- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJuan Carlos Mundin-Schaffter
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Carlos Thompson was born on June 7, 1923 in Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for The Lady of the Camelias (1953), Mistress of the World (1960) and The Last Rebel (1958). He was married to Lilli Palmer. He died on October 10, 1990 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- SpouseLilli Palmer(September 21, 1957 - January 27, 1986) (her death)
- After his wife Lilli died of cancer in 1986, he returned to his native Buenos Aires. He committed suicide with a gunshot to his head four years later.
- Married to German-born actress Lilli Palmer after they met shooting a 1956 German film. They married months after her divorced from Rex Harrison in late 1957.
- Committed suicide (by shooting himself in the right temple) in his apartment in the fashionable Barrio Norte district of Buenos Aires.
- Thompson left acting in the late 1960s to become a writer and TV producer.
- Moved back to Europe in the mid 1950s and appeared in a large number of German films.
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