Anita Strindberg
Anita Strindberg, born Anita Edberg, is a former Swedish actress who became one of the most well-known stars of the Italian giallo films in the 1970s.
Strindberg started her career in "gialli" with Lucio Fulci's Una lucertola con la pelle di donna ("A Lizard in a Woman's Skin") in 1971 and starred in her first lead role that same year, in Sergio Martino -directed La coda dello scorpione ("Case of the Scorpion's Tail"). In 1972, she starred in two more gialli; in Aldo Lado's Chi l'ha vista morire? ("Who Saw Her Die?") with George Lazenby and Martino's Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave ("Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key") with Luigi Pistilli and Edwige Fenech.[1] After the early 1970s, Strindberg acted in many types of "genre films"; a women in prison film Diario segreto da un carcere femminile ("Women in Cell Block 7"), The Exorcist-like horror film L'anticristo ("The Antichrist") and a poliziotteschi film Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare ("Almost Human"), directed by Umberto Lenzi. Her last film was Riccardo Freda's Murder Obsession (Follia Omicida), also known as "Fear" and co-starred by Laura Gemser.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.321 |
Birthday | 1937-06-19 |
Place of Birth | Sweden |
Also Known As | Anita Edberg, |
1972
The Eroticist
5.6/21
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in quest...
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The Eroticist
1971
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
6.393/75
After her husband dies in a freak plane accident, a woman leaves London for Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy. She soon discovers t...
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The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
1976
My Father's Private Secretary
5/12
Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia.
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My Father's Private Secretary
1981
Murder Obsession
5/32
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to hi...
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Murder Obsession
1972
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
6.5/114
Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number o...
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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
1973
Women in Cell Block 7
4.9/6
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
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Women in Cell Block 7
1972
Tropic of Cancer
5.119/21
A couple on holiday in Haiti become involved in a series of savage murders linked to a doctors a new invention, a drug with extreme side effects.
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Tropic of Cancer
1974
Puzzle
5.685/27
In London, A man who has amnesia attempts to uncover the truth about his identity. A menacing individual accuses him of betrayal, and soon more pieces...
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Puzzle
1974
The Antichrist
6.158/92
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
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The Antichrist
1974
Almost Human
7/98
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the...
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Almost Human
1973
The African Deal
2/1
An inter-racial affair against a background of corrupt businessmen attempting to manipulate the national resources of an emerging nation that bears a...
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The African Deal
1971
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
6.551/148
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Dur...
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
1981
The Salamander
5.6/21
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a sala...
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The Salamander
1972
Winged Devils
1/1
The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers.
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Winged Devils
1959
Sköna Susanna och gubbarna
2/2
In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th ce...
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Sköna Susanna och gubbarna
1975
La verginella
2/0
A high school girl is lured into prostitution by a fashion photographer.
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La verginella
1957
Blonde in Bondage
4.6/8
A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.
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Blonde in Bondage
1973
Halleluja to Vera Cruz
0/0
Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the revolution.
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Halleluja to Vera Cruz
1970
Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
0/0
A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction
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Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
1974
La profanazione
2/1
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La profanazione
1976
L'inconveniente
2/1
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L'inconveniente
1972
Who Saw Her Die?
6.323/65
Between a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigat...
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Who Saw Her Die?
1972
The Two Faces of Fear
4.7/10
Doctor Miguel Azzini is found shot dead dead. The police suspect his colleagues: Elena Carli, his former mistress and owner of the clinic where he w...
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