Carmen Yazalde

Born: 1950-05-29

Britt Nichols was born in Gonçalo, Guarda, Portugal in 1950 as María do Carmo Ressurreição de Deus. Coming from a extremely impoverished home where many of her siblings passed away in childhood, she found a way out through the entertainment industry, first starting as a folk dancer, and then being noticed by modeling agents and filmmakers. She made her first notable screen appearance as a human sacrifice to skeletal Templar zombies in Amando de Ossorio's atmospheric Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972), which was popular enough to spawn three sequels. Afterward, she appeared in major roles in seven exploitation films for director Jesus Franco, mostly in the horror genre. She had the titular role in Daughter of Dracula (1972), played a suspected witch in The Demons (1973) and played another bloodsucker in Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972). Usually best regarded among the Franco period she took part in was A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973), where she played a bizarre member of a bizarre family gathering for the reading of a will. Britt also acted for Juan Bosch in one film: Killer with a Thousand Eyes (1973). After acting for just a few years, Britt married famous Argentine soccer player Casimiro Yazalde (then with Sporting Clube de Portugal) and relocated to Argentina with him in 1977, where she became a celebrity and worked as a runway, print and advertisement model under the name Carmen Yazalde. She still makes the occasional TV appearance.


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A Virgin Among the Living Dead

as Carmencé
Released: 1973-11-15

A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading...

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Tombs of the Blind Dead

as Sacrificed maiden (uncredited)
Released: 1972-04-10

In 13th century Berzano, a legion of knights known as the Templar were executed for conducting...

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The Demons

as Margaret
Released: 1973-02-05

A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during...

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The Killer with a Thousand Eyes

as Susan Meredith
Released: 1974-03-25

A special detective is sent to Lisbon in order to investigate a series of murders. After looking...

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The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

as Madame Orloff
Released: 1973-05-31

Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for...

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Daughter of Dracula

as Luisa Karlstein (as Britt Nichols)
Released: 1972-12-14

Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she...

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Virgin Report

as uncredited
Released: 1972-01-01

Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of...

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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein

as Vampir Girl
Released: 1972-10-17

Dracula kills another innocent victim and Dr. Seward decides it's time to wipe him off the face...

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Lovers of Devil's Island

as Maria
Released: 1973-10-25

A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and...

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Los reyes del sablazo

as uncredited
Released: 1984-02-16

Luisa discovers in the briefcase of Alberto, her husband, a fiery love letter, in which he is...

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