Evelyn Felisa Ankers

 Evelyn Felisa Ankers (August 17, 1918 – August 29, 1985)

She was an actress who often played variations on the role of the cultured young leading lady in the many American horror films during the 1940's, most notably The Wolf Man (1941) opposite Lon Chaney Jr., a frequent screen partner. She also had parts in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Captive Wild Woman (1943), Son of Dracula (1943), The Mad Ghoul (1943), Jungle Woman (1944), Weird Woman (1944), The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944), and The Frozen Ghost (1945). She appeared in Hold That Ghost (1941), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), His Butler's Sister (1943), and The Pearl of Death (1944), among other movies from this era. She retired from Hollywood in 1950 to focus on her family. However, she occasionally played television roles, such as that of saloon owner Robbie James in the 1958 episode "Gambler" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Cheyenne, with Clint Walker in the title role. Ankers made her last film, No Greater Love (1960), alongside her husband Richard Denning. She and Denning were married from 1942 until her death at age 67 in 1985 from ovarian cancer. They had one daughter. Ankers and Denning are buried in Maui Veterans Cemetery, Makawao, Hawaii.