Yvette Mimieux

Acting

Yvette Mimieux

Born — Died

1942-01-08 — 2022-01-17

Place of birth

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Yvette Carmen Mimieux (January 8, 1942 - January 17, 2022) was an American film and television actress, known for The Time Machine (1960), Where the Boys Are (1960), The Black Hole (1979) and Dark of the Sun (1968). She was married to hospitality executive Howard Ruby from December 20, 1986 until her death in 2022. She was previously married to director Stanley Donen.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

Obsessive Love poster
5.1

A woman tries to create a relationship with the soap star who is the object of her obsession.

Obsessive Love

1984

Brainwash poster
6.3

A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.

Brainwash

1983

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal poster
7.3

Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion pictures. A peer of Walt Disney, Pal pioneered stop motion animation and went on to virtually invent the modern science fiction and fantasy film genres. Pal's extraordinary genius molded a dazzling array of films, which earned an incredible total of eight Academy Awards and left a cinematic legacy that served as formative inspiration for the movies of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Gene Roddenberry.

The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal

1986

Night Partners poster
7.5

Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.

Night Partners

1983

Forbidden Love poster
5.2

A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other.

Forbidden Love

1982

The Fifth Missile poster
5.5

The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.

The Fifth Missile

1986

1970s · 15 titles

The Black Hole poster
5.8

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.

The Black Hole

1979

Skyjacked poster
6.2

A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.

Skyjacked

1972

Journey into Fear poster
6.0

U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.

Journey into Fear

1975

Disaster on the Coastliner poster
5.3

A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man William Shatner puts his life on the line to ward off the crash.

Disaster on the Coastliner

1979

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell poster
6.2

A canine minion of Satan terrorizes an unsuspecting suburban family.

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

1978

Snowbeast poster
4.3

A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.

Snowbeast

1977

Jackson County Jail poster
5.6

A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

Jackson County Jail

1976

The Delta Factor poster
4.7

Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to rescue a scientist from a dictator-run island, disguised as a drug dealer with another agent posing as his wife, while simultaneously plotting to prove his innocence.

The Delta Factor

1970

The Neptune Factor poster
5.1

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

The Neptune Factor

1973

Hit Lady poster
3.7

At a Texas barbecue, a pretty woman chats up a wealthy rancher, and soon they're off on a horseback ride. Before she shoots him on an isolated road, she gives him a minute to reflect on who he might have offended on his rise to the top. She's Angela de Vries, a contract killer based in L.A. She wants this to have been her last job; her contractor wants one more death, a national union leader, made to look like an accident. She starts her homework on this mark. Meanwhile, in her private life, she's in love with a budding photographer. Is there any way that she can get out of the game and have a full love life?

Hit Lady

1974

Death Takes a Holiday poster
4.9

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Death Takes a Holiday

1971

Black Noon poster
6.5

Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town. At first warm and welcoming, the townspeople become more and more solicitous of John and insistent that he stay on as their minister, against the wishes of Lorna, who goes unheeded and slowly becomes deathly ill. Will John realize the danger before it is too late?

Black Noon

1971

The Legend of Valentino poster
6.7

An embellished dramatization of the career and personal life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol.

The Legend of Valentino

1975

Ransom for Alice! poster
9.0

In 1890s Seattle, a deputy marshal and his female partner set out to bust up a ring that kidnaps teenage girls and sells them into prostitution.

Ransom for Alice!

1977

No artwork available
4.0

An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who steal her car and leave her unconscious by the roadside. She becomes a fugitive after killing her jailer during a rape attempt and breaking out with one of the hitchhikers who could prove her innocence.

Outside Chance

1978

1960s · 18 titles

The Time Machine poster
7.4

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

The Time Machine

1960

Dark of the Sun poster
6.6

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.

Dark of the Sun

1968

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm poster
5.9

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1962

Light in the Piazza poster
6.4

A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?

Light in the Piazza

1962

Where the Boys Are poster
6.1

Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are.

Where the Boys Are

1960

Toys in the Attic poster
6.0

Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. The sisters hope Julian will help with their expenses, and he tells them that while his profitable factory went out of business, he did manage to save money. It turns out that Julian pulled off a real estate scam and took off with the money. Carrie is obsessed with her brother. Her jealousy of Lily pushes her to discover the shady land deal for herself and she does everything she can to wreck their marriage.

