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Carol Lynley is a Actor American born on 13 february 1942 at New York City (USA)

Carol Lynley

Carol Lynley
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Birth name Carol Ann Jones
Nationality USA
Birth 13 february 1942 at New York City (USA)
Death 3 september 2019 (at 77 years)

Carol Lynley (born February 13, 1942) is an American actress and former child model.

Biography

Carrière


Avant ses premiers pas au cinéma pour le film de Disney Lueur dans la forêt (1958), le numéro du 22 avril 1957 de Life consacre cinq pages à la comédienne alors âgée de 15 ans.

Les débuts sont rapides pour cette jeune fille blonde aux yeux bleus avec Robert Aldrich dans El Perdido ou Otto Preminger dans Le Cardinal. Elle incarne Alison McKenzie dans Les lauriers sont coupés ou la célèbre blonde platine dans Harlow.

Bunny Lake a disparu (d'Otto Preminger) reste sa meilleure création.

Elle fut pressentie pour être l'héroïne de Bonnie and Clyde (rôle finalement dévolu à Faye Dunaway).
Parmi d'autres acteurs, L'Aventure du Poséidon est son dernier film important. Ensuite, elle enchaîne une série de films B (souvent d'horreur) et a été la guest-star de nombreux téléfilms et séries télévisées (entre autres l'épisode des Envahisseurs : « Les défenseurs »). Et elle a également joué dans plusieurs épisodes de L'Île fantastique.


Vie privée
En 1960, elle epouse le publiciste Michael Selsman. Ils ont eu une fille, Jill Selsman, devenue réalisatrice de films en court métrage et leur mariage se termine par un divorce en 1964.

L'année suivante, elle pose nue pour le numéro de mars 1965 de Playboy (mais non comme playmate) , dans un article intitulé « Carol Lynley Grows Up » (pages 108-115).


Décès
Elle meurt le 3 septembre 2019, âgée de 77 ans, d'une attaque cardiaque à son domicile californien de Pacific Palisades .

Best films

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
(Actress)
The Cardinal (1963)
(Actress)
The Last Sunset (1961)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Carol Lynley (36 films)

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Actress

Vic
Vic (2006)
, 30minutes
Directed by Sage Stallone
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Clu Gulager, Tom Gulager, Miriam Byrd Nethery, Sage Stallone, Gregory Sierra, Carol Lynley
Roles Carrie Lee
Rating76% 3.848843.848843.848843.848843.84884
Clu Gulager plays a “down-on-his-luck” actor who gets a mysterious phone call. Haunted by memories of his former glory days, Vic struggles for a Hollywood comeback.
Howling VI: The Freaks, 1h42
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Bruce Payne, Antonio Fargas, Carol Lynley, Deep Roy, Al White, James E. Webb
Roles Miss Eddington
Rating42% 2.112192.112192.112192.112192.11219
Ian, a likeable but severely solitary drifter, takes a job making repairs at the local church in the barren rural town of Canton Bluff. Eschewing human contact, Ian seems unnaturally leery of the impending full moon. Aware that Ian is a genuine werewolf, R.B. Harker (the owner of a traveling carnival) captures and forces the young man to work for his carnival, where he is put on display with other human oddities. To further complicate matters, Harker is revealed to have a monstrous secret of his own - he is a vampire.
Blackout
Blackout (1988)

Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Gail O'Grady, Carol Lynley, Joanna Miles
Roles Esther Boyle
Rating56% 2.818542.818542.818542.818542.81854
Dark Tower
Dark Tower (1987)
, 1h31
Directed by Freddie Francis, Ken Wiederhorn
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Carol Lynley, Theodore Bikel, Kevin McCarthy, Anne Lockhart
Roles Tilly
Rating42% 2.1109752.1109752.1109752.1109752.110975
After a window washer plunges to his death from a Barcelona high rise, several people come to investigate, including security consultant Dennis Randall (Michael Moriarty). He cannot locate a problem, but decides to investigate further when more gruesome deaths take place inside and around the office building. His investigations prove that there is a sinister force behind all the deaths, a supernatural entity, that is not about to stop.
Vigilante
Vigilante (1983)
, 1h30
Directed by William Lustig
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Auto-justice
Actors Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright, Rutanya Alda, Joe Spinell, Carol Lynley
Roles Assistant D.A. Mary Fletcher
Rating64% 3.2473353.2473353.2473353.2473353.247335
Eddie Marino (Robert Forster) is a factory worker in New York City. He has a wife named Vickie (Rutanya Alda) and an eight-year-old son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker, Nick (Fred Williamson), and two other co-workers, Burke and Ramon, have formed a secret vigilante group because Nick and the group are fed up with the crime in their neighborhoods. Nick and his group are also tired of the police, because the police always fail to protect people. Nick's "group" has support of various residents of the neighborhood who indirectly help them. In one example, a local thug stalks and chases a young woman to a rooftop of an apartment building where the thug robs and then kills her. An old lady who witnesses the thug says nothing to the police, but points out the thug to Nick and his group the next day. Nick and his friends forcibly grab the thug off the streets and place him in their van and drive away. The thug is later found dead in a vacant lot with all of his arms and legs broken and his head bashed in.
The Shape of Things to Come, 1h38
Directed by George McCowan
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction
Actors Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse, John Ireland, Nicholas Campbell, Anne-Marie Martin
Roles Nikki
Rating32% 1.6241651.6241651.6241651.6241651.624165
Après des années de guerre des robots, la Terre retrouve son calme mais n'est plus qu'un grand champ de ruines. Les survivants sont contraints de se réfugier sur la lune. Alors qu'elle a à peine immigré, la communauté doit faire face au tyran Omus et à son armée de droïdes qui veulent éradiquer définitivement la race humaine...
The Shape of Things to Come, 1h38
Directed by George McCowan
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera, Disaster films
Actors Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse, John Ireland, Nicholas Campbell, Anne-Marie Martin
Roles Nikki
Rating32% 1.6241651.6241651.6241651.6241651.624165
Sometime in the future, Earth is recovering from "The Robot Wars" that devastated the planet seven years earlier. Most of humanity now lives on the Moon within a domed city called New Washington, but their survival depends on an anti-radiation drug called Raddic-Q2 which is manufactured on the distant planet Delta 3.
The Cat and the Canary, 1h38
Directed by Radley Metzger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Olivia Hussey, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Roles Annabelle West
Rating56% 2.804632.804632.804632.804632.80463
On the 20th anniversary of his death, the remaining relatives of Cyrus West (Wilfred Hyde-White) are called to his mansion to view the filmed reading of his will. Cyrus lets it be known how much he despised and loathed his kin by setting up a dogfight for the fortune and revealing that Annabelle West (Carol Lynley) is to be the sole beneficiary. However, to claim the inheritance, Annabelle must spend the night in the house with the rest of the family and be deemed sane the next morning. A doctor from the asylum up the road, Dr Hendricks (Edward Fox), arrives and informs the guests that a homicidal maniac, has escaped and is hiding out in the area. With a history of insanity in the family, a mansion replete with secret rooms and corridors and "The Cat" murderer on the loose, the night becomes a tale of gruesome murders, suspense, and, ultimately, revelations.
Flood!
Flood! (1977)
, 1h40
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Culp, Martin Milner, Barbara Hershey, Richard Basehart, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall
Roles Abbie Adams
Rating52% 2.611622.611622.611622.611622.61162
Après plusieurs semaines de pluie torentielle, les habitants soucieux de la sécurité de la petite ville de Brownsville demandent à leur maire d'ouvrir les vannes pour faire sortir le surplus d'eau du barrage mais ce dernier refuse. La construction cède et c'est la panique pour les quelques habitants qui vont devoir faire l'impossible pour survivre.
Bad Georgia Road, 1h26
Directed by George Buck Flower
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Gary Lockwood, Carol Lynley, Royal Dano, Mary Woronov, George Buck Flower, Jill Jacobson
Roles Molly Golden
Rating50% 2.512272.512272.512272.512272.51227
A New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.
The Poseidon Adventure, 1h57
Directed by Irwin Allen, Ronald Neame
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Adam Baldwin, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall
Roles Nonnie Parry
Rating70% 3.549793.549793.549793.549793.54979
The SS Poseidon, an ocean liner slated for retirement and scrapping, makes her way across the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea from New York City to Athens. Despite protests from Captain Harrison, who fears for the ship's safety, the representative of her new owners, Mr. Linarcos, insists that she make full speed towards her destination to save money, preventing her from taking on additional ballast.
Beware! The Blob, 1h31
Directed by Larry Hagman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films
Actors Robert Walker Jr., Carol Lynley, Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl, Richard Webb, Marlene Clark
Roles Leslie
Rating41% 2.0657852.0657852.0657852.0657852.065785
Left off after the events of the first movie The Blob, an oil pipeline layer named Chester (Godfrey Cambridge) returns to his suburban Los Angeles home from the North Pole, bringing with him a small sample of a mysterious frozen substance uncovered by a bulldozer on a job site. Prior to taking the blob to a lab to be analyzed, he places the storage container with the substance in his freezer, but he and his wife (Marlene Clark) accidentally let it thaw, releasing "the Blob". It starts by eating a fly, then a kitten, Chester's wife, and then Chester himself (while he is watching a television broadcast of the film The Blob).
Norwood
Norwood (1970)
, 1h36
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Road movies
Actors Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Carol Lynley, Pat Hingle, Tisha Sterling, Dom DeLuise
Roles Yvonne Phillips
Rating53% 2.666532.666532.666532.666532.66653
Norwood Pratt (Campbell) has just finished his enlistment in the United States Marine Corps and is on his way home from Vietnam. A musician, his one great ambition is to appear on the radio program Louisiana Hayride.
Weekend of Terror, 1h14
Directed by Jud Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Robert Conrad, Carol Lynley, Lois Nettleton, Jane Wyatt, Lee Majors, Kevin Hagen
Roles Sister Meredith
Rating57% 2.8592752.8592752.8592752.8592752.859275
A nun returning from a sabbatical is met at a bus station by two of her colleagues. En route to their convent their car breaks down on a desert road and they decide to flag down a passing motorist. Meanwhile 2 escaped convicts have abducted a local businessman's niece with a view to collecting a ransom, only to have the woman fall on her head and die while attempting to flee the abandoned house they are holed up in. Larry, ( Majors) the kidnapper under whose watch the victim died, passes the nuns in their disabled Plymouth Valiant and decides to stop. The nuns mistake him for a helpful motorist and he tows them with his Volkswagen Type II to his hideout (in the opposite direction from Victorville where repair facilities would be accessible). The nuns soon learn their fate and are held hostage in a locked room with boards nailed over the windows. The kidnappers devise a plan to get the ransom money from the rich uncle (who is unaware his niece is dead) by having one of the nuns pose as the dead girl. Larry orders Eddie ( Conrad) to take Sister Ellen ( Nettleton) to a wig shop and to a phone booth that she might call her convent and give false information to explain their not showing up. Eddie is something of an unwitting party, not wishing to commit further crimes and at one point directs the hostages to hide and tells Larry they escaped earlier. Eventually the captives are discovered hiding in a closet by Larry after which a commotion occurs and he is killed by his own gun. Eddie feels forced to take Sister Ellen hostage and attempts to flee by stealing a light aircraft but before he get away there is a climactic scene on the runway.