Evelyn Ankers

AKA: Evelyn Felisa Ankers

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1918-08-17

Valparaíso, Chile

Biography

Evelyn Felisa Ankers (August 17, 1918 - August 29, 1985) was an American actress best known for playing roles in American horror films during the 1940s.

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Elsa Frankenstein

1942-03-13 5.801

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a ram ...

Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Claire Caldwell

1943-11-05 5.9

Son of Dracula

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world. ...

Genre :Horror

Kitty

1942-09-18 6.5

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffle ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Naomi Drake

1944-08-01 7.1

The Pearl of Death

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Horror

Gwen Conliffe

1941-12-12 7

The Wolf Man

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf. ...

Genre :Horror, Drama

Julie Herrick

1944-06-09 5.6

The Invisible Man's Revenge

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also ...

Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Dorothy Osborne

1938-01-01 0

Murder in the Family

After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder. ...

Genre :Thriller

Molly Frame

1938-01-01 0

Second Thoughts

A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder. ...

Genre :Thriller

Cameo Appearance

1943-10-08 5

Crazy House

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management an ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Norma Lind

1941-08-07 6.8

Hold That Ghost

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with s ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror

Maura Daniel

1945-06-01 6.3

The Frozen Ghost

When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks of ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Illona Carr

1944-03-01 5.9

Weird Woman

After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Jojo Dumont

1948-11-24 4.727

Parole, Inc.

A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Self

2000-09-11 6.819

The American Nightmare

An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society. ...

Genre :Documentary, Horror

Isabel Lewis

1943-11-12 5.9

The Mad Ghoul

A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover. ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

Beth Colman

1943-06-04 5.23

Captive Wild Woman

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life. ...

Genre :Horror, Science Fiction

Priscilla Ames

1945-09-15 5.833

The Fatal Witness

A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Janet Morgan

1946-05-18 5

The French Key

Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coi ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery, Adventure

Lady Muriel Dominey

1942-12-18 5.8

The Great Impersonation

An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

Claire Caldwell (archive footage)

1991-01-01 10

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

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

Genre :Documentary, Horror

Elsa (archive footage)

1991-01-01 5.7

Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen. ...

Genre :Documentary, Science Fiction, Horror

Gloria James

1949-02-05 5.5

Tarzan's Magic Fountain

An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Alice Munro

1947-08-01 5

Last of the Redmen

A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives bir ...

Genre :Western

Crystal McCoy

1946-07-24 0

Queen of Burlesque

Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Calamity Jane

1950-11-15 0

The Texan Meets Calamity Jane

A western in which Calamity Jane's rightful ownership of a gambling hall is challenged. She nearly loses the business to a shady crook, but Texas lawyer Ellison puts up a legal battle to help her stay ...

Genre :Western

Joan Raymond

1938-01-01 6.2

The Villiers Diamond

A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Catherine Forrest

1946-09-30 4.7

Flight to Nowhere

A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets. ...

Genre :Mystery

Evelyn Carrington

1946-08-29 5.4

Black Beauty

Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives bi ...

Genre :Drama, Family

Beth Mason

1944-06-01 4.9

Jungle Woman

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a whi ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

Laura Reed

1947-04-23 5

Spoilers of the North

When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who have unlimited fishing rights, into illegally sell ...

Genre :Drama

Miss Stoner

1949-03-25 0

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder. Filmed on the expe ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Sanitarium Patient (uncredited)

1939-10-12 5.3

Over the Moon

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has ...

Genre :Comedy

Evelyn Ankers (uncredited)

1944-05-05 5.3

Follow the Boys

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, War

Elizabeth Campbell

1943-11-26 7.1

His Butler's Sister

Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Party Guest

1937-02-19 6.1

Wings of the Morning

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Lady-in-Waiting

1937-03-05 6.2

Fire Over England

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England ...

Genre :History, Drama, Romance

Ruth McCabe

1955-01-08 0

Dark Stranger

A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out. ...

Genre :Mystery, Romance, Crime, Drama

Wilhelmina Van Kronk

1944-02-02 3.5

Ladies Courageous

Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII. ...

Genre :War, Adventure, Drama

Nancy Mitchell

1942-06-16 5.5

Eagle Squadron

An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl. ...

Genre :Romance, War, Drama

Ann McBragel

1941-10-16 0

Burma Convoy

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers. ...

Genre :Adventure, Action

Celia Wellsby

1942-07-29 4

Pierre of the Plains

A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper. ...

Genre :Drama, Adventure

Patience Ryan

1941-06-27 0

Hit the Road

Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war. ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

Mary Sloan

1942-01-23 6.8

North to the Klondike

Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws. ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance, War

Jean Wells

1943-06-11 0

All by Myself

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jea ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Iris Chatham

1947-11-13 5.5

The Lone Wolf in London

Michael Lanyard is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned ...

Genre :Mystery

Flo Simpson

1943-07-16 6.9

Hers to Hold

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy ...

Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Bonnie LaTour

1944-11-03 0

Bowery to Broadway

Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts. ...

Genre :Comedy

Sheila

1943-03-01 5.5

Keep 'Em Slugging

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hi ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, War

Rosemary Shackleford

1938-09-04 0

The Claydon Treasure Mystery

"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wea ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lynn Smith

1943-10-22 3.5

You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith

A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Beth Chase

1941-06-04 0

Bachelor Daddy

The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby. ...

Genre :Comedy

Julia Munson

1944-05-01 5.5

Pardon My Rhythm

A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Helen Lund

1960-01-01 0

No Greater Love

A dentist and his wife join Christian missionaries for duty in Africa. ...

Genre :Family

Self (archive footage)

1999-01-01 6.9

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

Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker expl ...

Genre :Documentary

Party Girl (uncredited)

1936-11-06 6.8

Rembrandt

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of h ...

Genre :Drama, History

Self - (archive footage)

2025-11-21 0

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cinema from Dracula (1931) to today. ...

Genre :

Robbie James

1955-09-20 6.023

Cheyenne

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE i ...

Genre :Western, Drama

1953-02-01 6.4

General Electric Theater

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Rel ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1955-10-05 5.4

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox ...

Genre :Drama

1952-10-01 3.5

Cavalcade of America

Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies ...

Genre :Drama

1952-10-03 4.3

Mr. & Mrs. North

Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he i ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Ruth McCabe

1955-01-08 7

The Star and the Story

Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the successful team by Four Star Productions, there are many young actors that went onto bigger things. ...

Genre :

Miss Loving

1955-10-05 6.5

Screen Director's Playhouse

Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas. ...