Toys in the Attic

1963

Monkeys, Go Home! poster
5.4

Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.

Monkeys, Go Home!

1967

The Picasso Summer poster
6.8

A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.

The Picasso Summer

1969

Looking for Love poster
5.8

An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.

Looking for Love

1964

Diamond Head poster
5.5

Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.

Diamond Head

1962

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse poster
6.0

In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1962

Lionpower from MGM poster
6.3

"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five seasons" theme--fall, winter, spring, summer--plus a "fabulous fifth season". The main music is set to the rousing theme from "The Magnificent Yankee" composed by David Raksin in 1950. The promo is narrated by some of the best voice-over actors of the time, and is an excellent time capsule of a by-gone era.

Lionpower from MGM

1967

The Caper of the Golden Bulls poster
6.3

Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former companion Angela appears and blackmails him to help her robbing the Spanish National Bank of Pamplona. He gives in and develops a brilliant plan... Will this be then end of his comfortable life?

The Caper of the Golden Bulls

1967

The Reward poster
6.0

A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.

The Reward

1965

Joy in the Morning poster
4.2

Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie, who was raised in the slums. When Annie runs away to marry Carl while he's at college, they have many difficulties, including a college Dean that frowns upon married couples, Carl's angry parents, Carl's jealousy, and Annie's own problems with her sexuality.

Joy in the Morning

1965

Three in the Attic poster
4.6

In the swinging sixties three girls discover they have the same boyfriend who has been playing around with them all while vowing fidelity to each. To teach him a lesson he won't forget, the trio contrive to lock him up and continually favour him with their attentions in turn.

Three in the Attic

1968

The Desperate Hours poster
4.0

The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.

The Desperate Hours

1967

Platinum High School poster
6.5

At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them above the law. Enter Steve Conway - there to investigate the death of his son, who he had been told died in an accident.

Platinum High School

1960

Series credits

The Mike Douglas Show poster
5.8

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Merv Griffin Show poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

The Dick Cavett Show poster
6.8

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

The Dick Cavett Show

1968

Dr. Kildare poster
5.7

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

Dr. Kildare

1961

The Oscars poster
7.1

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

The Oscars

1953

One Step Beyond poster
5.7

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series that dramatized purportedly real-life supernatural and paranormal experiences. The series was hosted by John Newland and ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.

One Step Beyond

1959

Mr. Lucky poster
6.7

An honest professional gambler operates a floating casino.

Mr. Lucky

1959

Lime Street poster
6.0

Lime Street is an American action/drama series that aired on the ABC television network during the 1985 television season. The series was created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also served as executive producer alongside husband Harry Thomason and series star Robert Wagner. Robert Wagner is half of a crackerjack team of insurance investigators. A colorful British bachelor (John Standing) is the other half, and he resides in a castle outside London. This Lloyd's of London-type duo travel all over the world to crack some of the toughest insurance cases ever devised by a scriptwriter. Lew Ayres is Wagner's dapper Virginia countrygentleman father and the grandfather to Bob's motherless children.

Lime Street

1985

Berrenger's poster
5.7

Berrenger's is an American primetime television soap opera created by Diana Gould that aired on NBC in 1985. The series revolved around the Berrenger family, a New York dynasty which owned the glamorous department store which bore their name. Following in the tradition of Dynasty and Dallas, Berrenger's played up to the familiar motifs of 1980s soap operas - glamorous and beautiful characters, using money and power in games of love, business and betrayal. The series was cancelled after 13 one-hour episodes had been produced. In North America, only 11 of the 13 episodes were screened. Because of studio television output deals it was screened in Europe and Australia, and has sustained a modest cult following.

Berrenger's

1985

Lady Boss poster
8.0

A miniseries based on the Jackie Collins novel "Lady Boss." In this sequel to "Chances," Lucky Santangelo returns to Hollywood determined to become its most powerful woman.

Lady Boss

1992

The Most Deadly Game poster
7.0

The Most Deadly Game is an American drama television series

The Most Deadly Game

1970

Behind the camera