| Evelyn Ankers | |
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| Born | Valparaiso, Chile |
| Years active | 1936–1960 |
| Spouse | Richard Denning 1942-1985 (her death) |
Evelyn Ankers (17 August 1918 – 29 August 1985), "The Queen of the Screamers" was a British-American actress born in Chile. She often played variations on the role of the cultured young lady in many Universal Horror films of the 1940s, most notably The Wolf Man (1941) at age 23 opposite Lon Chaney, Jr., a frequent screen partner.
Ankers made over fifty films between 1936 and 1950, then retired from movies to be a housewife. She occasionally played television roles and returned ten years later to make one more film, No Greater Love (1960), with her husband Richard Denning.
She died of ovarian cancer at the age of 67 in Maui, Hawaii.
Horror filmography[]
- Hold That Ghost (1941)
- The Wolf Man (1941)
- The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
- Captive Wild Woman (1943)
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- The Mad Ghoul (1943)
- Jungle Woman (1944)
- Weird Woman (1944)
- The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
- The Frozen Ghost (1945).