Acting

Yolande Donlan

Born June 2, 1920 · Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Died December 30, 2014 · aged 94

Yolande Donlan (born June 2, 1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American actress who has worked extensively in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of James Donlan, who was a hard working character actor in Hollywood films of the 1930s. It is thought that she had some uncredited roles in films including Pennies From Heaven and Love Finds Andy Hardy immediately following her father's death …

Known For

The Adventurers

The Adventurers · 1970

The Adventurers

MovieDramaAction

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.

Traveller's Joy

Traveller's Joy · 1950

Traveller's Joy

A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.

Dark Streets of Cairo

Dark Streets of Cairo · 1940

Dark Streets of Cairo

MovieAdventureMystery

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

Turnabout

Turnabout · 1940

MovieComedyFantasy

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

Cross-Country Romance

Cross-Country Romance · 1940

Cross-Country Romance

MovieComedyRomance

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat · 1940

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects · 1963

80,000 Suspects

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo · 1959

MovieComedyMusic

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

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The Adventurers

The Adventurers · 1970

The Adventurers

MovieDramaAction

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.

Mrs. Erickson

Traveller's Joy

Traveller's Joy · 1950

Traveller's Joy

A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.

Lil Fowler

Dark Streets of Cairo

Dark Streets of Cairo · 1940

Dark Streets of Cairo

MovieAdventureMystery

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

Maggie Malone, aka Margo Molina

Turnabout

Turnabout · 1940

MovieComedyFantasy

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

Marie, the Maid (as Yolande Mollot)

Cross-Country Romance

Cross-Country Romance · 1940

Cross-Country Romance

MovieComedyRomance

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

Jennie

The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat · 1940

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.

Maxine

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects · 1963

80,000 Suspects

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Ruth Preston

Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo · 1959

MovieComedyMusic

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

Dixie Collins

Mr. Drake's Duck

Mr. Drake's Duck · 1951

Mr. Drake's Duck

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.

Penny Drake

Jigsaw

MovieMysteryCrime

A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield. _-= Based on the novel "Sleep Long My Love" by Hillary Waugh and Inspired by the Brighton Trunk Murders of the late 1930's =-_

Jean Sherman

Seven Nights in Japan

Seven Nights in Japan · 1976

Seven Nights in Japan

MovieComedyDrama

Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and smiling broadly, he goes through the complicated formalities of being greeted by a host nation. But housed with the Ambassador and his family, the Prince finds the atmosphere stuffy and dull; he longs for freedom and, for once, rebels against his upbringing with all its constraints and responsibilities, escaping for a week of romance, and unexpected drama…

American Wife

Penny Princess

Penny Princess · 1952

MovieComedyRomance

A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.

Lindy Smith

They Can't Hang Me

They Can't Hang Me · 1955

They Can't Hang Me

MovieCrimeDrama

A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.

Jill Wilson

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

Tarzan and the Lost Safari · 1957

Tarzan and the Lost Safari

Tarzan leads five passengers from a downed airplane out of the jungle. En route white hunter Hawkins tries to sell them to the Oparian chief.

Gamage Dean

Under Age

Under Age · 1941

MovieCrimeDrama

Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.

Lily Fletcher

Miss Pilgrim's Progress

Miss Pilgrim's Progress · 1949

Miss Pilgrim's Progress

An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act.

Laramie Pilgrim

The Body Said No!

The Body Said No! · 1950

The Body Said No!

A cabaret artist sees on her television set after viewing hours, a plot being discussed to murder Michael Rennie. Although her friends are sceptical she warns Rennie, but things are not what they seem.

Mikki Brent

Theatre Night

Theatre Night · 1957

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

Olive Oglivie