Claudia Cardinale
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Claudia Cardinale is an Italian
Italian people
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 actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French. She was also an iconic sex symbol
Sex symbol
A sex symbol is a celebrity of either gender, typically an actor, musician, supermodel, teen idol, or sports star, noted for their sex appeal. The term was first used in the mid 1950s in relation to the popularity of certain Hollywood stars, especially Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte...

 of the 1960s.

Early life

Claudia Cardinale was born Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale in La Goulette
La Goulette
La Goulette is the port of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. The Kasbah fortress was built in 1535 by Charles I of Spain but was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1574...

, an Italian
Italy
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 neighborhood of Tunis
Tunis
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. Her mother, Yolande Greco, was born in Tunisia to Italian
Italy
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 (Sicilian) emigrants from Trapani
Trapani
Trapani is a city and comune on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the main gateway to the nearby Egadi Islands.-History:...

, Italy
Italy
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. Her father was an Italian
Italian people
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 (Sicilian
Sicilian people
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) railway worker, born in Gela
Gela
Gela is a town and comune in the province of Caltanissetta in the south of Sicily, Italy. The city is at about 84 kilometers distance from the city of Caltanissetta, on the Mediterranean Sea. The city has a larger population than the provincial capital, and ranks second in land area.Gela is an...

, Italy
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. Like many Italian Tunisians, her native languages were Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian Arabic
Tunisian Arabic is a Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language, spoken by some 11 million people. It is usually known by its own speakers as Derja, which means dialect, to distinguish it from Standard Arabic, or as Tunsi, which means Tunisian...

, French
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French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, and the Sicilian language
Sicilian language
Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects make up the Extreme-Southern Italian language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is...

 of her parents. She developed her skill in speaking Italian
Italian people
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 as a teenager, as she pursued her acting career.

Career

In 1957, Cardinale won the Italian embassy's 'Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia' contest. The contest included a trip to the Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

, bringing Cardinale to the attention of the Italian movie industry. Her feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

 debut was Goha
Goha
Goha is a French-Tunisian film of 1958. It was starred by Omar Sharif and it was the cinema debut of Claudia Cardinale. At the 1958 Cannes Film Festival it was awarded with the Jury Prize and it had been nominated for the Golden Palm.-Cast:...

 (1957), a French-Tunisian co-production. After attending the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film....

 of Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 for two months, she signed a seven-year contract with the Vides studios. In 1958, she had a role in the major international success I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street)
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Big Deal on Madonna Street is a 1958 Italian criminal-comedy film, directed by Mario Monicelli, and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Its original title translates as "the usual unknown persons", a journalistic and bureaucratic euphemism for "unidentified criminals" or...

. Her early career was largely managed by studio producer Franco Cristaldi
Franco Cristaldi
Franco Cristaldi was an Italian film producer, credited with producing more than 60 feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.-Career:...

, to whom Cardinale was married from 1966 until 1975.

Throughout the 1960s, she appeared in some of the most acclaimed Italian and European films of the period, including Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...

's Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers 1960) and Il Gattopardo
The Leopard (film)
The Leopard is a 1963 Italian film by director Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel of the same name.-Cast:* Burt Lancaster as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina* Claudia Cardinale as Angelica Sedara / Bertiana...

 (The Leopard, 1963), Philippe de Broca
Philippe de Broca
Philippe de Broca was a French film director.Born Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of a photographer of noble origins. de Broca was a cinephile from an early age, and he studied at the l'École technique de photographie et de cinématographie...

's Cartouche
Cartouche (film)
Cartouche is a 1962 French film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale.- Plot :In the 18th century, Louis Dominique Bourguignon is working with Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He hides out from Malichot and joins the army,...

 (1963), Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...

's Otto e mezzo
8½ is a 1963 Italian fantasy film directed by Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director...

 (8½ 1963), and Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...

's epic Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone for Paramount Pictures. It stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit, and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader with a...

 (1968). In her early Italian films, another actress dubbed
Dubbing (filmmaking)
Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers, who may be...

 for Cardinale, because her naturally deep voice (which later became one of the reasons of her success) contrasted with her feminine appearance. Not until 8½ was she allowed to dub her own dialogue.

Because Cardinale was not interested in leaving Europe for extended periods of time, she never made a real attempt to break into the American
United States
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 market. The list of her Hollywood films includes The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bungling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of the film of the same name. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers...

 (1963), Circus World
Circus World (film)
Circus World, also known as Samuel Bronston's Circus World, is a 1964 drama film made by the independent production company Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures...

 (1964); Blindfold (1965); and The Professionals (1966).

