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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 16.541 |
Birthday | 1938-01-04 |
Place of Birth | Rimini, Italy |
Also Known As | Сцилла Габель, Gianfranca Gabellini, |
1967
Tender Sharks
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While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
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1966
Modesty Blaise
5.2/64
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1968
Odissea
7.717/23
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
Mill of the Stone Women
5.9/67
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1959
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
5.279/43
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 they...
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1959
The White Warrior
5.2/8
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1960
Noi duri
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1963
Two Colonels
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Bastard, Go and Kill
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1966
Djurado
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Djurado
1961
The Festival Girls
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Hollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals.
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1958
Legs of Gold
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1966
How to Seduce a Playboy?
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1960
The Queen of the Pirates
5.5/2
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1966
Target for Killing
5.7/6
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1962
Colossus of the Arena
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1962
Village of Daughters
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1964
Corpse for the Lady
5.1/5
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1964
Son of Cleopatra
4/5
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1961
The Fruit Is Ripe
6/1
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1964
Seven Slaves Against the World
8/1
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Seven Slaves Against the World
1964
The Revenge of the Gladiators
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1957
Gente felice
0/0
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1961
Three Faces of Sin
6.3/3
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Three Faces of Sin
1963
Outlaws of Love
5/2
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1963
Il terrore dei mantelli rossi
5/1
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1961
Romulus and the Sabines
5/11
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1959
I ragazzi dei Parioli
6.7/3
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1963
Arms of the Avenger
8.5/1
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1960
Genitori in blue-jeans
6.3/7
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1960
I piaceri del sabato notte
2/2
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1961
Mara
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1963
The Shortest Day
5.8/22
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1965
Con rispetto parlando
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1962
No Man's Land
7/1
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1960
Take Me As I Am
6/2
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1964
Una storia di notte
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1955
Tua per la vita
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1958
Girls of the Night
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1962
Sodom and Gomorrah
5.3/32
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Johnny Belinda
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1962
La salamandre d'or
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