Sylva Koscina
Born: 1933-08-22 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)
Died: 1994-12-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Sylva Koscina (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilva ˈkɔʃʃina]; born Silvija Košćina, pronounced [sǐlʋija kǒʃtɕina]; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylva Koscina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1992
- Ricky & Barabba as Cristina Bonelli
1991
- L'odissea as Minerva
1987
- Cinderella '87 as Mafalda Gherardeschi
- Rimini Rimini as sorella dell'ingegnere
1984
- ...e la vita continua as Evelina
- Cinderella '80 as Mafalda Gherardeschi
- Die Nacht der vier Monde as (special guest)
1983
- This and That as Dora, madre di Daniela
- Magic Touch as Contessa Irene
1981
- Ace as Enrichetta
1980
- Sunday Lovers as Zaira (segment "Armando's Notebook")
1977
- Casanova & Co. as The Prefect's Wife
- Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti as Self - Clorinda (archive footage)
1975
- The House of Exorcism as Sophia Lehar (archive footage)
- Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza as Mariù
1974
- Witness to Murder as Sonja Dorigny
- Las correrías del Vizconde Arnau as Zoraida
- The Author's Crime as Milena Gottardi
1973
- Lisa and the Devil as Sophia Lehar
- My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure as La moglie del tintore
1972
- So Sweet, So Dead as Barbara Capuana
- The Italian Connection as Lucia Canali
- The Crimes of the Black Cat as Françoise Ballais
- Nights of Boccaccio as Fiammetta
- Blessed Are the Rich as Contessa
- To Kill in Silence as Valeria's mother
1971
- Homo Eroticus as Carla
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as La moglie del presentatore
- The Great Swindle as Lola
- African Story as Barbara Hayland (as Silva Koscina)
- Sex of the Devil as Sylvia, the Assistant
- Les Jambes en l'air as Favouille Grandblaise
- You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife as Susana
1970
- Hornets' Nest as Bianca
- Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move as La baronessa di Valdarno
- The Dove Must Not Fly as Anne
- Vertigo for a Killer as Sylvie
- The Modification as Cécile
1969
- Marquis de Sade: Justine as Marquise de Bressac
- The Battle of Neretva as Danica
- I See Naked as Self
- He and She as She
- The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal as Theodora
1968
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Countess Francesca De Montefiore
- A Lovely Way to Die as Rena Westabrook
- The Fight for Rome as Empress Theodora
- The Protagonists as Nancy
1967
- Deadlier Than the Male as Penelope
- Johnny Banco as Laureen Moore
- Three Bites of the Apple as Carla Moretti
- Italy's in Season as Self
1966
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others as The 'Star'
- Funny Money as Lucile
- Agent X-77 Orders to Kill as Mania
- Four Queens for an Ace as Dolores Arrabal, Fashion Designer
1965
- That Man in Istanbul as Kenny
- Juliet of the Spirits as Sylva
- Il morbidone as Irene
- Made in Italy as Diana (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 3") (as Silva Koscina)
- The Double Bed as Giulietta / Peggy
- Thrilling as Paola (segment "L'autostrada del sole")
- The Dictator's Guns as Rae Osborne
- Money as Leda
1964
- Hot Enough for June as Vlasta Simoneva
- Cyrano and d'Artagnan as Ninon de Lenclos
- Let's Talk About Women as Reluctant Girl
- Love and Marriage as (segment "Sabato 18 luglio")
- Corpse for the Lady as Laura Guglielmetti
- The Circular Triangle as Alexandra Fonseca
- Love in Four Dimensions as Irma, la moglie (segment "Amore e vita")
- Una storia di notte as Maddalena
1963
- Judex as Daisy
- The Shortest Day
- Rampage as Stewardess
- Girl's Apartment as Eléna
- The Scapegoat as Clemenza, Barbo's Wife
- The Little Nuns as Elena
1962
- Copacabana Palace as Ines
- Jessica as Nunzia Tuffi
- The Iron Mask as Marion
- The Four Truths as Mia (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
- The Masseuses as Marisa
- The Swordsman of Siena as Orietta Arconti
- La salamandre d'or as (uncredited)
1961
- Blood Feud as Carla
- Destination Fury
1960
- ...And Suddenly It's Murder! as Carolina
- Love, the Italian Way as Luciana
- Ravishing as Evelyne Cotteret
- Siege of Syracuse as Clio
- The Traffic Policeman as Herself
- Genitori in blue-jeans as Elena
- Trapped by Fear as Arabelle
- Mariti in pericolo as Silvana
- Le pillole di Ercole as Silvia Pasqui
- I piaceri dello scapolo as Eby
1959
- Hercules Unchained as Iole, bride of Ercole
- La cambiale as Odette Mercury
- Poor Millionaires as Alice
- The Surprises of Love as Marianna
- Uncle Was a Vampire as Carla
- The Woman's Confidant as Maria Bonifati
1958
- Hercules as Iole, Daugher of Pelias
- Love on the Riviera as Renata Morandi
- He Thief, She Thief as Cesira De Angelis
- Young Husbands as Mara
- Totò in the Moon as Lidia
- Toto in Paris as Juliette Marchand
- La nipote Sabella as Lucia
- Dangerous Women as Tosca
- Quando gli angeli piangono as Marta
1957
- Guendalina as Francesca Redaelli, madre di Guendalina
- Engaged to Death as Lucia
- Female Three Times as Sonia
- The Mighty Crusaders as Clorinda (as Silva Koscina)
- Non sono più guaglione as Carolina
- Oh! Sabella as Lucia
- The Innocent with Forty Children as Gina Lantois
1956
- Michael Strogoff as Sangarine
- The Railroad Man as Giulia Marcocci
1955
- Are We Men or Corporals? as The aspiring actress
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self
1951
- Sanremo Music Festival as Self - Host