Yutte Stensgaard
A former au pair and model, Jytte Stensgaard emigrated to the UK in 1963, hoping to have a successful international film career. Changing her name to the slightly easier to pronounce "Yutte" Stensgaard she ironically didn't make her debut in a British film, but in the Italian movie The Girl with a Pistol (1968) (Girl with a Pistol) which did have some British backing. She then went on to appear in various British movies, mainly of the comedy or horror genre, most famously the lead role in Lust for a Vampire (1971), as well as several television guest roles.
She also got a six-month stint hosting a game show with British king of comedy, Bob Monkhouse. After struggling with myopic casting directors, who could not see the beauty and budding talent before them and were happier to just keep casting more established but less beautiful women, Yutte finally gave up and emigrated to the USA in the mid-seventies and took up a job selling air time for a Christian radio station in Oregon.
Understandably reluctant to make appearances at horror conventions when British film publicists finally started to notice her when it was too late, she did relent and start appearing at a select few in the late 1990s, giving the non-fickle amongst her fans a chance to see her unique radiance once more.
An inimitable beauty the likes of which has never been seen since, Yutte Stensgaard was possibly the biggest loss to movies since that of Sharon Tate.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.905 |
Birthday | 1946-05-14 |
Place of Birth | Thisted, Jutland, Denmark |
Also Known As |
1971
Lust for a Vampire
5.9/69
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. Th...
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Lust for a Vampire
1972
Burke & Hare
5.5/18
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
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Burke & Hare
1970
The Buttercup Chain
4.6/7
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the...
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The Buttercup Chain
1969
Zeta One
3.8/28
Women around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the planet Angvia begin snatching them off the streets.
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Zeta One
2008
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
7/5
This fascinating documentary tells the story of the talented people behind and in front of the cameras at the Hammer Film Studios. Their prodigious ou...
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Fanex Files: Hammer Films
1969
A Promise of Bed
2.2/4
Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer. A depressed middle aged loner whose...
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A Promise of Bed
1970
Scream and Scream Again
5.3/91
A serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
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Scream and Scream Again
1970
Doctor in Trouble
5.1/5
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise sh...
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Doctor in Trouble
1968
The Girl with a Pistol
7/131
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
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The Girl with a Pistol
1987
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
6.4/7
A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips fro...
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1994
The World of Hammer: Vamp
0/0
Through the years, Hammer's depiction of female vampires was consistently groundbreaking and always controversial, exploring the fine line between for...
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1969
Some Girls Do
5.9/18
A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent...
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1969
Carry On Again Doctor
6.1/54
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he fli...
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