Gabriella Licudi
Gabriella Licudi (born September 14, 1941 in Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire ) is a British actress . She starred in several motion pictures in the 1960s. Including in L - The Silent One , Casino Royale , Mini Skirt and Crown Jewels and The Last Safari .
life and career
Gabriella Licudi was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1941. Her father, a Greek naval engineer, traveled a lot for work and so Gabriella was raised in England, France and Spain before the family settled permanently in England in the mid-1950s.
Licudi took speech lessons and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama , where she was discovered by a film agent during a class performance in 1961. She made her television debut in 1961 alongside Christopher Lee in an episode of the Alcoa Presents series : One Step Beyond . She also made her first film appearance in the 1962 drama The Hot Night, directed by Basil Dearden .
She played her first major role on stage in 1964 alongside Trevor Howard in John Mortimer's play Two Stars for Comfort . It ran for nine months in London's West End . Film producer Samuel Bronston attended a performance and then offered her a small role in his monumental epic The Fall of the Roman Empire . The director John Krish cast her in his B-movie science fiction film Unearthly Stranger in the female lead. In Michael Winner's comedy film You Must Be Joking! the positive trend continued in 1965. In Jack Cardiff's lavish agent parody L - The Silent with Rod Taylor , she played the second leading female role as Corale behind Jill St. John .
In 1967, the director Michael Winner used it again in his crook comedy Miniskirt and Crown Jewels , followed by a sexy appearance as the hostile agent Eliza in the expensive and star-spiked James Bond episode Casino Royale . In the same year Gabriella Licudi played alongside Stewart Granger in Henry Hathaway's African adventure film The Last Safari, probably her greatest film part.
Only a few productions for cinema and television followed. In 1974 Licudi had her last cinema appearance in Roy Boulting's comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles alongside stars like Peter Sellers and Curd Jürgens .
She and her husband then ran a safari lodge in South Africa for several years before returning to London to start their own production company.
Filmography (selection)
- 1962: All Night Long
- 1964: The Fall of the Roman Empire (The Fall of the Roman Empire)
- 1964: Unearthly Stranger
- 1965: You Must Be Joking!
- 1965: L - Der Lautlose (The Liquidator)
- 1967: Casino Royale (Casino Royale)
- 1967: Mini Skirt and Crown Jewels (The Jokers)
- 1967: The last Safari (The Last Safari)
- 1972: In the Clutches of Madame Sin (Madame Sin)
- 1974: Soft Beds, Hard Battles
literature
Web links
- Gabriella Licudi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Films by Gabriella Licudi with German distribution titles
- Filmography by Gabriella Licudi in: The New York Times
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gabriella Licudi in: Screen World Vol. 18 1967 , by John Willis, 1983, p. 192
- ↑ Gabriella Licudi in: John Huston: Interviews by John Huston, Robert Emmet Long, Univ. Press of Mississippi 1983, p. Xxxiii
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Licudi, Gabriella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aylesbury , Buckinghamshire , England |