Elena Verdugo

Born: 1925-04-20

Elena Angela Verdugo was an American actress who began in films at the age of five in Cavalier of the West. Her career in radio, television and film spanned six decades. In her film career she was often typecast in roles as gypsies, harem dancers, peasant girls, Indian maidens and senoritas over the years before TV instigated the second stretch of her career.


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Cyrano de Bergerac

as Orange Girl
Released: 1950-11-16

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the...

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House of Frankenstein

as Ilonka
Released: 1944-12-01

Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a...

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Blood and Sand

as Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
Released: 1941-05-30

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who...

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Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1999-01-01

Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf...

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How Sweet It Is!

as Vera Wax
Released: 1968-08-21

All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip,...

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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

as Self
Released: 2014-08-01

Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat,...

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Belle Starr

as Young Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1941-09-12

After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain...

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Down Argentine Way

as Argentine Dancer (uncredited)
Released: 1940-10-11

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an...

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The Moon and Sixpence

as Ata
Released: 1942-10-27

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged...

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Thief of Damascus

as Neela
Released: 1952-04-01

A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan.

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The Lost Tribe

as Li Wanna
Released: 1949-04-19

Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would...

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The Return of Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Consuelo Lopez
Released: 1984-05-16

Marcus Welby is back, and he has a few problems. First he is trying to bridge the gap between an...

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Song of Scheherazade

as Fioretta
Released: 1947-02-26

A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.

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The Lost Volcano

as Nona
Released: 1950-06-25

Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred, along with their servant...

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Tuna Clipper

as Bianca Pereira
Released: 1949-04-11

Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a...

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Little Giant

as Martha Hill
Released: 1946-02-22

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the...

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Angel in My Pocket

as Lila
Released: 1969-04-02

The new minister in a small town faces the challenge of winning over its eccentric citizens.

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The Frozen Ghost

as Nina Coudreau
Released: 1945-06-01

When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die...

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Strange Voyage

as Carmelita Lopez
Released: 1946-07-06

A group of men go on an expedition seeking sunken treasure, and wind up battling bad weather,...

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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

as IIonka (archive footage)
Released: 1991-01-01

A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.

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The Alpha Caper

as Hilda
Released: 1973-10-06

A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a...

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Sky Dragon

as Connie Jackson
Released: 1949-04-27

All the passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, and when they wake up,...

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The Pathfinder

as Lokawa
Released: 1952-12-09

Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians, joins forces with the British army to...

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Gene Autry and the Mounties

as Marie Duval
Released: 1951-01-30

Montana Marshals Gene and Scat are tracking some bank robbers. When the baddies cross into...

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Day of the Nightmare

as Miss Devi
Released: 1965-10-01

A young wife's marriage begins to crumble after she's attacked by a knife-wielding woman whom...

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The Big Sombrero

as Estrellita Estrada
Released: 1949-04-19

Gene is hired to be foreman of the Big Sombrero ranch by Jim Garland, who is handling all the...

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The Marksman

as Jane Warren
Released: 1953-04-10

Mike Martin becomes a deputy marshal and takes on a gang of cattle rustlers.

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Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces

as Self
Released: 1995-10-25

Born Creighton Chaney, this is a biographical documentary on Lon Chaney Jr, the only star to...

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The Boss' Son

as Betty
Released: 1978-10-02

Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working...

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Shed No Tears

as Marilyn
Released: 1948-06-09

A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance...

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Rainbow Island

as Moana
Released: 1944-10-05

Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come...

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Panama Sal

as Sal Regan
Released: 1957-10-18

The story finds Sal Regan singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive....

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The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan

as Self
Released: 2004-08-22

The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84),...

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Cavalier of the West

as Little Girl
Released: 1931-11-15

Burgess and Greeley are rustling horses and shooting Indians. When they kill Manual they frame...

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Snow Dog

as Andrée Blanchard
Released: 1950-07-16

The third installment in low-budget producer Lindsley Parson's "Chinook" series, Snow Dog was...

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Jet Job

as Elena Verdugo
Released: 1952-04-06

Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a...

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El Dorado Pass

as Dolores
Released: 1948-10-13

Charles Starrett returns as The Durango Kid in Columbia's El Dorado Pass. It all begins when...

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Ironside

as Liz Cervantes
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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Petticoat Junction

as Mary Jane Hastings
First aired: 1963-09-24

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...

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Love, American Style

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-09-29

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in...

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Daniel Boone

as Violet Morton
First aired: 1964-09-24

Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel...

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Mannix

as Eva Brock
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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Route 66

as Elena
First aired: 1960-10-07

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...

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Scarecrow and Mrs. King

as Mrs. Coleman
First aired: 1983-10-03

Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May...

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Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Consuelo Lopez
First aired: 1969-09-23

Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from...

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Rawhide

as Marie Carroyo
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Karen Keddy
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

as Consuelo Lopez
First aired: 1971-09-16

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and...

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Law of the Plainsman

as Connie Drake
First aired: 1959-10-01

Law of the Plainsman is a Western television series starring Michael Ansara that aired on the...

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Dangerous Assignment

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-01-01

A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star...

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Cavalcade of America

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-10-01

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company,...

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Redigo

as Gerry
First aired: 1963-09-24

Redigo is a 15-week Western dramatic series, set on a New Mexico ranch during the early 1960s,...

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