Scilla Gabel

Scilla Gabel

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.

  • Popularity : 2.715
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1938-01-04
  • Place of Birth : Rimini, Italy
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Scilla Gabel Movies

  • 1967
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    Tender Sharks

    Tender Sharks

    1 1967 HD

    While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.

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  • 1962
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    No Man's Land

    No Man's Land

    7 1962 HD

    A group of traveling persons end up as prisoners of a German sergeant and his squad, in an isolated and precarious cabin in the country.

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  • 1966
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    Modesty Blaise

    Modesty Blaise

    5.2 1966 HD

    Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government...

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  • 1968
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    Odissea

    Odissea

    7.7 1968 HD

    Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

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  • 1960
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    Mill of the Stone Women

    Mill of the Stone Women

    6 1960 HD

    Hans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old windmill that displays famous murderesses and other...

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  • 1959
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    Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

    Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

    5.3 1959 HD

    The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so...

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  • 1960
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    Take Me As I Am

    Take Me As I Am

    6 1960 HD

    The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff....

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  • 1964
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    Una storia di notte

    Una storia di notte

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1960
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    Noi duri

    Noi duri

    6.5 1960 HD

    Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.

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  • 1963
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    Two Colonels

    Two Colonels

    7.5 1963 HD

    In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.

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  • 1971
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    Bastard, Go and Kill

    Bastard, Go and Kill

    4.6 1971 HD

    Chaco, a Mexican on the run from just about everyone, is framed for the killing of a couple of Mexican cattlemen. Everyone knows he's innocent but...

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  • 1955
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    Tua per la vita

    Tua per la vita

    1 1955 HD

    A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.

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  • 1966
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    Djurado

    Djurado

    1 1966 HD

    Djurado is a gun-slinging professional gambler who struts into the small town of Silver Mine and wins half of the local saloon, the other part of...

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  • 1961
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    The Festival Girls

    The Festival Girls

    5 1961 HD

    Hollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals.

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  • 1958
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    Legs of Gold

    Legs of Gold

    5 1958 HD

    Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a...

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  • 1966
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    How to Seduce a Playboy?

    How to Seduce a Playboy?

    6 1966 HD

    A young man is chosen by a magazine company to be a modeled into a public heart-throb while being dogged by a persistant reporter out to expose the...

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  • 1966
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    Target for Killing

    Target for Killing

    5.7 1966 HD

    A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.

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  • 1960
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    The Queen of the Pirates

    The Queen of the Pirates

    4.9 1960 HD

    In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When...

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  • 1962
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    Colossus of the Arena

    Colossus of the Arena

    4 1962 HD

    A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a...

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  • 1962
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    Village of Daughters

    Village of Daughters

    5.5 1962 HD

    A salesman from England is picked to select one girl in an Italian town who will become a bride for a native son.

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  • 1964
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    Corpse for the Lady

    Corpse for the Lady

    5.1 1964 HD

    Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the...

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  • 1964
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    Son of Cleopatra

    Son of Cleopatra

    4 1964 HD

    In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns...

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  • 1961
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    The Fruit Is Ripe

    The Fruit Is Ripe

    6 1961 HD

    It is fruit-picking season in the plain and pickers come from all over and live in a camp for several weeks. Among the many pretty girls are Kissa, a...

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  • 1959
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    The White Warrior

    The White Warrior

    5.2 1959 HD

    The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.

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  • 1962
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    Sodom and Gomorrah

    Sodom and Gomorrah

    5.3 1962 HD

    Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen...

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  • 1964
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    Seven Slaves Against the World

    Seven Slaves Against the World

    9 1964 HD

    Tribune Marcus Aulus, out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians, arrives to take charge of an aqueduct project on the hot,...

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  • 1958
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    Girls of the Night

    Girls of the Night

    1 1958 HD

    In Marseille Father Hermann has created a home for the ex-prostitutes to accommodate a new start to a better life. But it does not take long to...

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  • 1964
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    The Revenge of the Gladiators

    The Revenge of the Gladiators

    1 1964 HD

    Friends of Spartacus achieve revenge on the plotter who tries to make political capital out of the rumor that he is still alive. It was shot back to...

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  • 1957
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    Gente felice

    Gente felice

    1 1957 HD

    Tanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary for the cemetery.

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  • 1969
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    Johnny Belinda

    Johnny Belinda

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1962
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    La salamandre d'or

    La salamandre d'or

    1 1962 HD

    In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon...

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  • 1961
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    Three Faces of Sin

    Three Faces of Sin

    6.3 1961 HD

    Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can...

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  • 1963
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    Outlaws of Love

    Outlaws of Love

    5 1963 HD

    This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios...

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  • 1963
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    Il terrore dei mantelli rossi

    Il terrore dei mantelli rossi

    5 1963 HD

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  • 1961
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    Romulus and the Sabines

    Romulus and the Sabines

    5 1961 HD

    The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there...

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  • 1959
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    I ragazzi dei Parioli

    I ragazzi dei Parioli

    6.7 1959 HD

    A tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time.

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  • 1963
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    Arms of the Avenger

    Arms of the Avenger

    8.5 1963 HD

    Using Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other machinery, three brothers join forces to fight a wicked and...

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  • 1960
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    Genitori in blue-jeans

    Genitori in blue-jeans

    6.3 1960 HD

    Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.

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  • 1960
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    I piaceri del sabato notte

    I piaceri del sabato notte

    2 1960 HD

    Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

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  • 1961
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    Mara

    Mara

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Shortest Day

    The Shortest Day

    5.8 1963 HD

    Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

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  • 1965
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    Con rispetto parlando

    Con rispetto parlando

    6 1965 HD

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  • 1976
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    Dov'è Anna?

    Dov'è Anna?

    8.5 1976 HD

    Italian mini series

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  • 1983
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    That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

    That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

    1 1983 HD

    Italian miniseries about a homicide that occurred in Rome during the 1920s.

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  • 1968
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    The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    8.9 1968 HD

    Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.

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