Jany Clair (born 2 September 1938) is a retired French actress.
Early life
Clair was born Jany Guillaume in
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the No ...
, France.
Career
Clair starred in a number of B-grade films in the 1950s and 1960s, in particular in a number of
sword and sandal
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla plural), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or Biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budge ...
films.
Filmography
* 1957 ''Mademoiselle et son gang ''
* 1959 ''
Legions of the Nile
''Legions of the Nile'' ( it, Le legioni di Cleopatra, french: Les légions de Cléopâtre, es, Las legiones de Cleopatra) is an Eastmancolor 1959 Italian-French-Spanish historical epic adventure film written and directed by Vittorio Cottafav ...
''- Ray's elder sister.
* 1960 ''
The Night They Killed Rasputin
''The Night They Killed Rasputin'' ( it, L'ultimo zar, french: Les nuits de Raspoutine), also known as ''Nights of Rasputin'', is a 1960 Italian-French historical adventure film co-written and directed by Pierre Chenal, and starring Edmund Purdom ...
'' - Irina Yousoupoff.
* 1960 ''Lay Off Blondes'' - Jo
* 1961 ''Conqueror of Maracaibo'' - Doña Isabella Valdez
* 1961 ''
The Prisoner of the Iron Mask
''The Prisoner of the Iron Mask'' ( it, La vendetta della maschera di ferro, french: La vengeance du masque de fer) is a 1962 Italian-French swashbuckler film. It was directed by Francesco De Feo.79 A.D.'' - Myrta
* 1962 ''
The Prisoner of the Iron Mask
''The Prisoner of the Iron Mask'' ( it, La vendetta della maschera di ferro, french: La vengeance du masque de fer) is a 1962 Italian-French swashbuckler film. It was directed by Francesco De Feo.Planets Against Us
french: Le monstre aux yeux verts
, director = Romano Ferrara
, writer =
, screenplay = Romano Ferrara Piero Pierotti
, story = Massimo Rendina
, based_on =
, producer = Alberto CheminGaetano Cicc ...
'' - Audrey Bradbury
* 1962 ''
Kerim, Son of the Sheik
''Kerim, Son of the Sheik'' ( it, Il figlio dello sceicco, french: Le retour du fils du cheik, also known just as ''Son of the Sheik'') is a 1962 Italian-French adventure film directed by Mario Costa and starring Gordon Scott.
Plot
Cast
* ...
The Road to Fort Alamo
''The Road to Fort Alamo'' ( it, La strada per Fort Alamo) is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Mario Bava.
Cast
* Ken Clark as Bill Mannerly/"Lieutenant John Smith"
* Jany Clair as Janet
* Michel Lemoine as Kid Carson
* Andreina ...
Mission to Caracas
''Mission to Caracas'' or ''Mission spéciale à Caracas'' is a 1965 spy film directed by Raoul André.
Plot
Special agent Becker (Roland Carey) is after a briefcase that contains some secret documents. The documents are being smuggled aboard ...