A photograph of Cardinale was featured in the original gatefold artwork to Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

's album Blonde on Blonde
Blonde on Blonde
Blonde on Blonde is American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's seventh studio album, released in May or June 1966 on Columbia Records and produced by Bob Johnston. Recording sessions commenced in New York in October 1965, with a plethora of backing musicians, including members of Dylan's live backing...

 (1966), but because it was used without Cardinale's permission, the photo was removed from the cover art in later pressings.

In Visconti's Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa
Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa is a 1965 Italian film directed by Luchino Visconti. It was released as Sandra Of A Thousand Delights in the USA and as Of These Thousand Pleasures in the UK.-Plot:...

 (known as Sandra in the United States and Of A Thousand Delights, 1965) she plays a Holocaust survivor who has an incest
Incest
Incest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is usually illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between: individuals of close "blood relationship"; members of the same household; step...

uous relationship with her brother. In Comencini's La storia (from Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia .-Biography:...

's novel), Cardinale plays a widow raising a son during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, and gave another well-received performance. Other memorable performances include Valerio Zurlini
Valerio Zurlini
Valerio Zurlini was an Italian film director, stage director and screenwriter.-Biography:During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party...

's Girl with a Suitcase
Girl with a Suitcase
Girl with a suitcase is a 1961 Italian romantic drama film by Italian Director Valerio Zurlini starring Claudia Cardinale as a naive nightclub singer who lives on the good will of others. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...

 and Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini
Mauro Bolognini was an Italian film director of literate sensibility, known for masterful handling of period subject matter.-Biography:Mauro Bolognini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany....

's Libera.

Cardinale has remained active through the decades. Her later films include Qui comincia l'avventura (1975), Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known as Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber...

 (1982), Un homme amoureux (1987), Mayrig
Mayrig
Mayrig is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil. The film's principal cast includes Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif...

 (1991), And now... Ladies and Gentlemen
And now... Ladies and Gentlemen
And now... Ladies and Gentlemen is a thriller film released in 2002. It is directed by Claude Lelouch and stars Jeremy Irons and French singer Patricia Kaas. Patricia Kaas also released a song with the same title on her 2002 album Piano Bar. Tracks from the album, which according the cover notes...

 (2002), and the critically acclaimed gay-themed Le fil (The String
The String
The String is a 2009 French film directed by Mehdi Ben Attia. It stars Claudia Cardinale. Notably, part of the film was shot in Tunisia, Cardinale's country of birth....

, 2010) playing a Tunisian mother with a tempestuous relationship with her French-educated gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

 son.

Cardinale has been honoured at nearly every major film festival. She was a tributee at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival
Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival was started in 1974 by Bill and Stella Pence, Tom Luddy and Jim Card in the town of Telluride, Colorado, United States. It is operated by the National Film Preserve....

 and was the guest of honour at the 47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival
47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival
The 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival was a film festival held in Antalya, Turkey which ran from October 9 to 14, 2010. Prizes were awarded in four competitions in the course of the festival, at which 191 films were shown at 12 venues across the city with the theme Cinema...

. She won the Golden Orange Best Actress Award for the movie Signora Enrica
Signora Enrica
Signora Enrica is a 2010 Italo-Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Ali İlhan, starring Claudia Cardinale as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student...

 (2010) from the Antalya Film Festival in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. She has been given lifetime achievement awards from festivals in Canada
Canada
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, France
France
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, Italy, Spain
Spain
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, Portugal
Portugal
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, Turkey, Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

, Russia
Russia
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, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

, Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

, Australia
Australia
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, the UK and US. Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

 readers, in a February 2011 online vote, deemed Cardinale the seventh most beautiful woman in film history.

Personal life

Claudia Cardinale was married to Italian film producer Franco Cristaldi
Franco Cristaldi
Franco Cristaldi was an Italian film producer, credited with producing more than 60 feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.-Career:...

 from 1966 until their divorce in 1975. She has lived with Pasquale Squitieri, an Italian film director, since 1975.

She has two children: Patrizio, who was born out of wedlock to a Frenchman when she was 17 and later adopted by her longtime companion Squitieri, and Claudia, whose biological father is Squitieri.

Cardinale is a political liberal who has supported feminist and gay rights causes over the years. She has frequently stated her pride in her Tunisian (she was raised speaking fluent Arabic) and Arab
Arab
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 roots - as evidenced by her book Ma Tunisie and her appearance as herself in the Tunisian film Un été à La Goulette ("A Summer in La Goulette").

