gold and the reading of a will brings eleven visitors to a remote island retreat, but an unseen, seemingly unstoppable evil follows to st...

The Mark of Zorro
1974
as Isabella Vega (as Yvonne DeCarlo)
The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.

The Girl on the Late, Late Show
1974
as Lorraine
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiri...
Arizona Slim
1973
as Countess Zubrovka
Plot unknown but described as a rock 'n' roll western. Shot in Times Square during New Years Eve of 1973. Possibly unreleased.

The Seven Minutes
1971
as Constance Cumberland
To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material. The defense attorneys need to find the mystery of the o...

The Delta Factor
1970
as Valerie
Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is c...

Arizona Bushwhackers
1968
as Jill Wyler
During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds...

The Power
1968
as Mrs. Sally Hallson
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race i...

Hostile Guns
1967
as Laura Mannon
US Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Manno...

Munster, Go Home!
1966
as Lily Munster
Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Fr...

Marineland Carnival: The Munsters Visit Marineland
1965
as Lily Munster
The Munsters take in the sights at Marineland.

Forbidden Temptations
1965
as Herself
Italian documentary film shot in several European towns (Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris, Venice) as well as in Rome's De Paolis Studios. The movie fea...

Law of the Lawless
1964
as Ellie Irish
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

A Global Affair
1964
as Dolores
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robe...

McLintock!
1963
as Louise Warren
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly ...

Timbuktu
1959
as Natalie Dufort
An American wheeler-dealer woos a colonel's wife amid danger at a French Foreign Legion fort.

The Sword and the Cross
1958
as Maria Maddalena
Mary Magdalene, a notorious harlot, must choose between her lascivious lifestyle and the love and affection of her decent-minded brother.

Band of Angels
1957
as Amantha Starr
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and...

Death of a Scoundrel
1956
as Bridget Kelly
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.

The Ten Commandments
1956
as Sephora
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal qu...

Raw Edge
1956
as Hannah Montgomery
A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother

Hot Cargo
1956
as Pearl Krauss
After marrying the captain of a tramp steamer in Hong Kong, a barmaid falls in love with a harbor policeman, but her frustration with her meager life ...

Flame of the Islands
1955
as Rosalind Dee
A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.

Magic Fire
1955
as Minna Planer
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and ...

Shotgun
1955
as Abby
a deputy U.S. Marshall pursue the gang of Ben Thompson after the murder of another marshall. Along with a bounty hunter and a half-breed woman they fo...

Passion
1954
as Rosa Melo / Tonya Melo
In old Spanish California, dashing cattleman Juan Obregon returns to the rancho of his friend Gaspar Melo, to find he's fathered a son on Rosa, one of...

The Contessa's Secret
1954
as La Castiglione - Virginia Oldoini
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

Happy Ever After
1954
as Serena McGlusky
The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes...

Border River
1954
as Carmelita Carias
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in thi...

The Backbone of America
1953
as Victoria Johnson
An account executive tries to find the perfect American family to use in a forthcoming advertising campaign.

The Captain's Paradise
1953
as Nita St. James
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather ...

Fort Algiers
1953
as Yvette
In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.

Sombrero
1953
as Maria of the River Road
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.

Sea Devils
1953
as Droucette
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells h...

Hurricane Smith
1952
as Luana Whitmore
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.

Scarlet Angel
1952
as Roxy McClanahan
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.

The San Francisco Story
1952
as Adelaide McCall
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn...

Silver City
1951
as Candace Surrency
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to ...

Hotel Sahara
1951
as Yasmin Pallas
World War II farce about the hotel of the title

Tomahawk
1951
as Julie Madden
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the...

The Desert Hawk
1950
as Princess Scheherazade
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

Buccaneer's Girl
1950
as Deborah McCoy
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
1949
as Calamity Jane
Drifter Sam Bass shows up in Denton, Texas (soon to host a great horse race) looking for work. Before long, he attracts the attention of pretty storek...

The Gal Who Took the West
1949
as Linda Marlowe
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949
as Yvonne De Carlo
This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to many Hollywood notables as they arrive at the famed g...

Criss Cross
1949
as Anna
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

River Lady
1948
as Sequin
In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance...

Casbah
1948
as Inez
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.

Black Bart
1948
as Lola Montez
Cheerful outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California, where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon, a lone gunman ...

Slave Girl
1947
as Francesca
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.

Brute Force
1947
as 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 e...

Song of Scheherazade
1947
as Cara de Talavera
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.

Frontier Gal
1945
as Lorena Dumont
Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon...

Salome, Where She Danced
1945
as Anna Marie
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawle...

Bring on the Girls
1945
as Hat check girl (uncredited)
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hote...

Practically Yours
1944
as Office Clerk (uncredited)
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembe...

Here Come the Waves
1944
as Wave (uncredited)
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabo...

Rainbow Island
1944
as Lona's Companion
Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the nati...

Kismet
1944
as Handmaiden
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the c...

The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
as Native Girl (uncredited)
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marb...

Standing Room Only
1944
as Secretary
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the housing shortage, are unable to find hotel rooms....

True to Life
1943
as Girl (uncredited)
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins t...

The Deerslayer
1943
as Princess Wah-Tah
Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Ji...

So Proudly We Hail
1943
as Girl (Uncredited)
During the start of the Pacific campaign in World War II, Lieutenant Janet Davidson is the head of a group of U.S. military nurses who are trapped beh...

Let's Face It
1943
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three custo...

Let's Face It
1943
as Chorus Girl
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three custo...

For Whom the Bell Tolls
1943
as Girl in Cafe (uncredited)
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side t...

No Time for Love
1943
as Showgirl (uncredited)
An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.

Salute for Three
1943
Press agent Jimmy Gates gets an idea while watching a New York parade, for a returned war hero Sergeant Buzz McAllister, with his chief client, singer...

The Crystal Ball
1943
as Secretary
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.

Rhythm Parade
1942
as Showgirl (uncredited)
A nightclub performer, jealous about the talents of an aspiring singer, tries to sabotage her chances at a professional career.

Road to Morocco
1942
as Dienerin (uncredited)
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

Youth on Parade
1942
as Student (uncredited)
In this musical, a gang of college students decide to play a little trick by creating the perfect student. The fictional gal has everything a universi...

This Gun for Hire
1942
as Showgirl at Neptune Club (uncredited)
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, ...
The Lamp of Memory
1942
Yvonne De Carlo sings herself to sleep, in her dreams she dances with a Latin dancer. She awakes to sing again.

The Kink of the Campus
1941
as Kitty O'Hara
Terry is framed by a rival so that he'll be ineligible to play in the big football game.

Harvard Here I Come
1941
as Bathing Girl (uncredited)
Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delig...

I Look at You
1941
as Herself
Alan Ladd was discovered by Sue Carol for his incredible voice in radio. And then she married him. In I Look At You, he is sweet and graceful. And at ...