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Scilla Gabel
Acting

Scilla Gabel
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-01-04,Rimini, Italy
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

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Tender Sharks
1967-03-10

7

No Man's Land
1962-03-02

5.2

Modesty Blaise
1966-05-01

7.7

Odissea
1968-03-24

Mill of the Stone Women

6

Mill of the Stone Women
1960-08-30

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

5.3

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
1959-07-08

Take Me As I Am

6

Take Me As I Am
1960-01-29

Una storia di notte

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Una storia di notte
1964-01-01

6.5

Noi duri
1960-02-24

7.487

Two Colonels
1963-01-05

Bastard, Go and Kill

4.6

Bastard, Go and Kill
1971-03-06

Tua per la vita

0

Tua per la vita
1955-10-04

0

Djurado
1966-08-20

The Festival Girls

5

The Festival Girls
1961-07-06

5

Legs of Gold
1958-08-27

How to Seduce a Playboy?

6

How to Seduce a Playboy?
1966-11-23

Target for Killing

5.7

Target for Killing
1966-09-29

The Queen of the Pirates

4.9

The Queen of the Pirates
1960-08-18

Colossus of the Arena

4

Colossus of the Arena
1962-09-13

Village of Daughters

5.5

Village of Daughters
1962-03-13

Corpse for the Lady

5.1

Corpse for the Lady
1964-08-19

Son of Cleopatra

4

Son of Cleopatra
1964-12-31

The Fruit Is Ripe

6

The Fruit Is Ripe
1961-06-22

The White Warrior

5.2

The White Warrior
1959-06-21

Sodom and Gomorrah

5.353

Sodom and Gomorrah
1962-10-04

Seven Slaves Against the World

9

Seven Slaves Against the World
1964-08-28

Girls of the Night

0

Girls of the Night
1958-04-16

The Revenge of the Gladiators

0

The Revenge of the Gladiators
1964-09-24

0

Gente felice
1957-03-08

0

Johnny Belinda
1969-01-01

La salamandre d'or

0

La salamandre d'or
1962-12-31

Three Faces of Sin

6.3

Three Faces of Sin
1961-09-12

Outlaws of Love

5

Outlaws of Love
1963-12-03

Il terrore dei mantelli rossi

5

Il terrore dei mantelli rossi
1963-08-11

Romulus and the Sabines

5

Romulus and the Sabines
1961-11-15

I ragazzi dei Parioli

6.7

I ragazzi dei Parioli
1959-02-18

Arms of the Avenger

8.5

Arms of the Avenger
1963-10-31

Genitori in blue-jeans

6.3

Genitori in blue-jeans
1960-02-10

I piaceri del sabato notte

2

I piaceri del sabato notte
1960-05-04

0

Mara
1961-08-28

The Shortest Day

5.8

The Shortest Day
1963-02-14

Con rispetto parlando

6

Con rispetto parlando
1965-08-14

8.5

Dov'è Anna?
1976-01-13

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

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That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
1983-09-18

8.9

The Odyssey
1968-03-24