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Lilyan Chauvin
Actor

Lilyan Chauvin

5 Movies
5 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 5
Birthday August 6, 1925 (100 years old)
Place of Birth Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Biography

French character actress Lilyan Chauvin may be one of those actors or actresses whose face you know without knowing their names. Chauvin was a long time veteran of the European stage, and was adept at playing strict, but sometimes loving characters. To horror fans, she might be best known as the sinister Mother Superior in Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), but her career started back in the 1950s when she was plucked from the stage to appear in small minor roles in motion pictures. One notable film was with John Wayne in North to Alaska (1960). For about thirty years, Chauvin was one of the busiest character actresses in Hollywood, appearing in over forty films as well as on television. Her many film credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Predator 2 (1990), No Place to Hide (1992), Universal Soldier (1992) as Jean-Claude Van Damme's mother, and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can (2002) with Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Filmography (96)

The Passing 2011
Sublime 2007
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film 2006
Ugly Betty 2006
Illusion Infinity 2004
Duty Dating 2002
Catch Me If You Can 2002
The Man Who Wasn't There 2001
Missing Pieces 2001
Alias 2001
Stanley's Gig 2000
Skeleton Woman 2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2000
Malcolm in the Middle 2000
Five Aces 1999
The Pretender 1996
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings 1995 Tyson 1995 Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women 1994
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story 1994
Friends 1994
ER 1994
Earth 2 1994
Saved by the Bell: The New Class 1993
The X-Files 1993
Frasier 1993
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1993
Cafe Americain 1993
Stormy Weathers 1992
Universal Soldier 1992
No Place to Hide 1992
Round Trip to Heaven 1992
Predator 2 1990
Bad Influence 1990
Listen to Me 1989
Death Doll 1989
Baywatch 1989
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 1987
Born in East L.A. 1987
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder 1987
Silent Night, Deadly Night 1984
Murder, She Wrote 1984
Masquerade 1983
The Junkman 1982
Beyond Reason 1982
Falcon Crest 1981
Private Benjamin 1980
Magnum, P.I. 1980
Portrait of a Stripper 1979
The Facts of Life 1979
Hart to Hart 1979
Flying High 1978
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women 1978
Child of Glass 1978
Kaz 1978
The Other Side of Midnight 1977
Victory at Entebbe 1976
Funny Lady 1975
The Bob Newhart Show 1972
Cool Million 1972
The Mephisto Waltz 1971
Once Upon a Dead Man 1971
McCloud 1970
To Rome with Love 1969
Yours, Mine and Ours 1968
The Outcasts 1968
Mannix 1967
Mission: Impossible 1966
Tickle Me 1965
Daniel Boone 1964
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre 1963
Two Weeks in Another Town 1962
Bloodlust! 1961
Walk Like a Dragon 1960
North to Alaska 1960
The Peter Tchaikovsky Story 1959
One Step Beyond 1959
Adventures in Paradise 1959
King Creole 1958
Lost, Lonely and Vicious 1958
Silk Stockings 1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms 1957
Perry Mason 1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective 1957
The Walter Winchell File 1957
Panic! 1957
Harbor Command 1957
Maverick 1957
The Adventures of Jim Bowie 1956
The Man Called X 1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955
Omnibus 1952
Adventures of Superman 1952
Dragnet 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951
Studio One 1948
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