Scilla Gabel

Scilla Gabel

Acting 1938-01-04 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.

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1976 Paola Silvestri
1973 Annina
1971 Susanna
1969 Belinda
1968 Elen
1968 Elena
1967 Zeezee
1966 Melina
1966 Barbara Donovan
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1966 Anita Bionda
1965 Vittoria Oriani, in arte Patricia D'Altamura
1964 Turista tedesca
1964 Renata
1964 Livia
1964 Cinzia
1963 Iride
1963 Isabella - duchessina di Collinalto
1963 L'amante di un soldato (uncredited)
1962 Signora De Rossi
1962 Thalima
1962 Angelina Vimereati
1962 Tamar
1962 Béatrice
1961 Nadja
1961 Dusia
1961 Mara
1960 Elfie Wahl
1960 Gina
1960 Josette
1960 Isabella, the Duke's Daughter
1960 Colette
1960 Patrizia
1959 Toni
1959 Princess Mario Vorontsova
1959 Nuccia
1958 Gianna Savelli
1958 Lola
1957 Gina
1955 La sartina dell' Atelier