
Lilyan Chauvin
Known for: Acting
Born: August 6, 1925
Died: June 26, 2008
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…
Known for

Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984

Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
2006

Lost, Lonely and Vicious
1958

The Peter Tchaikovsky Story
1959

Death Doll
1989

Duty Dating
2002

Skeleton Woman
2000

Illusion Infinity
2004

Bloodlust!
1961

No Place to Hide
1992

Stanley's Gig
2000

Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
1995

Walk Like a Dragon
1960

The Other Side of Midnight
1977

Once Upon a Dead Man
1971

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
1994

Silk Stockings
1957

Funny Lady
1975

Child of Glass
1978

Tyson
1995

The Mephisto Waltz
1971

Missing Pieces
2001

Universal Soldier
1992

Stormy Weathers
1992

Flying High
1978

Portrait of a Stripper
1979

The Passing
2011

Bad Influence
1990

Tickle Me
1965

Round Trip to Heaven
1992

The Man Who Wasn't There
2001

Predator 2
1990

Sublime
2007

North to Alaska
1960

The Junkman
1982

Beyond Reason
1982

Two Weeks in Another Town
1962

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957

Five Aces
1999

Victory at Entebbe
1976

Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978

Listen to Me
1989

Catch Me If You Can
2002

King Creole
1958

Yours, Mine and Ours
1968

Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
1994

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
1987

Private Benjamin
1980

Falcon Crest
1981

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Saved by the Bell: The New Class
1993

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000

Born in East L.A.
1987

The Facts of Life
1979

Alias
2001

Friends
1994

The Pretender
1996

The Bob Newhart Show
1972

Malcolm in the Middle
2000

Kaz
1978

Omnibus
1952

Mannix
1967

Hart to Hart
1979

Dragnet
1951

Perry Mason
1957

Studio One
1948

Mission: Impossible
1966

Ugly Betty
2006

Baywatch
1989

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

ER
1994

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

To Rome with Love
1969

The Outcasts
1968

Daniel Boone
1964

McCloud
1970

One Step Beyond
1959

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

Adventures of Superman
1952

Adventures in Paradise
1959

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956

The Walter Winchell File
1957

Panic!
1957

The Man Called X
1956

Harbor Command
1957

The X-Files
1993

Maverick
1957

Frasier
1993

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993

Earth 2
1994

Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
1987

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Cafe Americain
1993

Cool Million
1972

Masquerade
1983

Darkroom
1981