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    Scilla Gabel

    1938-01-04 (87 years old) in Rimini, Italy

    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.

    Movies

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    Bastard, Go and Kill
    46 %|Mar 6, 1971
    Western
    actor
    Johnny Belinda
    0 %|Jan 1, 1969
    poster
    Odissea
    77.29 %|Mar 24, 1968
    TV Movie, Adventure, History
    poster
    Tender Sharks
    0 %|Mar 10, 1967
    Action, Comedy
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    How to Seduce a Playboy?
    60 %|Nov 23, 1966
    Comedy
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    Target for Killing
    57 %|Sep 29, 1966
    Crime, Drama, Thriller
    poster
    Djurado
    0 %|Aug 20, 1966
    Western
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    Modesty Blaise
    52 %|May 1, 1966
    Comedy, Crime, Action, Thriller
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    Con rispetto parlando
    60 %|Aug 14, 1965
    poster
    Son of Cleopatra
    40 %|Dec 31, 1964
    Adventure, Drama
    poster
    The Revenge of the Gladiators
    0 %|Sep 24, 1964
    History, Adventure
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    Seven Slaves Against the World
    90 %|Aug 28, 1964
    History, Adventure
    poster
    Corpse for the Lady
    51 %|Aug 19, 1964
    Comedy
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    Una storia di notte
    0 %|Jan 1, 1964
    Drama
    poster
    Outlaws of Love
    50 %|Dec 3, 1963
    Drama
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    Arms of the Avenger
    85 %|Oct 31, 1963
    Adventure
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    Il terrore dei mantelli rossi
    50 %|Aug 11, 1963
    History, Adventure
    poster
    The Shortest Day
    61.67 %|Feb 14, 1963
    Comedy, History, War
    poster
    Two Colonels
    75.19 %|Jan 5, 1963
    Comedy
    poster
    La salamandre d'or
    0 %|Dec 31, 1962
    Drama
    poster
    Sodom and Gomorrah
    54 %|Oct 4, 1962
    Adventure, Drama, History
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    Colossus of the Arena
    40 %|Sep 13, 1962
    Adventure, Action, Drama
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    Village of Daughters
    55 %|Mar 13, 1962
    Comedy
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    No Man's Land
    70 %|Mar 2, 1962
    Drama
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    Romulus and the Sabines
    50 %|Nov 15, 1961
    Adventure
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    Three Faces of Sin
    63 %|Sep 12, 1961
    Comedy
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    Mara
    0 %|Aug 28, 1961
    Drama
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    The Festival Girls
    50 %|Jul 6, 1961
    Drama
    actor
    The Fruit Is Ripe
    60 %|Jun 22, 1961
    Drama
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    Mill of the Stone Women
    61 %|Aug 30, 1960
    Horror, Science Fiction
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    The Queen of the Pirates
    49 %|Aug 18, 1960
    Action, Adventure
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    I piaceri del sabato notte
    20 %|May 4, 1960
    Drama
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    Noi duri
    65 %|Feb 24, 1960
    Comedy
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    Genitori in blue-jeans
    63 %|Feb 10, 1960
    Comedy
    poster
    Take Me As I Am
    60 %|Jan 29, 1960
    Thriller
    poster
    Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
    53 %|Jul 8, 1959
    Adventure
    poster
    The White Warrior
    51 %|Jun 21, 1959
    Action, Adventure, History
    poster
    I ragazzi dei Parioli
    67 %|Feb 18, 1959
    Drama
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    Legs of Gold
    50 %|Aug 27, 1958
    Comedy
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    Girls of the Night
    0 %|Apr 16, 1958
    Drama
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    Gente felice
    0 %|Mar 8, 1957
    Comedy
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    Tua per la vita
    0 %|Oct 4, 1955
    Drama, Romance

    Series

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    Dov'è Anna?
    85 %|Jan 13, 1976
    Drama
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    The Odyssey
    88 %|Mar 24, 1968
    Drama, , Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy