Dina De Santis
Dina De Santis (actually Carlotta Provin ; born December 21, 1943 in Vicenza ) is a former Italian actress .
Life
The blonde, graceful and extremely beautiful actress, who won a beauty contest as a child and worked for theater and advertising at an early age, made her film debut in 1954. Director Pino Mercanti advised her to use her stage name. She mostly played her numerous roles in the second row and in works that hardly knew how to use her abilities apart from her looks. She has also been featured as Dina De Saint in her numerous adventure films , westerns , sandal films , and agent strips . After an engagement for Federico Fellini's Julia und die Geister did not improve the supply situation for De Santis, she retired from acting in 1968. The year before, she had married the actor Lucio De Santis and later worked several times as production secretary.
Filmography (selection)
- 1954: Lacrime d'amore
- 1960: The revenge of the red knight (Il cavaliere dai cento volti)
- 1961: Pirate Captain Mary (Le avventure di Mary Read)
- 1961: The Rape of the Sabine Women (Il ratto delle Sabine)
- 1964: For three dollars of lead (Tre dollari di piombo)
- 1964: Hercules - Avenger of Rome (Ercole contro Roma)
- 1964: The Damned Pistols of Dallas (Las malditas pistolas de Dallas)
- 1965: Greetings from the CIA (A 008: Operazione sterminio)
- 1965: Secret Service Hellhounds (Superseven chiama Cairo)
- 1965: Julia and the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti)
- 1966: The finale delivers Zorro (Zorro il ribelle)
- 1967: Delitto a Posilippo
Web links
- Dina De Santis in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enrico Lancia: Article Dina De Santis , in: Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Le attrici. Rome 2003, pp. 108/109
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Santis, Dina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Provin, Carlotta (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian former actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome , Italy |