Annabella Incontrera

Italian film and television actress

Annabella Incontrera (11 June 1943 – 19 September 2004), sometimes credited as Pam Stevenson, was an Italian film and television actress.

Career

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

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

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

^ ^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.