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Lisa Montell

Actress

Born - 5 July 1933, Warsaw, Poland
Died - 7 May 2023

Dark-haired, dark-eyed, fiery co-feature actress seen in a variety of often exotic roles, with a few minor leads. Born Irena Augustinovich, she fled Poland with her parents in 1939, at first to New York City. After a debut film made in Peru, Daughter of the Sun God (1953), which wasn't released for nearly a decade, she moved to Hollywood, where she was busy for another eight years: Escape to Burma (1955), Jump into Hell (1955), Pearl of the South Pacific (1955), World Without End (1956), The Wild Dakotas (1956), Gaby (1956), Naked Paradise (1957), Tomahawk Trail (1957), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958), then many TV series until the movies The Long Rope (1961) and The Firebrand (1962), her last. She died from sepsis and heart problems.