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Evelyn Ankers

Evelyn Ankers

Highest Rated: 100% Hold That Ghost (1941)

Lowest Rated: 40% Captive Wild Woman (1943)

Birthday: Aug 17, 1918

Birthplace: Valparaiso, Chile

Blonde British actress, born in Chile, who, after stage experience and a modest career in British films, went to Hollywood where she was nicknamed "Queen of the Horrors" and "The Screamer" because of the numerous "B" horror and action movies in which she starred during the 1940s, mostly at Universal. Ankers' best-remembered film is probably "The Wolf Man" (1941), which confirmed Lon Chaney Jr.'s status as a horror star. Married to actor Richard Denning in 1942, she virtually retired from film in 1950 and moved with her husband to Hawaii in 1968.

Highest rated movies

100% Hold That Ghost
91% The Wolf Man
73% The Ghost of Frankenstein
60% Son of Dracula
40% The Invisible Man's Revenge
40% Captive Wild Woman

Photos

LADIES COURAGEOUS, Evelyn Ankers, in a Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) uniform, 1944 LADIES COURAGEOUS, Evelyn Ankers, 1944 SON OF DRACULA, Evelyn Ankers, 1943 WEIRD WOMAN, from left, Lon Chaney, Jr., Evelyn Ankers, 1944 THE WOLF MAN, Lon Chaney Jr, Evelyn Ankers, 1941 THE WOLF MAN, Lon Chaney Jr., Evelyn Ankers, 1941 THE WOLF MAN, (from left): Evelyn Ankers, Lon Chaney Jr., 1941 THE WOLF MAN, Evelyn Ankers, Lon Chaney Jr., 1941 TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN, Brenda Joyce, Alan Napier, Evelyn Ankers, Charles Drake, Albert Dekker, 1949 THE FROZEN GHOST, from left, Evelyn Ankers, Lon Chaney, Jr., Elena Verdugo, 1945 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR, Basil Rathbone, Evelyn Ankers, 1942 THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, Evelyn Ankers, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, 1942 TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN, Charles Drake, Albert Dekker, Brenda Joyce, Evelyn Ankers, Alan Napier, 1949 WEIRD WOMAN, Anne Gwynne, Lon Chaney, Evelyn Ankers, 1944 THE MAD GHOUL, David Bruce, George Zucco, Turhan Bey, Evelyn Ankers, 1943 NORTH TO THE KLONDIKE, Evelyn Ankers, Broderick Crawford, 1942 THE WOLF MAN, Lon Chaney, Evelyn Ankers, Patric Knowles, 1941 THE MAD GHOUL, Evelyn Ankers, Turhan Bey, David Bruce, 1943 SPOILERS OF THE NORTH, from left: Harlan Briggs, Evelyn Ankers, James Millican, Lorna Gray (as Adrian Booth), Paul Kelly, 1947 THE WOLF MAN, from left: Lon Chaney Jr., Evelyn Ankers, 1941
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Texan Meets Calamity Jane Calamity Jane (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 22% Tarzan's Magic Fountain Gloria James Jessup (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 50% Parole, Inc. Jojo Dumont (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spoilers of the North Laura Reed (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last of the Redmen Alice Munro (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Flight to Nowhere Catherine Forrest (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Beauty Evelyn Carrington (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet Queen of Burlesque Crystal McCoy (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet The French Key Janet Morgan (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fatal Witness Priscilla Ames (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 27% The Frozen Ghost Maura Daniel (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet 20% Jungle Woman Beth Mason (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 76% The Pearl of Death Naomi Drake (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 42% Weird Woman Illona Carr (Character) - 1944
40% 22% The Invisible Man's Revenge Julie Herrick (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pardon My Rhythm Julia Munson (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 12% The Mad Ghoul Isabel Lewis (Character) - 1943
40% 7% Captive Wild Woman Beth Colman (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 50% Hers to Hold Flo Simpson (Character) - 1943
60% 33% Son of Dracula Claire Caldwell (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Keep 'Em Slugging Sheila Banning (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet All by Myself Jean Wells (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 60% His Butler's Sister Elizabeth Campbell (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 53% Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror Kitty (Character) - 1942
73% 41% The Ghost of Frankenstein Elsa Frankenstein (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Impersonation Lady Muriel Dominey (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet North to the Klondike Mary Sloan (Character) - 1942
91% 80% The Wolf Man Gwen Conliffe (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Burma Convoy Ann McBragel (Character) - 1941
100% 90% Hold That Ghost Norma Lind (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 33% Over the Moon Sanitairum Patient (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Villiers Diamond Joan Raymond (Character) - 1938

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cheyenne Unknown (Guest Star) 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet The 20th Century-Fox Hour Unknown (Character) 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Screen Directors Playhouse Unknown (Character) 1955