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
- Rimini Rimini as sorella dell'ingegnere
- Cinderella '87 as Mafalda Gherardeschi
1984
- Cinderella '80 as Mafalda Gherardeschi
- ...e la vita continua as Evelina
- 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
- Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza as Mariù
- The House of Exorcism as Sophia Lehar (archive footage)
1974
- Witness to Murder as Sonja Dorigny
- The Author's Crime as Milena Gottardi
- Las correrías del Vizconde Arnau as Zoraida
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
- The Great Swindle as Lola
- Homo Eroticus as Carla
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as La moglie del presentatore
- Sex of the Devil as Sylvia, the Assistant
- You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife as Susana
- African Story as Barbara Hayland (as Silva Koscina)
- Les Jambes en l'air as Favouille Grandblaise
1970
- Hornets' Nest as Bianca
- The Dove Must Not Fly as Anne
- Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move as La baronessa di Valdarno
- The Modification as Cécile
- Vertigo For A Killer as Sylvie
1969
- Marquis de Sade: Justine as Marquise de Bressac
- The Battle of Neretva as Danica
- I See Naked as Self
- The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal as Theodora
- He and She as She
1968
- A Lovely Way to Die as Rena Westabrook
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Countess Francesca De Montefiore
- The Fight for Rome as Empress Theodora
- The Protagonists as Nancy
1967
- Deadlier Than the Male as Penelope
- Three Bites of the Apple as Carla Moretti
- Italy's in Season as Self
- Johnny Banco as Laureen Moore
1966
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others as The 'Star'
- Agent X-77 Orders to Kill as Mania
- Four Queens for an Ace as Dolores Arrabal, Fashion Designer
- Funny Money as Lucile
1965
- Juliet of the Spirits as Sylva
- Made in Italy as Diana (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 3") (as Silva Koscina)
- That Man in Istanbul as Kenny
- The Dictator's Guns as Rae Osborne
- Thrilling as Paola (segment "L'autostrada del sole")
- The Double Bed as Giulietta / Peggy
- Il morbidone as Irene
- Money as Leda
1964
- Hot Enough for June as Vlasta Simoneva
- Let's Talk About Women as Reluctant Girl
- Cyrano and d'Artagnan as Ninon de Lenclos
- Love and Marriage as (segment "Sabato 18 luglio")
- Love in Four Dimensions as Irma, la moglie (segment "Amore e vita")
- Corpse for the Lady as Laura Guglielmetti
- The Circular Triangle as Alexandra Fonseca
- Una storia di notte as Maddalena
1963
- Judex as Daisy
- Rampage as Stewardess
- The Shortest Day
- The Little Nuns as Elena
- The Scapegoat as Clemenza, Barbo's Wife
- Girl's Apartment as Eléna
1962
- Jessica as Nunzia Tuffi
- The Four Truths as Mia (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
- The Masseuses as Marisa
- The Swordsman of Siena as Orietta Arconti
- The Iron Mask as Marion
- Copacabana Palace as Ines
- La salamandre d'or as (uncredited)
1961
- Destination Fury
- Blood Feud as Carla
1960
- Siege of Syracuse as Clio
- Trapped by Fear as Arabelle
- The Traffic Policeman as Herself
- Love, the Italian Way as Luciana
- ...And Suddenly It's Murder! as Carolina
- Ravishing as Evelyne Cotteret
- Genitori in blue-jeans as Elena
- Le pillole di Ercole as Silvia Pasqui
- Mariti in pericolo as Silvana
- I piaceri dello scapolo as Eby
1959
- Hercules Unchained as Iole, bride of Ercole
- La cambiale as Odette Mercury
- Poor Millionaires as Alice
- Uncle Was a Vampire as Carla
- The Woman's Confidant as Maria Bonifati
- The Surprises of Love as Marianna
1958
- Hercules as Iole, Daugher of Pelias
- Love on the Riviera as Renata Morandi
- Totò in the Moon as Lidia
- Dangerous Women as Tosca
- Young Husbands as Mara
- La nipote Sabella as Lucia
- He Thief, She Thief as Cesira De Angelis
- Toto in Paris as Juliette Marchand
- Quando gli angeli piangono as Marta
1957
- Guendalina as Francesca Redaelli, madre di Guendalina
- Oh! Sabella as Lucia
- The Mighty Crusaders as Clorinda (as Silva Koscina)
- Engaged to Death as Lucia
- Female Three Times as Sonia
- Non sono più guaglione as Carolina
- 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