Luciana Paluzzi
Luciana Paluzzi | |
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Born | Rome, Kingdom of Italy | 10 June 1937
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1953–1978 |
Spouses | |
Partner(s) | Tony Anthony (1960s–1970s) |
Children | 1 |
Luciana Paluzzi (born 10 June 1937) is an Italian actress. She is perhaps best known for playing SPECTRE assassin Fiona Volpe in the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball, but she had important roles in notable films of the 1960s and 1970s in both the Italian film industry and Hollywood, including Chuka, The Green Slime, 99 Women, Black Gunn, The Klansman and The Sensuous Nurse.
Career
Film
Paluzzi was born in Rome and was brought up there. She went to Milan and studied naval engineering for two years at the Scientific Academy of Milan, being the only woman in her class.[1][2]
One of her first roles was an uncredited walk-on part in
Paluzzi went on to appear in many movies, most of which were made in her native Italy. In her early films, she is credited as Luciana Paoluzzi.
In 1957, she came to England to appear in the British war film No Time To Die (also known as Tank Force) alongside Victor Mature where she was directed by Terence Young.[3] She was then cast in the British action drama Sea Fury as the Spanish-born Josita, who is fought over by Stanley Baker and Victor McLaglen's characters.[4][5]
In 1959, Paluzzi went to Hollywood under contract with Twentieth Century Fox Television to star as a regular in the 20th Century Fox Television series Five Fingers, which was cancelled after three months.[6][7] Paluzzi then played Rafaella, the wife of Brett Halsey's character Ted Carter, in 1961's Return to Peyton Place.
From 1963 to 1965, Paluzzi almost exclusively appeared in Italian productions.[6]
In 1965, Paluzzi was cast as SPECTRE villainess,
Paluzzi appeared in such films as Muscle Beach Party (1964) and Chuka (1967). She co-starred in the 1969 women in prison film 99 Women,[9] and as a Southern belle in the 1974 Hollywood drama The Klansman (with her voice dubbed by American actress Joanna Moore), again for Terence Young.
Television
In 1959–60, Paluzzi appeared with
Personal life
In 1960, Paluzzi married actor Brett Halsey, who had just left his marriage with Renate Hoy, an actress and Miss Germany of 1954. The two co-starred as a newlywed couple in the film, Return to Peyton Place. The couple had one son, Christian, and after they divorced in 1962 Halsey married Heidi Brühl.[13]
During the 1960s and 1970s, Paluzzi had a long-term relationship with Tony Anthony, with whom she appeared in the films Wounds of Hunger and Come Together. Her work in Japan on The Green Slime inspired Anthony to write and produce the hybrid Spaghetti Western-jidaigeki film The Silent Stranger.[14]
In 1979, Paluzzi married her current husband, American media mogul
Paluzzi and her husband also resided at an exclusive clifftop estate on the Pacific Ocean in Jalisco, Mexico, known as "Casa Dos Estrellas".[20][21] The couple sold that estate in about 2005 to live in New York and Rome, to be close to family.
Selected filmography
- Sua altezza ha detto: no! (1953) – Nanú
- Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) – Angela Bianchi (uncredited)
- My Seven Little Sins (1954) – Pat
- Il vetturale del Moncenisio (1954)
- Adriana Lecouvreur (1955)
- Faccia da mascalzone (1956)
- The Lebanese Mission (1956) – Michèle Hennequin
- Mademoiselle Striptease (1956) – Sophia
- Guaglione (1956) – Marisa's Friend
- La donna che venne dal mare (1957)
- Hercules (1958) – Luciana Paoluzzi
- No Time to Die (1958) – Carola
- Si le roi savait ça (1958)
- Sea Fury (1958) – Josita
- The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) – Bharani – Seetha's servant
- Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) – Her Serene Highness Princess Ilyena
- My Wife's Enemy (1959) – Giulia
- Return to Peyton Place (1961) – Raffaella
- Bonanza (1962, Episode: "The Dowry") – Michele Dubois
- The Reluctant Saint (1962) – Carlotta (scenes deleted)
- Vice and Virtue (1963) – Héléna
- Wounds of Hunger (1963) – Estela
- Burke's Law (1964, Episode: "Who killed Marty Kelso") – Mia Bandini
- Hazel (TV series) (1964, Episode: "Arrivederci, Mr. B.") - Carla
