10 Facts About Yvonne Furneaux

Yvonne Furneaux's Yorkshireman father, Joseph Scatcherd, was a director at a local branch of Lloyds Bank.

The family moved to England prior to the outbreak of World War II, and Yvonne enrolled in St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1946 to study Modern Languages, where she was known as "Tessa Scatcherd".

Yvonne Furneaux played in productions of Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew, and was photographed by Norman Parkinson as one of "The Young Look in the Theatre" for the January 1953 issue of Vogue.

Yvonne Furneaux made her film debut with a minor role in Anthony Pelissier's omnibus comedy Meet Me Tonight.

Yvonne Furneaux subsequently played several supporting parts, including in Peter Brook's 1953 film version of The Beggar's Opera, the adventure films The Master of Ballantrae and The Dark Avenger, and the mystery film The House of the Arrow.

Yvonne Furneaux played the female lead in the Hammer horror film The Mummy.

Yvonne Furneaux played Emma, the fiancee to Marcello Mastroianni's character, in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

Yvonne Furneaux played leading roles in several peplum films, and she returned to her native France to star in a pair of films for director Claude Autant-Lara.

Yvonne Furneaux was married to cinematographer Jacques Natteau, who died on 17 April 2007.

Yvonne Furneaux died of complications from a stroke at her home in North Hampton, New Hampshire, on 5 July 2024, at the age of 98.