Lilyan Chauvin

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, Île-de-France, France, 1925-08-06

Died: 2008-06-26

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Ten Thousand Bedrooms	Reporter (uncredited)	50
2	1957	Silk Stockings	Dancer Sonia (uncredited)	67
3	1958	Lost, Lonely and Vicious	Tanya Pernaud	48
4	1958	King Creole	Catherine (uncredited)	64
5	1959	The Peter Tchaikovsky Story	Fanny Durbach	70
6	1960	Walk Like a Dragon	Mme. Lili Raide	50
7	1960	North to Alaska	Jenny Lamont	65
8	1960	North to Alaska	Jenny Lamont (uncredited)	65
9	1961	Bloodlust!	Sandra Balleau	43
10	1962	Two Weeks in Another Town	Bar Girl (uncredited)	59
11	1965	Tickle Me	Ronnie	59
12	1968	Yours, Mine and Ours	French Actress on TV Screen	68
13	1971	The Mephisto Waltz	Woman Writer	60
14	1971	Once Upon a Dead Man	Madame Jarnac	70
15	1975	Funny Lady	Mademoiselle	52
16	1976	Victory at Entebbe	French Nun	51
17	1977	The Other Side of Midnight	Mrs. Page	59
18	1978	Child of Glass	Madame Dumaine	54
19	1978	Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women	Louise	50
20	1978	Flying High	Miss Simmons	0
21	1979	Portrait of a Stripper	Yvette	25
22	1980	Private Benjamin	Mrs. Trémont	60
23	1982	The Junkman	French Reporter	50
24	1984	Silent Night, Deadly Night	Mother Superior	59
25	1985	Beyond Reason	Nurse Johnson	0
26	1987	Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2	Mother Superior (archive footage)	43
27	1987	Born in East L.A.	German Woman	58
28	1989	Listen to Me		53
29	1989	Death Doll	Madame Zerba	50
30	1990	Bad Influence	Art Gallery Patron	60
31	1990	Predator 2	Irene Edwards	63
32	1992	Stormy Weathers	Mrs. Comden	47
33	1992	Universal Soldier	Mrs. John Devreux	63
34	1992	Round Trip to Heaven	Chaperone	33
35	1992	No Place to Hide	Mother Superior	56
36	1994	Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story	Skating Judge	100
37	1994	Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women	Coach	44
38	1995	Tyson	Camille Ewald	61
39	1995	Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings	Miss Osie	55
40	1999	Five Aces	Grandmother Kalliope	57
41	2000	Stanley's Gig	Grace	58
42	2001	The Man Who Wasn't There	Medium	75
43	2002	Duty Dating	Dr. Hartley	60
44	2002	Catch Me If You Can	Mrs. Lavalier	80
45	2004	Illusion Infinity	Nurse	0
46	2006	Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film	Self	68
47	2007	Sublime	European Nurse	53
48	2011	The Passing	Rebecca Naibert	25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One		50
2	1951	Dragnet		64
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Old Woman	86
4	1952	Adventures of Superman		67
5	1952	Omnibus		60
6	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Sybil Delamont	77
7	1956	The Man Called X		0
8	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		45
9	1957	Panic!		0
10	1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Clara	62
11	1957	Perry Mason	Matron	77
12	1957	Maverick	Sydney Sue Shipley	68
13	1957	The Walter Winchell File		50
14	1957	Harbor Command		40
15	1959	One Step Beyond	Francesca	56
16	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Foridita	57
17	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
18	1964	Daniel Boone	Madame Simon	69
19	1966	Mission: Impossible	Mrs. Beruch	76
20	1967	Mannix		67
21	1968	The Outcasts		53
22	1969	To Rome with Love		50
23	1970	McCloud		71
24	1972	The Bob Newhart Show		75
25	1972	Cool Million	Party guest	50
26	1978	Kaz		50
27	1979	The Facts of Life		70
28	1979	Hart to Hart		68
29	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Maria	73
30	1981	Falcon Crest	Sister Jeannette	55
31	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Dispatcher	75
32	1987	Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder		65
33	1989	Baywatch	Dr. Lester	60
34	1993	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Vedek Yassim	79
35	1993	The X-Files	Golda	84
36	1993	Saved by the Bell: The New Class	Old Woman	59
37	1993	Frasier	Mama	77
38	1993	Cafe Americain	Madame Dussolier	63
39	1994	ER	Nurse Edna	78
40	1994	Friends	Grandma Tribbiani	84
41	1994	Earth 2	Katrina	68
42	1996	The Pretender	Mrs. Nikkos, the Greek Lady	74
43	2000	Malcolm in the Middle	Marica	85
44	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Mrs. Aloyna Ivanovna	76
45	2001	Alias	Signora Ventutti	68
46	2006	Ugly Betty	Yolanda	63

Lilyan Chauvin

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