- To Trap a Spy (1964) – Angela (archive footage)
- Muscle Beach Party (1964) – Julie
- Questa volta parliamo di uomini (1965) – Manuela (segment "Un uomo d'onore")
- I Kill, You Kill (1965) – La mamma (segment "Giochi acerbi")
- Thunderball (1965) – Fiona Volpe
- The Venetian Affair (1966) – Giulia Almeranti
- The One Eyed Soldiers (1966) – Gava Berens
- Chuka (1967) – Veronica Kleitz
- The Green Slime (1968) – Dr. Lisa Benson
- OSS 117 – Double Agent (1968) – Maud, a female doctor
- A Black Veil for Lisa (1968) – Lisa
- La esclava del paraíso (1968) – Mizziana
- 1001 Nights (1968) – Mizziana
- 99 Women (1969) – Natalie Mendoza
- Carnal Circuit (1969) – Mary Sullivan
- The Forgotten Pistolero (1969) – Anna Carrasco
- Playgirl 70 (1969) – Luisa
- Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) – Mala
- Il segreto dei soldati di argilla (1970)
- The Man Who Came from Hate (1971) – Theresa
- Come Together (1971) – Lisa
- Il sergente Klems (1971) – Frida
- The Two Faces of Fear (1972) – Elena Carli
- Colpo grosso... grossissimo... anzi probabile (1972) – Jacqueline
- The Italian Connection (1972) – Eva Lalli
- Black Gunn (1972) – Toni
- Tragic Ceremony (1972) – Lady Alexander
- Medusa (1973) – Sarah
- The Great Kidnapping (1973) – Renata Boletti
- War Goddess (1973) – Phaedra
- Mean Mother (1974) – Therese
- The Klansman (1974) – Trixie
- La sbandata (1974) – Rosa – wife of Raffaele
- Manhunt in the City (1975) – Vera Vannucchi
- Calling All Police Cars(1975) – Ispettrice Giovanna Nunziante
- The Sensuous Nurse (1975) – Jole Scarpa
- Nick the Sting (1976) – Anna
- Hawaii Five-O (1978) Episode:"My Friend, the Enemy" – Liana Labella
- The Greek Tycoon (1978) – Paola Scotti
- Deadly Chase (1978) – Rosy (final film role)
References
- ISBN 978-0-7864-2476-4. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ^ a b Luciana Paluzzi and Martha Guptill (2016). LUCIANA PALUZZI – Bond Girl Extraordinaire (video stream). 2016 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Hunt Valley, MD: Bill Guptill. Event occurs at 01:14. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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- ISBN 978-0-313-30307-4. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
- ^ Noble, Peter (1976). Screen International Film and TV Year Book. Screen International, King Publications Limited. p. 124. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
- ^ a b Stathos, Enrico (3 March 1965). "Viaggia su una moto lanciarazzi la nuova nemica dell' <<agente 007>>". Stampa Sera: 5. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-4766-0515-9. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- YouTube
- ^ Toledo Blade, 6 June 1969
- ^ "IMDb profile of Luciana Paluzzi". IMDb. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ ""12 O'Clock High" Face of a Shadow (TV Episode 1966)". IMDb.
- ^ "The Dog-Gone Affair". IMDB. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ "Luciana Paluzzi". Flickr. 4 June 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ Bayless, Jason (17 February 2010). "The Tony Anthony Interview – Re-broadcast". Zombie Popcorn Radio. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
- ^ United States Information Agency (1990). "michael+jay+solomon" Points of Light. pp. 68–69. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ a b c (Anonymous) (23 June 1982). "Luciana Paluzzi diventa manager. Non reciterà più". Stampa Sera (in Italian): 28. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ Unknown (October 1981). "Unknown". Broadcasting. Broadcasting Publications. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ Serafini, Dom. "Michael J. Solomon: A Master Salesman For Hollywood and a Marketing Genius". VideoAge International. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ Television/radio Age. Television Editorial Corporation. 1981. p. 59. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ^ "The Mexican villa of actress Luciana Paluzzi". mi6-hq.com. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ^ Casa Dos Estrellas – Costa Careyes Luxury Mansion Archived 23 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine (per 3 November 2013)
External links
- Luciana Paluzzi at IMDb
- Luciana Paluzzi at the TCM Movie Database
- Luciana Paluzzi at AllMovie