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.
Acting
Movie
The Girl with a Pistol
as Blonde at Party (uncredited)
1968
TV
The Persuaders!
as Bibi Bergman
1971
TV
The Saint
as Telephone Operator
1962
Movie
Scream and Scream Again
as Erika
1970
Movie
Lust for a Vampire
as Mircalla / Carmilla Karnstein
1971
Movie
Carry On Again Doctor
as Trolley Nurse (uncredited)
1969
Movie
Zeta One
as Ann Olsen
1969
Movie
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as Museum Guide
1969
TV
On the Buses
1969
Movie
That's Carry On!
as Trolley Nurse (archive footage) (uncredited)
1977
Movie
Some Girls Do
as Robot No. 1
1969
Movie
Burke & Hare
as Janet
1972
Movie
Doctor in Trouble
as Eve
1970
TV
Jason King
1971
Movie
The Buttercup Chain
as Ullah
1970
Movie
A Promise of Bed
as Taxi Girl
1969
Movie
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
as Self (archive footage)
1987
Movie
What's a Carry On?
as Trolley Nurse (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
TV
Dead of Night
as Gertrud Wickett
1972
Movie
Fanex Files: Hammer Films
as Self
2008
Movie
Run a Crooked Mile
as Girl At Party
1969
TV
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
TV
The Adventures of Don Quick
as Flosshilda
1970
Movie
The World of Hammer: Vamp
as Mircalla / Carmilla Karnstein
1994
