Annabella Incontrera
Annabella Incontrera (11 June 1943 – 19 September 2004), sometimes credited as Pam Stevenson, was an Italian film and television actress.
Career
Born in Milan, 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
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 reputed introduced to his colleagues as 'Signora Robinson'.[2]
The actress suffered from a grave form of osteoporosis for years, and was forced to use a wheelchair.[3][4]
Filmography
- 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
- Le calde notti di Don Giovanni (1971) - Maddalena
- I pirati dell'isola verde (1971) - Isabella
- Return of Sabata (1971) - Maggie, Saloon Girl
- Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) - Mirta Ricci
- Quando gli uomini armarono la clava e... con le donne fecero din don (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, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista (1975)
- Le braghe del padrone (1978) - Wife of Eugenio
- Estigma (1980) - (final film role)
References
- 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.
- Peter Evans, Fiona Barton (19 April 1998). "The Italian filmstar and her 25-year affair with a Labour Minister". Daily Mail. Retrieved 1 January 2012.