The Italian actress Carla Calò has died. She acted in over a hundred films
The Sicilian actress Carla Calò has died.
She was born in Palermo, where she made her first experiences as a theater actress, after the war she made her debut in Rome with Pirandello's “Il berretto a sonagli”, directed by Luigi Squarzina, in Rome she began her career in the world of cinema, with Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia in a film from 1949 “Il falco rosso”. Also in Palermo she married Giorgio Mancuso from whom he had his son Salvatore.
Immediately afterwards she worked alongside Totò, always directed by the same director, he is in the cast of “Totò le Mokò”, it will be the beginning of a long list of films, over 100, to which are added her works on television, where she demonstrates her great versatility adapting to the most diverse interpretations in all cinematographic genres, from the Italian comedy to dramatic films, from peplum to the Spaghetti western, from the adventurous cinema to crime up to the sexy comedy.
In her long career, Calò worked with Giuliano Gemma, Virna Lisi, Cristopher Lee, Lex Barker, Anna Maria Pierangeli, Joseph Cotten, Steve Reeves and with fellow Italians, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Enzo Andronico and Nino Terzo .
CALO, Carla(aka Carol Brown)
Born: 9/21/1926, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Died: 12/29/2019, Forano, Lazio, Italy
Carla Calo’s westerns – actress:
Zorro at the Court of Spain – 1962 (Francisca Di Villaverde)
Bullets and the Flesh – 1964 (Aunt Peggy)
Blood at Sundown – 1966 (Rhonda Liston)
Seven Dollars to Kill – 1966 (Rosa/Rosita/Rosario)
The Tramplers – 1966 (Mrs. Temple Cordeen)
The Taste of Vengeance – 1968 (Mother Douglas)
Sting of the West – 1972