Yvonne Furneaux
Yvonne Furneaux (* 11. May 1926 in Roubaix as Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd ) is a French actress .
Life
Furneaux was born to a British father and a French mother, which means that she was raised multilingual. She came to the UK at the age of 20, where she trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . The good-looking young woman soon found tasks on the stage and in the film. She got her first small roles in English film, but later she also worked a lot in French and Italian productions. She mostly played spirited women in films of very different genres. Her appearance in The Friends (1955) by Michelangelo Antonioni is considered an artistically demanding role . In 1959 she appeared in the hammer horror film The Revenge of the Pharaohs on the side of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee . In Federico Fellini's classic film The Sweet Life , she played the role of Marcello Mastroianni's depressed fiancé Emma , who is in despair over her partner's infidelity. In 1965 she was seen in Roman Polanski's horror film Disgust as the older sister of the maddened Catherine Deneuve .
Furneaux's late films also include a number of German productions, for example she was in The Death Rays of Dr. Mabuse can be seen as the main female actress. After the mid-1960s, she increasingly withdrew from the film business, in 1984 she had one of her last appearances in the horror comedy Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie with Donald Pleasence . In 2006 she came back in front of the camera when she played his wife in the documentary about Erwin Rommel made by her son Nicholas .
From 1962 until his death, she was married to the cameraman Jacques Natteau , the couple has a son (Nicholas Natteau) and retired in Lausanne , Switzerland.
Filmography (selection)
- 1953: The Beggar's Opera (The Beggar's Opera)
- 1953: The Master of Ballantrae
- 1955: The Black Prince (The Dark Avenger)
- 1955: The girlfriends (corpse)
- 1955: Robin Hood, the black cavalier (Il principe dalla maschera rossa)
- 1956: Lisbon secret center (Lisbon)
- 1959: The Revenge of the Pharaohs (The Mummy)
- 1960: The sweet life (La Dolce Vita)
- 1961: Agent 0-1-7 on a hot track (Caccia all'uomo)
- 1961: The Count of Monte Christo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
- 1961: The black riders of Tula (I lancieri neri)
- 1962: Slaves of the Semiramis (Io, Semiramide)
- 1963: The Murderer (Le meurtrier)
- 1964: The Lion of Thebes (Il leone di Tebe)
- 1964: The death rays of Dr. Mabuse
- 1965: disgust (repulsion)
- 1967: Champagne Killer (Le Scandale)
- 1971: Evening without an alibi (In nome del popolo italiano)
- 1971: The Panther of Soho (The Man in the Looking Glass)
- 1972: Temptation in the summer wind
- 1984: Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
- 2006: Rommel and the Plot Against Hitler (docudrama)
Web links
- Yvonne Furneaux in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography about Yvonne Furneaux at L'ENCINÉMATHÈQUE (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the Roubaix birth register: Extrait de naissance n ° 927/1926
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 148.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Furneaux, Yvonne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fourneaux, Yvonne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roubaix |