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Scilla Gabel‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1938-01-04

Popularity

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Scilla Gabel

Rimini, Italy

Scilla Gabel

Rimini, Italy

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1938-01-04

Popularity

star1.7

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.

Movie Credits

Tender Sharks

Tender Sharks‌
star0.0
calendar 1967

No Man's Land

No Man's Land‌
star7.0
calendar 1962

Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise‌
star5.2
calendar 1966

Odissea

Odissea‌
star7.7
calendar 1968

Mill of the Stone Women

Mill of the Stone Women‌
star6.0
calendar 1960

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure‌
star5.3
calendar 1959

Take Me As I Am

Take Me As I Am‌
star6.0
calendar 1960

Una storia di notte

Una storia di notte‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

Noi duri

Noi duri‌
star6.5
calendar 1960

Two Colonels

Two Colonels‌
star7.5
calendar 1963

Bastard, Go and Kill

Bastard, Go and Kill‌
star4.6
calendar 1971

Tua per la vita

Tua per la vita‌
star0.0
calendar 1955

Djurado

Djurado‌
star0.0
calendar 1966

The Festival Girls

The Festival Girls‌
star5.0
calendar 1961

Legs of Gold

Legs of Gold‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

How to Seduce a Playboy?

How to Seduce a Playboy?‌
star6.0
calendar 1966

Target for Killing

Target for Killing‌
star5.7
calendar 1966

The Queen of the Pirates

The Queen of the Pirates‌
star4.9
calendar 1960

Colossus of the Arena

Colossus of the Arena‌
star4.0
calendar 1962

Village of Daughters

Village of Daughters‌
star5.5
calendar 1962

Corpse for the Lady

Corpse for the Lady‌
star5.1
calendar 1964

Son of Cleopatra

Son of Cleopatra‌
star4.0
calendar 1964

The Fruit Is Ripe

The Fruit Is Ripe‌
star6.0
calendar 1961

The White Warrior

The White Warrior‌
star5.1
calendar 1959

Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah‌
star5.4
calendar 1962

Seven Slaves Against the World

Seven Slaves Against the World‌
star9.0
calendar 1964

Girls of the Night

Girls of the Night‌
star0.0
calendar 1958

The Revenge of the Gladiators

The Revenge of the Gladiators‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

Gente felice

Gente felice‌
star0.0
calendar 1957

Johnny Belinda

Johnny Belinda‌
star0.0
calendar 1969

La salamandre d'or

La salamandre d'or‌
star0.0
calendar 1962

Three Faces of Sin

Three Faces of Sin‌
star6.3
calendar 1961

Outlaws of Love

Outlaws of Love‌
star5.0
calendar 1963

Il terrore dei mantelli rossi

Il terrore dei mantelli rossi‌
star5.0
calendar 1963

Romulus and the Sabines

Romulus and the Sabines‌
star5.0
calendar 1961

I ragazzi dei Parioli

I ragazzi dei Parioli‌
star6.7
calendar 1959

Arms of the Avenger

Arms of the Avenger‌
star8.5
calendar 1963

Genitori in blue-jeans

Genitori in blue-jeans‌
star6.3
calendar 1960

I piaceri del sabato notte

I piaceri del sabato notte‌
star2.0
calendar 1960

Mara

Mara‌
star0.0
calendar 1961

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day‌
star5.8
calendar 1963

Con rispetto parlando

Con rispetto parlando‌
star6.0
calendar 1965

Tv Credits

Dov'è Anna?

Dov'è Anna?‌
star8.5
calendar 1976

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana‌
star0.0
calendar 1983

The Odyssey

The Odyssey‌
star8.9
calendar 1968