Scilla Gabel
- Schauspiel
- 4. Januar 1938 · Rimini, Italy
Biografie
She was born Scilla Gabellini, one of five siblings, in Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Scilla initially studied law at Oxford University, graduating with a doctorate. Her interest in pursuing a legal career waned quickly, however, since her next move was a return to Italy for acting classes at Rome's Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica. At the age of seventeen, the voluptuous, blue-eyed Scilla became a body double for Sophia Loren (to whom she bore more than a passing resemblance), notably in the classic Boy on a Dolphin (1957). Two years later, she underwent cosmetic surgery to look less like Sophia in order to forge her own screen image. In 1963, Scilla featured on the cover of several magazines, including Playboy, the Milanese publication Le Ore and Parade (at the time, the most widely read weekly in the U.S.). Though she went on to command leads in a number of films during the 60s, Scilla tended to be typecast in roles which emphasized her physical attributes, rather than her acting ability. She appeared most often in genre films, anything from innocuous sex comedies (Genitori in blue-jeans (1960), Bel Ami 2000 oder Wie verführt man einen Playboy? (1966)) to swashbuckling costume dramas (La Venere dei pirati (1960)), and from spaghetti westerns (Johnny Golden Poker (1966)) to peplum spectacles (Death on the Arena (1962), The Revenge of Spartacus (1964)). After 1971, she was afforded more challenging and critically acclaimed roles as a star in Italian TV miniseries. Eleven years after leaving the screen, Scilla attracted media attention as a result of the murder of her 87-year old landlord father Giuseppe, by a crazed tenant at his villa on the via Campi di Torre Flavia in Ladispoli.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Turned To Stone · Dank
- Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana · Liliana Balducci
- Dov'è Anna? · Paola Silvestri
- Vino e pane · Annina
- Kopfgeld für Chako · Susanna
- Die Odyssee · Helen
- Johnny Belinda · Belinda
- Le avventure di Ulisse · Elena
- Die Odyssee · Helen
- Zärtliche Haie · Zeezee
- Bel Ami 2000 · Anita Bionda
- Das Geheimnis der gelben Mönche · La Tigra
- Djurado · Barbara Donovan
- Modesty Blaise - Die tödliche Lady · Melina
- Le donne del Tenente Sheridan · Cheril
- Con rispetto parlando · Vittoria Oriani, in arte Patricia D'Altamura
- Der Sohn von Cäsar und Cleopatra · Livia
- Revanche für Spartacus · Cinzia
- Tribun und Verschwörer · Claudia
- Eine Leiche für die Dame · Renata
- Una storia di notte · Turista tedesca
- I fuorilegge del matrimonio · Wilma
- I diavoli di Spartivento · Isabella - duchessina di Collinalto
- Reiter des Schreckens · Cristina
- Il giorno più corto · L'amante di un soldato (uncredited)
- I due colonnelli · Iride
- La salamandre d'or · Béatrice
- Sodom und Gomorrha · Tamar
- Die gewaltigen Sieben · Thalima
- Village of Daughters · Angelina Vimereati
- Un branco di vigliacchi · Signora De Rossi
- Der Raub der Sabinerinnen · Dusia
- Die drei Wahrheiten · Rossana
- Mara · Mara
- Küß’ mich als gäb’s kein Morgen · Nadja
- Les filles sèment le vent · Kissa
- La grande vallata
- Die Mühle der versteinerten Frauen · Elfie Wahl
- Venus der Piraten · Isabella, the Duke's Daughter
- Call-Girls · Patrizia
- Noi duri · Josette
- Genitori in blue-jeans · Colette
- Les canailles · Gina
- Hadschi Murat – Unter der Knute des Zaren · Princess Mario Vorontsova
- Tarzans größtes Abenteuer · Toni
- I ragazzi dei Parioli · Nuccia
- Gambe d'oro · Gianna Savelli
- Denn keiner ist ohne Sünde · Lola
- Gente felice · Gina
- Due sosia in allegria
- Tua per la vita · La sartina dell' Atelier