Yvonne Furneaux, the glamorous actress who had memorable performances in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Le Amiche, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, has died. She was 98.
Furneaux died July 5 at her dwelling in North Hampton, New Hampshire, of problems from a stroke, her son, Nicholas Natteau, informed The Hollywood Reporter.
She additionally was the feminine lead within the Hammer horror movie The Mummy (1959), starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Although she thought-about the undertaking lower than ultimate, she stated she finally realized from these actors that “for those who don’t take a movie like The Mummy critically and put your coronary heart and soul into it, then you may convey it down,” she defined in Mark A. Miller’s 2010 e-book, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema.
She starred in Italian, French, German and Spanish movies throughout her profession.
In Le Amiche (1955), successful on the Venice Movie Pageant that proved to be Antonioni’s breakthrough film, Furneaux performed a vindictive socialite, and she or he was Emma, the desperately in love fiancée of Marcello Mastroianni’s tabloid journalist, within the Fellini masterpiece La Dolce Vita (1960).
In Polanski’s psychological thriller Repulsion (1965), she portrayed the older sister of Catherine Deneuve’s disturbed Carol Ledoux.
Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd was born to British dad and mom on Might 11, 1926, in Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. She and her household moved to England, and she or he attended St. Hilda’s Faculty and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Artwork, graduating in 1951.
Furneaux — that was her mom’s maiden title — appeared onstage in Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew and confirmed up in her first movies, Meet Me Tonight and the Merle Oberon-starring Affair in Monte Carlo, in 1952.
The following 12 months, she acted in The Beggar’s Opera, directed by Peter Brook and starring Laurence Olivier, and Michael Anderson’s The Home of the Arrow and portrayed Errol Flynn’s mistress in The Grasp of Ballantrae. (She additionally labored reverse Flynn in 1954’s Crossed Swords and 1955’s The Warriors.)
Her résumé additionally included the options Lisbon (1956), Claude Autant-Lara’s Le meurtrier (1963), The Demise Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964) and Claude Chabrol’s The Champagne Murders (1967) and a 1965 episode of the British TV present Hazard Man, starring Patrick McGoohan.
She was married to French cinematographer Jacques Natteau — they met whereas filming 1961’s The Story of The Depend of Monte Cristo — from 1962 till his demise in 2007. Survivors additionally embrace her daughter-in-law, Leiva.
