Dyanne Thorne

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Dyanne Thorne
Dyanne Thorne

Dyanne Thorne (Born October 14, 1932 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA) is an American actress and model. She is sometimes credited as: Lahna Monroe, Rosalee Stein, or Diane Thorne. She is famous for starring as the eponymous character in the Ilsa series, including many other look-alikes in women-in-prison films. Her last acting part was as James Belushi's transsexual father in the 1987 film Real Men. The same year she and her husband appeared as extras in Franc Roddam's segment of the film Aria.

Today she is an ordained minister working with her husband Howard Maurer at a private wedding chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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[edit] Selected Filmography

Dyanne Thorne as the nefarious Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
Dyanne Thorne as the nefarious Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS
  • Sin in the Suburbs (1964) .... Yvette Talman
  • Point of Terror (1971) .... Andrea
  • The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio (1971) .... Fairy Godmother
  • Blood Sabbath (1972) .... Alotta
  • Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS (1975) .... Ilsa
  • Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976) .... Ilsa
  • Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977) aka Greta the Torturer
  • Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977) .... Ilsa
  • Real Men (1987) .... Nick's dad

[edit] TV appearances

  • Star Trek (1966) as "First Girl" in episode A Piece of the Action (# 2.17) 12. January 1968
  • Felony Squad (1966) as "Miss Lucas" in episode "Miss Reilly's Revenge" (# 1.16) 26. December 1966
  • Felony Squad (1966) as "Diana Porter" in episode "The Terror Trap" (# 1.12) 28. November 1966

[edit] Trivia

  • Measurements: 37C-17-33 (at age 15),
  • 37D-22-35 (filming the "Ilsa" films)
  • Dyanne Thorne was going to star in an infamous crossover movie called Ilsa meets Bruce Lee in the Devil's Triangle, but it was never released.
  • The Danish rock band Sort Sol has a song called Dyanne Thorne on their album Flow My Firetear.

[edit] Quote

  • What was your craziest experience with the role of Ilsa or with Ilsa-fans?
  • A wonderfully funny letter was sent to me signed by a fraternity in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., medical school. The fraternity for doctors had voted me the body on which they would most like to operate. Dyanne Thorne

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