Sylva Koscina
Date of birth: 1933-08-22
Place of birth: Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Сильва Кошина, S. Koscina, Silva Koscina, Silvia Koscina, Sylvia Koscina, سیلوا کوشچینا
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.
Movie Credits
Hot Enough for June
1964-03-10
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionag
The Great Swindle
1971-03-06
A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play gam
Casanova & Co.
1977-03-01
While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-
Lisa and the Devil
1973-05-08
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelt
Deadlier Than the Male
1967-02-12
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do
That Man in Istanbul
1965-08-11
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the ki
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1968-02-29
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. T
Three Bites of the Apple
1967-05-24
A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but lov
The Swordsman of Siena
1962-10-19
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than ea
The Crimes of the Black Cat
1972-08-12
In Copenhagen, a blind pianist hunts the culprit in string of murders, each linked by the presence o
The Traffic Policeman
1960-11-16
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous
The Italian Connection
1972-09-02
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is frame
Ace
1981-04-09
Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much
Oh! Sabella
1957-08-29
Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immed
La nipote Sabella
1958-11-20
Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two
Una storia di notte
1964-01-01
Toto in Paris
1958-10-23
Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of thi
Made in Italy
1965-12-22
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Hercules Unchained
1959-02-14
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and lose
Hercules
1958-02-20
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and s
He Thief, She Thief
1958-03-12
Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in
I See Naked
1969-04-17
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see nake
Love on the Riviera
1958-11-27
It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigull
Cinderella '80
1984-02-16
A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible
Totò in the Moon
1958-11-28
Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep
Magic Touch
1983-10-27
Andrea, a forty-year old engineer, suddenly becomes unemployed while his wife France gets a promotio
Let's Talk About Women
1964-03-28
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian
Judex
1963-12-04
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmake
Witness to Murder
1974-04-20
The director of a school is surprised by a student when murdering someone. He must kill the only eye
La cambiale
1959-11-19
The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as
The Dictator's Guns
1965-06-18
An experienced skipper is hired to buy a boat from an American heiress in the Caribbean, but when th
The Railroad Man
1956-11-21
Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of h
The Iron Mask
1962-10-26
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical
This and That
1983-12-21
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He
Michael Strogoff
1956-12-14
When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern
A Lovely Way to Die
1968-04-19
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich
Hornets' Nest
1970-09-08
An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group o
The Woman's Confidant
1959-06-20
A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the
Female Three Times
1957-10-25
The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in
The Masseuses
1962-09-20
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in
So Sweet, So Dead
1972-07-18
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising
Girl's Apartment
1963-12-04
Tibere is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-
Siege of Syracuse
1960-03-17
Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power betw
Love in Four Dimensions
1964-03-21
Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love an
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
1960-12-13
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
Trapped by Fear
1960-11-04
Paul, a reporter and photographer, comes to the rescue of Laurent, his old army companion in Algeria
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1964-10-22
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy
Uncle Was a Vampire
1959-10-28
Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle, staying on as a bellboy when it's
The Four Truths
1962-12-21
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all
The Dove Must Not Fly
1970-03-11
An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert w
Dangerous Women
1958-11-26
Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is
Blessed Are the Rich
1972-08-30
Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, d
Funny Money
1966-03-09
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman p
Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
1970-12-20
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, ac
Guendalina
1957-03-14
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blu
The Fight for Rome
1968-12-17
A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha,
Le pillole di Ercole
1960-09-10
A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's w
Corpse for the Lady
1964-08-19
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovan
The Battle of Neretva
1969-10-07
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offen
Blood Feud
1961-03-11
An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969-04-03
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cop
The House of Exorcism
1975-04-02
A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly filmed
Sex of the Devil
1971-01-26
After a relaxing anniversary cruise, Andrea and his wife Barbara are dropped off in Istanbul, Turkey
Vertigo For A Killer
1970-08-05
Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss when he
Homo Eroticus
1971-09-14
Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (rega
Four Queens for an Ace
1966-10-05
Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad,
He and She
1969-09-28
Mysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman and a photographer, shot in strange modernist inte
The Mighty Crusaders
1957-12-23
The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, base
The Little Nuns
1963-08-29
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over thei
African Story
1971-10-21
After his top client, popular singer Rex Maynard, runs away to South Africa with his daughter, power
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
1971-02-25
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of
The Scapegoat
1963-08-23
Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tess
You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife
1971-10-29
Poor Millionaires
1959-05-02
After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young coup
The Protagonists
1968-06-07
An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sa
The Circular Triangle
1964-12-17
Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish fina
Johnny Banco
1967-08-10
A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
Die Nacht der vier Monde
1984-03-04
Psychological romance about a burglar and a paralyzed artist.
Mariti in pericolo
1960-11-24
Two men, business partners, fall in love with the same girl. Their wives react accordingly, but one
Sunday Lovers
1980-10-31
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA
Agent X-77 Orders to Kill
1966-01-01
A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-r
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966-02-16
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and
Ricky & Barabba
1992-12-19
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot
To Kill in Silence
1972-01-01
Valeria and Gianni are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they have t
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975-08-21
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard
Quando gli angeli piangono
1958-08-08
After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is marr
Love, the Italian Way
1960-12-22
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures
The Modification
1970-07-31
While on a train to Rome, Léon muses about his love life after leaving his wife.
La salamandre d'or
1962-12-31
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Cha
Copacabana Palace
1962-11-03
For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwi
Juliet of the Spirits
1965-10-22
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly
Love and Marriage
1964-10-16
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
Les Jambes en l'air
1971-05-13
Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who ru
My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure
1973-04-14
In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells dirty
Jessica
1962-04-19
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry fema
Money
1965-11-25
On the theme "money is the driving force that drives man to commit follies to conquer them", this fi
Il morbidone
1965-10-01
Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.
I piaceri dello scapolo
1960-03-30
Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
Nights of Boccaccio
1972-03-28
Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed
Rimini Rimini
1987-02-27
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort to
Thrilling
1965-10-21
An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
1969-02-21
The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga
Young Husbands
1958-03-13
In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and marri
The Innocent with Forty Children
1957-12-20
Jean-François Robignac, a teacher, arrives at a provincial college to teach literature to ninth-grad
Engaged to Death
1957-04-13
A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, s
The Double Bed
1965-08-06
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
Ravishing
1960-12-14
A womanizing pilot who is asked by a friend to intervene in one of the friend's romantic tangles. Th
Destination Fury
1961-07-23
Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many
Las correrías del Vizconde Arnau
1974-08-26
The actual Viscount Arnau wants to acquire the power and fame that had their ancestors. For this rea
Non sono più guaglione
1957-12-23
A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.
Are We Men or Corporals?
1955-08-26
These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, sufferi
Rampage
1963-10-09
In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash ov
The Author's Crime
1974-01-01
Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly marr
Genitori in blue-jeans
1960-02-10
Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
Italy's in Season
1967-01-01
This short film presents a look at Italy's popular tourist spots.
The Surprises of Love
1959-12-02
This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries
The Shortest Day
1963-02-14
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor