Yutte Stensgaard
A former au pair and model, Jytte Stensgaard emigrated to the UK in 1963, hoping to have a successful international film career. Changing her name to the slightly easier to pronounce "Yutte" Stensgaard she ironically didn't make her debut in a British film, but in the Italian movie The Girl with a Pistol (1968) (Girl with a Pistol) which did have some British backing. She then went on to appear in various British movies, mainly of the comedy or horror genre, most famously the lead role in Lust for a Vampire (1971), as well as several television guest roles. She also got a six-month stint hosting a game show with British king of comedy, Bob Monkhouse. After struggling with myopic casting directors, who could not see the beauty and budding talent before them and were happier to just keep casting more established but less beautiful women, Yutte finally gave up and emigrated to the USA in the mid-seventies and took up a job selling air time for a Christian radio station in Oregon. Understandably reluctant to make appearances at horror conventions when British film publicists finally started to notice her when it was too late, she did relent and start appearing at a select few in the late 1990s, giving the non-fickle amongst her fans a chance to see her unique radiance once more. An inimitable beauty the likes of which has never been seen since, Yutte Stensgaard was possibly the biggest loss to movies since that of Sharon Tate.
Lust for a Vampire
as Mircalla / Carmilla KarnsteinIn 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the...
Movie pageThe Girl with a Pistol
as Blonde at Party (uncredited)A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to...
Movie pageScream and Scream Again
as ErikaA serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to...
Movie pageZeta One
as Ann OlsenWomen around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the...
Movie pageSome Girls Do
as Robot No. 1A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing...
Movie pageCarry On Again Doctor
as Trolley Nurse (uncredited)Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming...
Movie pageBurke & Hare
as JanetTwo men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Movie pageA Promise of Bed
as Taxi GirlThree part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son...
Movie pageThe Buttercup Chain
as UllahBorn to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and...
Movie pageHammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Self (archive footage)A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror...
Movie pageFanex Files: Hammer Films
as SelfThis fascinating documentary tells the story of the talented people behind and in front of the...
Movie pageDoctor in Trouble
as Eve, ModelDr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a...
Movie pageThe World of Hammer: Vamp
as Mircalla / Carmilla KarnsteinThrough the years, Hammer's depiction of female vampires was consistently groundbreaking and...
Movie pageThe Saint
as Telephone OperatorSimon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...
TV Show pageThe Persuaders!
as Bibi BergmanAn English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
TV Show pageJason King
as uncreditedJason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world...
TV Show pageOn the Buses
as uncreditedOn the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in...
TV Show pageDead of Night
as uncreditedDead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the...
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