Scilla Gabel

Known for ActingBorn 1938-01-04 (age 88)Rimini, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Djurado

Arms of the Avenger

Tender Sharks

Seven Slaves Against the World

The Odyssey

Gente felice

Dov'è Anna?

Vino e pane

La salamandre d'or

Due sosia in allegria

Odissea

No Man's Land

Con rispetto parlando

Two Colonels

I ragazzi dei Parioli

Take Me As I Am

Three Faces of Sin

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

Johnny Belinda

Una storia di notte

The Revenge of the Gladiators

The Fruit Is Ripe

Girls of the Night

Tua per la vita

How to Seduce a Playboy?

Noi duri

Village of Daughters

Target for Killing

Genitori in blue-jeans

Il terrore dei mantelli rossi

The Shortest Day

Outlaws of Love

Le donne del Tenente Sheridan

Mill of the Stone Women

The Festival Girls

The Queen of the Pirates

Corpse for the Lady

Bastard, Go and Kill

Sodom and Gomorrah

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

Modesty Blaise

Colossus of the Arena

Legs of Gold

Romulus and the Sabines

The White Warrior

Mara

Son of Cleopatra

I piaceri del sabato notte