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
- Las correrías del Vizconde Arnau as Zoraida
- The Author's Crime as Milena Gottardi
- Witness to Murder as Sonja Dorigny
1973
- Lisa and the Devil as Sophia Lehar
- My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure as La moglie del tintore
1972
- The Italian Connection as Lucia Canali
- So Sweet, So Dead as Barbara Capuana
- The Crimes of the Black Cat as Françoise Ballais
- Nights of Boccaccio as Fiammetta
- To Kill in Silence as Valeria's mother
- Blessed Are the Rich as Contessa
1971
- Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? as La moglie del presentatore
- Homo Eroticus as Carla
- African Story as Barbara Hayland (as Silva Koscina)
- Sex of the Devil as Sylvia, the Assistant
- You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife as Susana
- The Great Swindle as Lola
- Les Jambes en l'air as Favouille Grandblaise
1970
- Hornets' Nest as Bianca
- The Modification as Cécile
- Vertigo for a Killer as Sylvie
- The Dove Must Not Fly as Anne
- Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move as La baronessa di Valdarno
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
- The Secret War of Harry Frigg as Countess Francesca De Montefiore
- The Fight for Rome as Empress Theodora
- A Lovely Way to Die as Rena Westabrook
- The Protagonists as Nancy
1967
- Deadlier Than the Male as Penelope
- Three Bites of the Apple as Carla Moretti
- Johnny Banco as Laureen Moore
- Italy's in Season as Self
1966
- Me, Me, Me... and the Others as The 'Star'
- Agent X-77 Orders to Kill as Mania
- Funny Money as Lucile
- Four Queens for an Ace as Dolores Arrabal, Fashion Designer
1965
- Juliet of the Spirits as Sylva
- That Man in Istanbul as Kenny
- Made in Italy as Diana (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 3") (as Silva Koscina)
- The Dictator's Guns as Rae Osborne
- The Double Bed as Giulietta / Peggy
- Thrilling as Paola (segment "L'autostrada del sole")
- Il morbidone as Irene
- 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
- Corpse for the Lady as Laura Guglielmetti
- Love in Four Dimensions as Irma, la moglie (segment "Amore e vita")
- The Circular Triangle as Alexandra Fonseca
- Love and Marriage as (segment "Sabato 18 luglio")
- Una storia di notte as Maddalena
1963
- Judex as Daisy
- The Shortest Day
- The Scapegoat as Clemenza, Barbo's Wife
- Rampage as Stewardess
- The Little Nuns as Elena
- Girl's Apartment as Eléna
1962
- Jessica as Nunzia Tuffi
- Copacabana Palace as Ines
- The Iron Mask as Marion
- La salamandre d'or as (uncredited)
- The Four Truths as Mia (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
- The Swordsman of Siena as Orietta Arconti
- The Masseuses as Marisa
1961
- Blood Feud as Carla
- Destination Fury
1960
- Ravishing as Evelyne Cotteret
- ...And Suddenly It's Murder! as Carolina
- Love, the Italian Way as Luciana
- The Traffic Policeman as Herself
- Trapped by Fear as Arabelle
- I piaceri dello scapolo as Eby
- Siege of Syracuse as Clio
- Genitori in blue-jeans as Elena
- Mariti in pericolo as Silvana
- Le pillole di Ercole as Silvia Pasqui
1959
- Hercules Unchained as Iole, bride of Ercole
- Uncle Was a Vampire as Carla
- The Woman's Confidant as Maria Bonifati
- Poor Millionaires as Alice
- La cambiale as Odette Mercury
- The Surprises of Love as Marianna
1958
- Hercules as Iole, Daugher of Pelias
- He Thief, She Thief as Cesira De Angelis
- Totò in the Moon as Lidia
- La nipote Sabella as Lucia
- Dangerous Women as Tosca
- Love on the Riviera as Renata Morandi
- Young Husbands as Mara
- Toto in Paris as Juliette Marchand
- Quando gli angeli piangono as Marta
1957
- Guendalina as Francesca Redaelli, madre di Guendalina
- The Mighty Crusaders as Clorinda (as Silva Koscina)
- Engaged to Death as Lucia
- Female Three Times as Sonia
- The Innocent with Forty Children as Gina Lantois
- Oh! Sabella as Lucia
- Non sono più guaglione as Carolina
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