She wrote an autobiography, Moi Claudia, Toi Claudia. In 2005, she also published a French-language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 book, Mes Etoiles, about her personal and professional relationships with many of her directors and co-stars through her nearly 50 years in show business.

Cardinale has been a regular attendee of the Academy Awards. She was awarded an honorary Golden Lion
Golden Lion
Il Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...

 at the 1993 Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

, and an honorary Golden Bear award at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival.

Cardinale has been a UNESCO
UNESCO
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 goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since 1999. She was a goodwill ambassador for the UNESCO World Water Day for 2006, supporting that year's theme of "Water and Culture" by declaring her support for Powerstock, a sustainable
Sustainable energy
Sustainable energy is the provision of energy that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Sustainable energy sources include all renewable energy sources, such as hydroelectricity, solar energy, wind energy, wave power, geothermal...

 electronic music festival that proposes a "water-consciousness" for youth culture and seeks to make sustainability an integral part of mainstream culture.

Filmography

  • I soliti ignoti (1958)
  • Goha
    Goha
    Goha is a French-Tunisian film of 1958. It was starred by Omar Sharif and it was the cinema debut of Claudia Cardinale. At the 1958 Cannes Film Festival it was awarded with the Jury Prize and it had been nominated for the Golden Palm.-Cast:...

     (1958)
  • Vento del sud
    Vento del sud
    Vento del sud also known as South Wind is a 1959 Italian mafia crime thriller film directed by Enzo Provenzale starring Claudia Cardinale and Renato Salvatori.-Plot:...

     (1959)
  • Three Strangers in Rome
    Three Strangers in Rome
    Tre straniere a Roma also known as Three Strangers in Rome is a 1958 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Claudio Gora starring Claudia Cardinale...

     (1959)
  • Un maledetto imbroglio
    Un maledetto imbroglio
    Un maledetto imbroglio also known as The Facts of Murder is a 1959 Italian crime film mystery directed by and starring Pietro Germi with Claudia Cardinale. The film is based on the novel by Carlo Emilio Gadda Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana...

     (1959)
  • Il magistrato (1959)
  • Upstairs and Downstairs
    Upstairs and Downstairs
    Upstairs and Downstairs is a 1959 British comedy drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Michael Craig, Anne Heywood, Mylène Demongeot, Claudia Cardinale, James Robertson Justice, Joan Sims, Joan Hickson and Sid James...

     (1959)
  • Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
    Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
    Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti is a 1960 Italian comedy crime film directed by Nanni Loy...

     (1960)
  • I Delfini
    I Delfini
    I Delfini also known as The Dauphins and Silver Spoon Set is a 1960 Italian and French drama film directed and written by Francesco Maselli. The film stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1960)
  • Il bell'Antonio
    Il bell'Antonio
    Il bell'Antonio is a 1960 Italian and French drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. The film is a based on a novel by Vitaliano Brancati and adapted for the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It stars Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale.-Plot summary:...

     (1960)
  • Napoleone ad Austerlitz (1960)
  • Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
  • Girl with a Suitcase
    Girl with a Suitcase
    Girl with a suitcase is a 1961 Italian romantic drama film by Italian Director Valerio Zurlini starring Claudia Cardinale as a naive nightclub singer who lives on the good will of others. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...

     (1961)
  • La Viaccia
    La Viaccia
    The Lovemakers is a 1961 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini based on a novel by Mario Pratesi. The film stars Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

     (1961)
  • Les Lions sont lâchés
    Les Lions sont lâchés
    Les Lions sont lâchés is a 1961 French comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil, and written by France Roche and Michel Audiard...

     (1961)
  • Cartouche
    Cartouche (film)
    Cartouche is a 1962 French film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale.- Plot :In the 18th century, Louis Dominique Bourguignon is working with Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He hides out from Malichot and joins the army,...

     (1961)
  • Senilità
    Senilità
    Senilità is a 1962 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale and Anthony Franciosa....

     (1962)
  • La ragazza di Bube
    La ragazza di Bube (film)
    La ragazza di Bube is a 1963 Italian crime film drama directed by Luigi Comencini and starring Claudia Cardinale and George Chakiris.In terms of plot the film is a relatively faithful adaptation of Carlo Cassola’s 1960 novel La ragazza di Bube; but its atmosphere is distinctly different, as the...

     (1963)
  • 8½ is a 1963 Italian fantasy film directed by Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director...

     (1963)
  • The Leopard
    The Leopard (film)
    The Leopard is a 1963 Italian film by director Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel of the same name.-Cast:* Burt Lancaster as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina* Claudia Cardinale as Angelica Sedara / Bertiana...

