Scilla Gabel
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Serial • 1983
jako Liliana Balducci
Dov'è Anna?
Serial • 1976
jako Paola Silvestri
Vino e pane
Serial • 1973
jako Annina
Dorwać Chaco
Film • 1971
jako Susanna
Odissea
Film • 1969
jako Helen
Johnny Belinda
Film • 1969
jako Belinda
Le avventure di Ulisse
Film • 1969
jako Elena
Odissea
Serial • 1968
jako Helen
Zärtliche Haie
Film • 1967
jako Zeezee
Bel Ami 2000
Film • 1966
jako Anita Bionda
Das Geheimnis der gelben Mönche
Film • 1966
jako La Tigra
Djurado
Film • 1966
jako Barbara Donovan
Modesty Blaise
Film • 1966
jako Melina
Le donne del Tenente Sheridan
Serial • 1965
jako Cheril
Con rispetto parlando
Film • 1965
jako Vittoria Oriani, in arte Patricia D'Altamura
Il figlio di Cleopatra
Film • 1964
jako Livia
La Vendetta di Spartacus
Film • 1964
jako Cinzia
Gli schiavi più forti del mondo
Film • 1964
jako Claudia
Cadavere per signora
Film • 1964
jako Renata
Una storia di notte
Film • 1964
jako Turista tedesca
I fuorilegge del matrimonio
Film • 1963
jako Wilma
I diavoli di Spartivento
Film • 1963
jako Isabella - duchessina di Collinalto
Il terrore dei mantelli rossi
Film • 1963
jako Cristina
Najkrótszy dzień
Film • 1963
jako L'amante di un soldato (uncredited)
I due colonnelli
Film • 1963
jako Iride
La salamandre d'or
Film • 1962
jako Béatrice
Sodom and Gomorrah
Film • 1962
jako Tamar
Maciste kontra gladiatorzy
Film • 1962
jako Thalima
Village of Daughters
Film • 1962
jako Angelina Vimereati
Un branco di vigliacchi
Film • 1962
jako Signora De Rossi
Porwanie Sabinek
Film • 1961
jako Dusia
Le Puits aux trois vérités
Film • 1961
jako Rossana
Mara
Film • 1961
jako Mara
The Festival Girls
Film • 1961
jako Nadja
Les filles sèment le vent
Film • 1961
jako Kissa
La grande vallata
Film • 1961
Il mulino delle donne di pietra
Film • 1960
jako Elfie Wahl
La Venere dei pirati
Film • 1960
jako Isabella, the Duke's Daughter
I piaceri del sabato notte
Film • 1960
jako Patrizia
Noi duri
Film • 1960
jako Josette
Genitori in blue-jeans
Film • 1960
jako Colette
Les canailles
Film • 1960
jako Gina
Agi Murad, il diavolo bianco
Film • 1959
jako Princess Mario Vorontsova
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Film • 1959
jako Toni
I ragazzi dei Parioli
Film • 1959
jako Nuccia
Gambe d'oro
Film • 1958
jako Gianna Savelli
Filles de nuit
Film • 1958
jako Lola
Gente felice
Film • 1957
jako Gina
Due sosia in allegria
Film • 1956
Tua per la vita
Film • 1955
jako La sartina dell' Atelier