Hélène Chanel

Hélène Chanel (born Hélène Stoliaroff on 12 June 1941 in Deauville, Calvados, France) is a former French actress of Russian heritage. She was active in the 1960s in a variety of European international co-productions of sword and sandal, Eurospy and Spaghetti Westerns. She was credited with a variety of names such as Hélène Chancel, Helen Chanel, Sheryll Morgan, Helen Stoliaroff and Hélène Stoliaroff.

Biography

A former model, Helene entered films in 1959 in the film Les dragueurs opposite Ugo Tognazzi. Her surname was to have been changed to "Chancel", but an Italian publicity agent misspelled it to "Chanel".

Selected filmography

• Le olimpiadi dei mariti (1960)
• My Friend, Dr. Jekyll (1960)
• Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World (1961)
• La monaca di Monza (1962)
• 5 marines per 100 ragazze (1962)
• The Witch's Curse (1962)
• Slave Girls of Sheba (1963)
• The Invincible Masked Rider (1963)
• Desert Raiders (1964)
• Two Mafiamen in the Far West (1964)
• Valley of the Thundering Echo (1964)
• Hercules of the Desert (1964)
• Conqueror of Atlantis (1965)
• Night of Violence (1965)
• Operation Counterspy (1965)
• Ring Around the World (1966)
• The Devil in Love (1966)
• Pleasant Nights (1966)
• Cjamango (1967)
• Nel sole (1967)
• Death Rides Along (1967)
• Killer Caliber .32 (1967)
• Un posto all'inferno (1969)
• Gangster's Law (1969)
• Death Knocks Twice (1969)
• La ragazza del prete (1970)
• Boccaccio (1972)
• Lips of Lurid Blue (1975)
• Rudeness (1975)