Annabella Incontrera
Annabella Incontrera (11 June 1943 – 19 September 2004), sometimes credited as Pam Stevenson, was an Italian film and television actress.
Career
[edit]Born in Milan, Italy, Incontrera attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia without finishing the course.[1] She made her film debut at 16, in Love Now, Pay Later (L'inferno addosso, 1959), and appeared in about 40 films, mostly in secondary roles.[1]
Personal life
[edit]In 1969, she married Guglielmo Biraghi, film critic for the newspaper Il Messaggero, but they divorced a few years later.[1]
She was romantically involved with the married British Labour Party politician Geoffrey Robinson, who in the 1970s was a businessman in charge of the Italian offshoot of British Leyland, and reputedly introduced to his colleagues as 'Signora Robinson'.[2]
The actress suffered from a severe form of osteoporosis for years, and was forced to use a wheelchair.[3]
Filmography
[edit]- Love Now, Pay Later (1959) – Micki
- Maciste contro il vampiro (1961) – Magda
- Una domenica d'estate (1962) – Lilly
- L'uomo che bruciò il suo cadavere (1964)
- Suicide Mission to Singapore (1966) – Evelyne
- The Devil in Love (1966, directed by Ettore Scola) – Lucrezia
- Poker with Pistols (1967, directed by Giuseppe Vari) – Lola
- The Ambushers (1967) – Slaygirl
- Quella carogna di Frank Mitraglia (1968) – Eva
- A suon di lupara (1968) – Lucienne
- The Assassination Bureau (1969) – Eleanora Spado
- Une fille nommée Amour (1969) – Cécile, la soeur
- Double Face (1969) – Liz
- A Bullet for Sandoval (1969) – Carol Day
- La sfida dei MacKenna (1970) – Maggie
- Due ragazzi da marciapiede (1970) – Matilde
- Commando di spie (1970) – Madeleine
- Amore Formula 2 (1970) – Loreley
- Nights and Loves of Don Juan (1971) – Maddalena
- I pirati dell'isola verde (1971) – Isabella
- Return of Sabata (1971) – Maggie, Saloon Girl
- Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) – Mirta Ricci
- When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971) – Prehistoric woman (uncredited)
- Roma Bene (1971, directed by Carlo Lizzani) – La Lesbica
- Le belve (1971, episode Processo a porte chiuse) – Carmela Sparapaoli (segment "Processo a porte chiuse")
- The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972) – Sheila Heindricks
- So Sweet, So Dead (1972) – Franca Santangeli
- Sette scialli di seta gialla (1972) – Helga Schurn
- The Infamous Column (1972) – L'amante di Arconati
- L'illazione (1972, directed by Lelio Luttazzi)
- Il gatto di Brooklyn aspirante detective (1973) – Gravida De Porcaris
- The Voyage (1974, directed by Vittorio De Sica) – Simona
- Verginità (1974)
- Ciak, si muore (1974) – Lucia
- Paolo Barca, Schoolteacher and Weekend Nudist (1975)
- Le braghe del padrone (1978) – Wife of Eugenio
- Estigma (1980) – (final film role)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Le attrici. Gremese, 2003. ISBN 88-8440-214-X.
- ^ Bower, Tom (31 October 2001). "The Paymaster by Tom Bower (II): The Butterfly". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
- ^ "Scandalo rosa made in Italy per un sottosegretario di Blair". La Repubblica. 20 April 1998. Retrieved 1 January 2012.