Yutte Stensgaard

Born: 1946-05-14

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.


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Lust for a Vampire

as Mircalla / Carmilla Karnstein
Released: 1971-01-17

In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the...

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The Girl with a Pistol

as Blonde at Party (uncredited)
Released: 1968-09-20

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to...

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Scream and Scream Again

as Erika
Released: 1970-02-02

A serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to...

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Zeta One

as Ann Olsen
Released: 1969-12-01

Women around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the...

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Some Girls Do

as Robot No. 1
Released: 1969-01-23

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing...

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Carry On Again Doctor

as Trolley Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1969-12-05

Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming...

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Burke & Hare

as Janet
Released: 1972-02-03

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.

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A Promise of Bed

as Taxi Girl
Released: 1969-12-01

Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son...

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The Buttercup Chain

as Ullah
Released: 1970-09-24

Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and...

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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1987-06-26

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror...

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Fanex Files: Hammer Films

as Self
Released: 2008-02-08

This fascinating documentary tells the story of the talented people behind and in front of the...

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Doctor in Trouble

as Eve, Model
Released: 1970-06-16

Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a...

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The World of Hammer: Vamp

as Mircalla / Carmilla Karnstein
Released: 1994-09-01

Through the years, Hammer's depiction of female vampires was consistently groundbreaking and...

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The Saint

as Telephone Operator
First aired: 1962-10-04

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who...

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The Persuaders!

as Bibi Bergman
First aired: 1971-09-17

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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Jason King

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-15

Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world...

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On the Buses

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-02-28

On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in...

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Dead of Night

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-11-05

Dead of Night was a British television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the...

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