     (1963)
  • The Pink Panther
    The Pink Panther (1963 film)
    The Pink Panther is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, and Claudia Cardinale...

     (1963)
  • Gli indifferenti
    Gli indifferenti (film)
    Gli indifferenti is a 1964 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1964)
  • Circus World
    Circus World (film)
    Circus World, also known as Samuel Bronston's Circus World, is a 1964 drama film made by the independent production company Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures...

     (1964)
  • Il magnifico cornuto (1964)
  • Una rosa per tutti
    Una rosa per tutti
    Una rosa per tutti is a 1965 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1965)
  • Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa
    Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa
    Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa is a 1965 Italian film directed by Luchino Visconti. It was released as Sandra Of A Thousand Delights in the USA and as Of These Thousand Pleasures in the UK.-Plot:...

     (1965)
  • Blindfold (1965)
  • Le fate (1966)
  • The Professionals (1966)
  • Né onore né gloria
    Lost Command
    Lost Command is a 1966 war film directed by Mark Robson and filmed in Spain. The screenplay was written by Nelson Gidding, based on the 1960 novel The Centurions by Jean Lartéguy...

     (1966)
  • Piano piano, non t'agitare
    Piano piano, non t'agitare
    Piano piano, non t'agitare is a 1967 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1967)
  • Don't Make Waves
    Don't Make Waves
    Don't Make Waves is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sex farce which starred Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Dave Draper and Sharon Tate...

     (1967)
  • Ruba al prossimo tuo ...
    Ruba al prossimo tuo ...
    Ruba al prossimo tuo ... is a 1968 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1968)
  • I contrabbandieri del cielo
    I contrabbandieri del cielo
    I contrabbandieri del cielo is a 1968 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1968)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
    Once Upon a Time in the West
    Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone for Paramount Pictures. It stars Henry Fonda cast against type as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit, and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader with a...

     (1968)
  • Il giorno della civetta
    Il giorno della civetta (film)
    Il giorno della civetta is a 1968 Italian mafia crime thriller film directed by Damiano Damiani. Inspired by Leonardo Sciascia's novel with same title, it stars Claudia Cardinale and Franco Nero. It was released in USA in 1970. The film was entered into the 18th Berlin International Film...

     (1968)
  • Nell'anno del Signore
    Nell'anno del Signore
    Nell'anno del Signore is a 1969 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1969)
  • La tenda rossa (1969)
  • Certo certissimo ... anzi probabile
    Certo certissimo ... anzi probabile
    Certo certissimo ... anzi probabile is a 1969 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale and Catherine Spaak....

     (1969)
  • The Adventures of Gerard
    The Adventures of Gerard
    The Adventures of Gerard is a 1970 British adventure comedy film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach and Jack Hawkins...

     (1970)
  • Popsy Pop
    Popsy Pop
    Popsy Pop is a 1970 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale.-Cast:* Claudia Cardinale - Popsy Pop* Stanley Baker - Silva* Henri Charrière - Marcou* Marc Mazza - Tormenta* Georges Aminel - Father Lagba* Ginette Leclerc - Mrs. Irma...

     (1970)
  • Les Pétroleuses (The Legend of Frenchie King) (1971)
  • Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata (1971)

  • L'udienza
    L'udienza
    L'udienza is a 1971 Italian-French drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Enzo Jannacci - Amedeo* Claudia Cardinale - Aiche* Ugo Tognazzi - Aureliano Diaz...

     (1971)
  • Le pistolere
    Le pistolere
    Le pistolere is a 1971 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1971)
  • Il clan dei marsigliesi
    Il clan dei marsigliesi
    Il clan dei marsigliesi is a 1972 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1972)
  • Il giorno del furore
    Il giorno del furore
    Il giorno del furore is a 1973 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1973)
  • I guappi
    I guappi
    I guappi is a 1974 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1974)
  • Conversation Piece
    Conversation Piece (film)
    Conversation Piece is an award-winning 1974 film by Italian director Luchino Visconti.The film features an international cast including the American actor Burt Lancaster, the Austrian Helmut Berger and the Italians Silvana Mangano and Claudia Cardinale and the French actress Dominique Sanda in a...

     (1974) cameo as the professor's wife
  • Libera, amore mio (1975)
  • Qui comincia l'avventura
    Qui comincia l'avventura
    Qui comincia l'avventura is a 1975 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1975)
  • A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere
    A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere
    A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere is a 1975 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1975)
  • Il comune senso del pudore
    Il comune senso del pudore
    Il comune senso del pudore is a 1976 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1976)
  • Goodbye & Amen - L'uomo della CIA
    Goodbye & Amen - L'uomo della CIA
    Goodbye & Amen - L'uomo della CIA is a 1977 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale, Tony Musante and John Forsythe in the leading roles....

