Background
Known as "the Queen of the Screamers", her other films include 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 Manitoba"s Revenge (1944) and The Frozen Ghost (1945).
Career
Ankers also appeared in Hold That Ghost (1941), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), His Butler"s Sister (1943), The Pearl of Death (1944), Pardon My Rhythm (1944), Tarzan"s Magic Fountain (1949), and played Calamity Jane in, one of many movies for which she received top billing. Ankers made over fifty films between 1936 and 1950, then retired from movies at the age of 32 to be a housewife. She occasionally played television roles, such as that of saloon owner Robbie James in the 1958 episode "Gambler" of the American Broadcasting Company/Warner Brothers western series Cheyenne, with Clint Walker in the title role.
She was born on 17 August 1918 in Chile.
She died of ovarian cancer at the age of 67 on 29 August 1985 in Maui, Hawaii.