Italian media ANSA announced the death of actress Antonella Lualdi, who died on Thursday, August 10 at the age of 92. She began her career in 1949 and entered French homes for sixteen years as Lucia Cordier, the wife of Pierre Monde’s character in Les Cordier, the judge and policeman, then Commissioner Cordier.
First film at the age of 20
The daughter of an Italian engineer and a Lebanese woman of Greek origin, Antonella Lualdi, whose real name is Antonietta de Pascali, left Beirut at the beginning of World War II and settled in Milan with her family. A student in Florence, he successfully tried his hand at acting and modeling.
At the dawn of the 1950s, when she was not yet 20 years old, she made her film debut with three feature films: the musical Signorinella, Peplum Échec à Borgia and Pour l’amour from Heaven with Jean. Gabin.
Chabrol, Autant-Lara and Christian-Jacques
During this decade, who is already considered the equal of Gina Lollobrigida, emits several films with her mixed beauty and not least: Coat (1952), adaptation of the story of Nikolai Gogol by Alberto Latuada, sketch comedy “Lovely”. Creatures of Christian-Jacques (id.), Claude Hautin-Larra’s Le Rouge et le Noir (1954), which would bring her blessing, as well as Les Amoureux (1955), a work in which she responds to her husband. Franco Interlange.
Alongside him, he will also star in Non c’è amore più grande (1955), Our Most Beautiful Years (1956), Young Husbands (1957) or even Hit and Run (1958). Divided between Italy and France, Antonella Lualdi is very prolific, changing genres and each time giving her charming touch to productions that are sometimes quite dark, such as Beware of the Girls (1957), Match Against the Death (1959), Les Garçons (id.) , I’ll Go Spit on Your Graves (Id.), also Double Tour (Id.) by Claude Chabrol, a drama in which his character is killed off.
Vincent, Francois, Paul and others
In the 1960s, Antonella Lualdi shone in several adventure stories inspired by real historical facts (Mongols, Surkuf, Seven Sea Tigers and his Thunder Suite in the Indian Ocean) or mythological tales (Titans, 1962), but she is becoming rarer on the big screen.
In the following decade, he took the wave of “poliziotesco” (rather violent Italian thrillers) under the direction of directors who were experts in the field – Stelvio Masi, Gianni Crea, Roberto Gorimetti – and distinguished himself in several minis in France. Series like La Corde au cou or Les Eygletière. From this period we also remember his appearance with Claude Sauté in the excellent Vincent, François, Paul et al.
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From the 1980s, the actor began a real crossing of the desert, from which he would not come out until 1992, with the successful series Les Cordier, the judge and the policeman, then Commissioner Cordier. Her character is Lucia, the wife of the police commissioner, played by Pierre Mondi. His last film La bella società was released in 2010.
Source: Allocine
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