- 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 Mistress of the World (1960), A Matter of Resistance (1966) and El túnel (1952). 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.
- Moved back to Europe in the mid 1950s and appeared in a large number of German films.
- Thompson left acting in the late 1960s to become a writer and TV producer.
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