Bernina De Santis (21 October 1932 – 4 December 1985) was an Italian actress.
Life and career
Born in
Ronciglione, as a child De Santis won a beauty contest and at young age she started working for the advertising industry and on stage.
She made her film debut in 1954 in the melodrama ''Lacrime d'amore'' directed by
Pino Mercanti
Giuseppe Mercanti, best known as Pino Mercanti (16 February 1911 – 3 September 1986), was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Mercanti was a pioneer of the Sicilian cinema as the leading filmma ...
, who suggested her stage name.
She was very active in adventure films,
Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...
s,
peplum and
Eurospy films, sometimes credited as Dina De Saint.
She retired from acting in the late 1960s.
De Santis died in
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
on 4 December 1985, at the age of 53.
Selected filmography
* ''
Tears of Love
''Tears of Love'' () is a 1954 Italian Musical film, musical melodrama film directed by Pino Mercanti and starring Achille Togliani, Katina Ranieri and Otello Toso.Chiti & Poppi p.201
Cast
* Achille Togliani as Mario Benetti
* Katina Ranieri as ...
'' (1954)
* ''
Vendicata!'' (1955)
* ''
The Knight of the Black Sword'' (1956)
* ''
Venice, the Moon and You'' (1958)
* ''
Knight of 100 Faces'' (1960)
* ''
Queen of the Seas'' (1961)
* ''
The Secret of the Black Falcon'' (1961)
* ''
The Black Duke'' (1963)
* ''
Hercules and the Masked Rider
''Hercules and the Masked Rider'' (, also known as ''Goliath and the Masked Rider'') is a 1963 Italian peplum film written and directed by Piero Pierotti and starring Alan Steel and Mimmo Palmara. A crossover film, it is set in the seventeenth c ...
'' (1963)
* ''
Gentlemen of the Night'' (1964)
* ''
Hercules Against Rome'' (1964)
* ''
008: Operation Exterminate'' (1965)
* ''
Giant of the Evil Island'' (1965)
* ''
Tres dólares de plomo'' (1965)
* ''
Super Seven Calling Cairo'' (1965)
* ''
Last Man to Kill'' (1966)
* ''
Assault on the State Treasure'' (1967)
References
External links
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1932 births
1985 deaths
20th-century Italian actresses
Italian film actresses
Italian stage actresses
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