Evelyn Ankers
- Date of birth:
- 1918
- Date of death:
- 1985
- Mini Bio:
- Evelyn Ankers was a British actress born in Chile, noted for playing the cultured young leading lady in many American horror films during the 1940s, most famously The Wolf Man at age 23 opposite Lon Chaney, Jr., a frequent screen partner. Known as "the Queen of the Screamers", her other films include The Mad Ghoul , Jungle Woman (1944), Weird Woman (1944), The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944), and The Frozen Ghost (1945). Ankers also appeared in Hold That Ghost (1941), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), The Pearl of Death (1944), Pardon My Rhythm (1944), Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), and played Calamity Jane in The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950), for which she received top billing. Ankers made over fifty films between 1936 and 1950, then retired from movies to be a housewife (occasionally playing television roles) at the age of 32, returning ten years later to make one more film, No Greater Love (1960), with husband Richard Denning.
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