Category: Adriana Ambesi
Ambesi in a scene from Pasquale Festa Campanile’s La costanza della ragione (1964)
Adriana Ambesi, a graduate of Rome’s Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, was only active in the Italian film industry for seven years. She made her debut in 1963, playing a supporting character in Sansone contro i pirati, a conflation of elements from peplum and pirati films, directed pseudonymously by Tanio Boccia. Later that year,[1] Ambesi appeared under the direction of genre all-rounder Ferdinando Baldi in Sfida al re di Castiglia, a serie B approximation to reign and life of medieval Castilian king Pedro el Cruel (portrayed by Mark Damon).[2] Alternating between assorted filone fare (adventure, comedy, crime, horror, peplum, spy films) and Westerns for the remainder of her career,[3] Ambesi appeared in sixteen movies[4] until 1969, when she bade the silver screen farewell in Amando de Ossorio’s “Blind Dead” warm-up, Malenka.
Ambesi in Oeste Nevada Joe (Ignacio F. Iquino, 1965), literally “West Nevada Joe,” and in La grande notte di Ringo (Mario Maffei, 1966), “Ringo’s big night”
Frauen, die durch die Hölle gehen (Rudolf Zehetgruber, Gianfranco Parolini, Sidney W. Pink, 1966), “women who go through hell,” Tre pistole contro Cesare (Enzo Peri, 1967), “three pistols against Caesar”
Diecimila dollari per un massacro (Romolo Guerrieri, 1967), “$10,000 for a massacre,” Uno straniero a Paso Bravo (Salvatore Rosso, 1968), “a foreigner in Paso Bravo”
Notes
- ↑ She is credited but nowhere to be seen in Katarsis / Sfida al diavolo, an ill-conceived black-and-white horror flick with a troubled production history (Italian censura: August 10, 1963).
- ↑ Her role is tiny; she plays one of Pedro’s mistresses whose clothes are stolen by a dog while she’s bathing in a lake.
- ↑ With the exceptions of an uncredited excursion into the realm of socially conscious filmmaking—La costanza della ragione (1964), starring Catherine Deneuve in her first Italian movie, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile—and a minuscule, though credited, part in John Huston’s adaptation of the Book of Genesis, The Bible: In the Beginning … (1966), as one of Lot’s daughters.
- ↑ Possibly nineteen: three—Adolescenti al sole (Aldo Rossi, 1964), Fruits amers (Jacqueline Audry, 1967), and Vedove inconsolabili in cerca di … distrazioni (Bruno Gaburro, 1969)—remain to be confirmed.
Ambesi’s filmography: Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Archivio del Cinema Italiano On-Line di ANICA, Thrilling Forum
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