Scilla Gabel
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 4, 1938 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- Rimini, Italy
Biography
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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Filmography
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
TV · as Liliana Balducci · 4 eps
Dov'è Anna?
TV · as Paola Silvestri · 7 eps
Vino e pane
TV · as Annina · 4 eps
Bastard, Go and Kill
Movie · as Susanna
The Odyssey
Movie · as Helen
Johnny Belinda
Movie · as Belinda
Le avventure di Ulisse
Movie · as Elena
The Odyssey
TV · as Helen · 8 eps
Tender Sharks
Movie · as Zeezee
Modesty Blaise
Movie · as Melina
Djurado
Movie · as Barbara Donovan
How to Seduce a Playboy?
Movie · as Anita Bionda
Target for Killing
Movie · as La Tigra
Con rispetto parlando
Movie · as Vittoria Oriani, in arte Patricia D'Altamura
Le donne del Tenente Sheridan
TV · as Cheril · 6 eps
Una storia di notte
Movie · as Turista tedesca
Corpse for the Lady
Movie · as Renata
Son of Cleopatra
Movie · as Livia
Seven Slaves Against the World
Movie · as Claudia
The Revenge of the Gladiators
Movie · as Cinzia
Two Colonels
Movie · as Iride
Outlaws of Love
Movie · as Wilma
Il terrore dei mantelli rossi
Movie · as Cristina
Arms of the Avenger
Movie · as Isabella - duchessina di Collinalto
The Shortest Day
Movie · as L'amante di un soldato (uncredited)
No Man's Land
Movie · as Signora De Rossi
Colossus of the Arena
Movie · as Thalima
Village of Daughters
Movie · as Angelina Vimereati
Sodom and Gomorrah
Movie · as Tamar
La salamandre d'or
Movie · as Béatrice
The Festival Girls
Movie · as Nadja
The Fruit Is Ripe
Movie · as Kissa
Three Faces of Sin
Movie · as Rossana
Romulus and the Sabines
Movie · as Dusia
Mara
Movie · as Mara
La grande vallata
Movie
Mill of the Stone Women
Movie · as Elfie Wahl
Take Me As I Am
Movie · as Gina
Noi duri
Movie · as Josette
The Queen of the Pirates
Movie · as Isabella, the Duke's Daughter
Genitori in blue-jeans
Movie · as Colette
I piaceri del sabato notte
Movie · as Patrizia
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Movie · as Toni
The White Warrior
Movie · as Princess Mario Vorontsova
I ragazzi dei Parioli
Movie · as Nuccia
Legs of Gold
Movie · as Gianna Savelli
Girls of the Night
Movie · as Lola
Gente felice
Movie · as Gina
Due sosia in allegria
Movie
Tua per la vita
Movie · as La sartina dell' Atelier