Lisa Montell

Lisa Montell was an American actress who appeared in Hollywood films and television during the 1950s. Born in Warsaw in 1933, she grew up in New York and trained at the High School of Performing Arts. After working in English-language theater, she was noticed by producer Dick Welding, who cast her in Daughter of the Sun God, a film shot in Peru. She became known as a starlet of many faces because she could play Polynesian, Native American, Mexican, Burmese and other ethnic roles. Her film credits included Jump Into Hell, Pearl of the South Pacific (1955), World Without End (1956), and She Gods of Shark Reef (1958). On television, her first role may have been in The Public Defender in 1954, and she appeared in Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, Bat Masterson and Combat!. Much of her later work was in Westerns, and she left acting in 1965.