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.
96 acting credits
Acting · 96
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Friends
1994
The X-Files
1993
ER
1994
Frasier
1993
Perry Mason
1957
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Malcolm in the Middle
2000
Mannix
1967
Falcon Crest
1981
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Dragnet
1951
Mission: Impossible
1966
Maverick
1957
Baywatch
1989
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Ugly Betty
2006
The Facts of Life
1979
Hart to Hart
1979
Daniel Boone
1964
The Pretender
1996
Studio One
1948
Omnibus
1952
McCloud
1970
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Bob Newhart Show
1972
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
1993
One Step Beyond
1959
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Catch Me If You Can
2002
Adventures of Superman
1952
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Earth 2
1994
Alias
2001
Predator 2
1990
Kaz
1978
Panic!
1957
Masquerade
1983
The Outcasts
1968
Universal Soldier
1992
Harbor Command
1957
The Walter Winchell File
1957
To Rome with Love
1969
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Cafe Americain
1993
Cool Million
1972
Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
1987
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
The Man Called X
1956
Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings
1995
Private Benjamin
1980
Bad Influence
1990
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
North to Alaska
1960
Sublime
2007
Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984
King Creole
1958
Tyson
1995
Born in East L.A.
1987
Listen to Me
1989
The Other Side of Midnight
1977
The Mephisto Waltz
1971
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
2006
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962
Funny Lady
1975
Silk Stockings
1957
Victory at Entebbe
1976
No Place to Hide
1992
Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
1994
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
1987
Five Aces
1999
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
1994
Tickle Me
1965
Round Trip to Heaven
1992
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957
Bloodlust!
1961
Portrait of a Stripper
1979
Illusion Infinity
2004
Stormy Weathers
1992
Child of Glass
1978
Missing Pieces
2001
Duty Dating
2002
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978
The Junkman
1982
Flying High
1978
Stanley's Gig
2000
The Passing
2011
The Peter Tchaikovsky Story
1959
Walk Like a Dragon
1960
Once Upon a Dead Man
1971
Death Doll
1989
Beyond Reason
1982
Skeleton Woman
2000
Lost, Lonely and Vicious
1958