     (1977)
  • Il prefetto di ferro
    Il prefetto di ferro
    Il prefetto di ferro is a 1977 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1977)
  • Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
  • Corleone
    Corleone (film)
    Corleone is a 1978 Italian film also known as Father of the Godfather. It stars Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma and Tony Kendall. Gemma was awarded 1979 Best Actor at the Montréal World Film Festival for his role....

     (1978)
  • L'arma
    L'arma
    L'arma is a 1978 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1978)
  • Amici e nemici (1979)
  • Escape to Athena
    Escape to Athena
    Escape to Athena is a British adventure war film released in 1979, directed by George Pan Cosmatos and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. The international cast included many well-known actors of the 1970s, including Roger Moore, Telly Savalas and Elliott Gould.The film is set during the...

     (1979)
  • Si salvi chi vuole
    Si salvi chi vuole
    Si salvi chi vuole is a 1980 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1980)
  • La Salamandra (1981)
  • Il regalo (1981)
  • Fitzcarraldo
    Fitzcarraldo
    Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known as Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber...

     (1981)
  • La pelle (1981)
  • Trail of the Pink Panther
    Trail of the Pink Panther
    Trail of the Pink Panther is a 1982 comedy film starring Peter Sellers. It was the seventh film in the Pink Panther series, and the last in which Peter Sellers starred as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, although Sellers died before production began and the film thus contains no original material...

     (1982) (footage from first film)
  • Una cascata d'oro
    Una cascata d'oro
    Una cascata d'oro is a 1983 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1983)
  • Claretta
    Claretta
    Claretta is a 1984 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1984)
  • Enrico IV
    Henry IV (film)
    Henry IV is a 1984 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio. It is based on the Luigi Pirandello play of the same name. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Henry IV* Claudia Cardinale - Matilda...

     (1984)
  • La donna delle meraviglie
    La donna delle meraviglie
    La donna delle meraviglie is a 1985 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1985)
  • Un uomo innamorato (1986)
  • La storia (1986)
  • Blu elettrico
    Blu elettrico
    Blu elettrico is a 1988 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1988)
  • Atto di dolore
    Atto di dolore
    Atto di dolore is a 1990 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1990)
  • Mayrig
    Mayrig
    Mayrig is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil. The film's principal cast includes Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif...

     (1991)
  • 588, rue Paradis
    588, rue Paradis
    588, rue Paradis is a 1992 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1992)
  • Son of the Pink Panther
    Son of the Pink Panther
    Son of the Pink Panther is the ninth entry in the 30-year-old The Pink Panther film series. Directed by Blake Edwards, it stars Roberto Benigni as Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son. Also in this film are Panther regulars Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk and Graham Stark and a star of the original 1963...

     (1993)
  • Nostromo
    Nostromo (film)
    Nostromo is a 1996 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1996)
  • Li chiamarono briganti! (1999)
  • Luchino Visconti
    Luchino Visconti (1999 film)
    Luchino Visconti is a 1999 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (1999)
  • And now... Ladies and Gentlemen
    And now... Ladies and Gentlemen
    And now... Ladies and Gentlemen is a thriller film released in 2002. It is directed by Claude Lelouch and stars Jeremy Irons and French singer Patricia Kaas. Patricia Kaas also released a song with the same title on her 2002 album Piano Bar. Tracks from the album, which according the cover notes...

     (2002)
  • Marcello: A Sweet Life
    Marcello: A Sweet Life
    Marcello: A Sweet Life is a 2006 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (2006)
  • Cherche Fiance Tous Frais Payes
    Cherche Fiance Tous Frais Payes
    Cherche Fiance Tous Frais Payes is a 2007 French film. It stars Claudia Cardinale....

     (2007)
  • Le Fil (2009)
  • Signora Enrica
    Signora Enrica
    Signora Enrica is a 2010 Italo-Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Ali İlhan, starring Claudia Cardinale as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student...

     (2010)
  • Un balcon sur la mer (2010)
  • Gebo et l'Ombre
    Gebo et l'Ombre
    Gebo et l'Ombre is an upcoming Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira currently in production. It is based on a play by Raul Brandão.-Cast:* Claudia Cardinale as Doroteia* Jeanne Moreau as Candidinha...

     (2012)


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