Actor / Director Profile

Strikingly buxom, ravishing and voluptuous redheaded stunner Dyanne Thorne shall forever live on in cult exploitation cinema infamy for her ferocious and frightening portrayal of wicked Nazi villainess Ilsa in the notoriously nasty "Ilsa" features made throughout the 1970s.Dyanne was born on October 14, 1943, in Greenwich, Connecticut, and grew up in New Jersey and New Zealand. She gave her first performance at age three in a church play. She studied acting in New York with 'Stella Adler' and Lee Strasberg. Dyanne made her film debut with a minor part as a college student in the comedy Who Was That Lady? (1960). She was especially impressive as a kinky swinger in Joseph W. Sarno's sensational soft-core gem Sin in the Suburbs (1964). She had a small role as a cocktail waitress in the groovy satire The President's Analyst (1967). Other memorable roles include a faithless wife in the tawdry _Point of Terror (1967)_ (), the bumbling Fairy Godmother in the bawdy _The Erotic Adventures of Pinochio (1968)_, an alluring witch in the steamy Blood Sabbath (1972), a hooker in the crude Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman (1975), one of the titular lovely ladies in the wild The Swinging Barmaids (1975), a batty asylum inmate in the tacky Hellhole (1985) and James Belushi's aggressively flirtatious transsexual father in the amusing deadpan hoot Real Men (1987).Dyanne did guest spots on the TV shows "Star Trek" (1966), "Naked City" (1958), "Felony Squad" (1966), "Car 54, Where Are You?" (1961), "T.H.E. Cat" (1966) and "The Wackiest Ship in the Army" (1965). Outside of her film and TV work, Thorne has also performed in Broadway road tours and done comedy on the Las Vegas stage (she starred in her own popular comedy revue called "Sex Over 40"). In real life she is the total radical opposite of her cruel and formidable screen persona: She's a very kind and sweet woman who's an ordained minister and co-founder of the International Science of Mind Prayer Circle and runs her own private wedding chapel service with her actor/musician husband Howard Maurer in Las Vegas, Nevada.