Gianna Maria Canale

Canale in I vampiri (1956)

Gianna Maria Canale (12 September 1927 – 13 February 2009) was an Italian film actress.

Biography

Canale was born in 1927 in Reggio Calabria. In 1947, at the Miss Italia beauty contest, won by Lucia Bosè, she placed second. Canale received publicity in many Italian magazines after this. Her looks were compared to those of Ava Gardner. Riccardo Freda offered her a role in a movie, and, after they fell in love, they got married in Brazil, where they shot two films. Canale however was not used to living in South America and they came back to Italy, where, often directed by her husband, she starred in many sword and sandal films, as well as Italian horror and adventure films. I vampiri was her last film with Freda. She retired from the movie industry in 1964 at age 37, and died in Sutri (VT) January 2009.

Filmography

• Black Eagle (Aquila nera, 1946)
• The Mysterious Rider (Il cavaliere misterioso, 1948)
• Guarany (1948)
• Dead Woman's Kiss (Il bacio di una morta, 1949)
• Totò Le Mokò (1949)
• O caçula do Barulho (1949)
• The Iron Swordsman (Il conte Ugolino, 1949)
• Son of d'Artagnan (Il figlio di d’Artagnan, 1950)
• Double Cross (Il tradimento, 1951)
• Go for Broke! (1951)
• Revenge of Black Eagle (La vendatta di aquila nera, 1951)
• See Naples and Die (Vedi Napoli e poi muori, 1951)
• La leggenda del Piave (1952)
• The Eternal Chain (L'eterna catena, 1952)
• Sins of Rome (Spartaco, 1953)
• The Man from Cairo (Dramma nella Kasbah, 1953)
• Alarm in Morocco (Alerte au sud, 1953)
• Theodora, Slave Empress (Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio, 1954)
• Madame du Barry (1954)
• The Shadow (1954)
• Napoleón (1955)
• Il coraggio (1955)
• Donne sole (1955)
• The Lebanese Mission (La châtelaine du Liban, 1956)
• Le schiave di Cartagine (1956)
• I Vampiri (1957)
• The Mighty Crusaders (film) (La Gerusalemme liberata, 1957)
• Pirate of the Half Moon (Il corsaro della mezzaluna, 1957)
• Hercules (Le fatiche di Ercole, 1958)
• The Silent Enemy (1958)
• The Whole Truth (1958)
• The Warrior and the Slave Girl (La rivolta dei gladiatore, 1958)
• Devil's Cavaliers (Il cavalieri del diavolo, 1959)
• Seven in the Sun (Gli aventurieri dei tropici, 1960)
• The Night They Killed Rasputin (Les Nuits de Raspoutine, 1960)
• Queen of the Pirates (Le venere dei pirati, 1960)
• Colossus and the Amazon Queen (La regina delle Amazzoni, 1960)
• Conqueror of the Orient (Il conquistatore dell'Oriente, 1960)
• The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961)
• Goliath and the Vampires (Maciste contro il vampiro, 1961)
• The Centurion (Il conquistatore di Corinto, 1961)
• The Slave (Il figlio di Spartacus, 1962)
• Le Chevalier de Pardaillan (1962)
• Tiger of the Seven Seas (La tigre dei sette mari, 1963)
• Il Boom (1963)
• The Adventures of Scaramouche (La máscara de Scaramouche, 1963)
• The Lion of St. Mark (Il leone di San Marco, 1963)
• Il treno del sabato (1964)
• The Avenger of Venice (Il ponte dei sospiri, 1964)

External links

• Gianna Maria Canale at the Internet Movie Database
• Gianna Maria Canale at MSN Movies