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Alida Valli (1921–2006)

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Enigmatic, dark-haired foreign import Alida Valli was dubbed "The Next Garbo" but didn't live up to postwar expectations despite her cool, patrician beauty, remote allure and significant talent. Born in Pola, Italy (now Croatia), on May 3, 1921, the daughter of a Tridentine journalist and professor and an Istrian homemaker... See full bio »

Born:

Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger
in Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]

Died:

(age 84) in Rome, Lazio, Italy
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2002 Angel of Death
Doña Catalina
 
2000 Vino santo (TV movie)
Sveva
 
1999 Il dolce rumore della vita
Sofia's grandmother
 
1996 Fatal frames: Fotogrammi mortali
Countess Alessandra Mirafiori
 
1995 A Month by the Lake
Signora Fascioli
 
1993 Il lungo silenzio
Carla's Mother
 
1993 Delitti privati (TV mini-series)
Matilde Pierboni
– Episode #1.4 (1993) … Matilde Pierboni
– Episode #1.3 (1993) … Matilde Pierboni
– Episode #1.2 (1993) … Matilde Pierboni
– Episode #1.1 (1993) … Matilde Pierboni
 
1993 Bugie rosse
Caterina, Andrea's mother
 
1992 Una vita in gioco 2 (TV movie)
 
1991 Zitti e mosca
Clara
 
1990 Ritual of Love
Countess Verrani
 
1990 La bocca
Countess Bianca Rospigliosi
 
1988 À notre regrettable époux
Catarina
 
1987 Manuela's Loves
Bacha
 
1986 We the Living
Kira Argounova
 
1985 Segreti segreti
Gina
 
1983 Piccolo mondo antico (TV mini-series)
 
1983 Il malinteso (TV movie)
 
1983 Dramma d'amore (TV mini-series)
 
1982 Sogni mostruosamente proibiti
Madre di Marina
 
1981-1982 Quell'antico amore (TV mini-series)
Maria Teresa
– Episode #1.4 (1982) … Maria Teresa
– Episode #1.1 (1981) … Maria Teresa
 
1982 Aspern
Juliana Bartes
 
1981 La caduta degli angeli ribelli
Bettina
 
1981 Sezona mira u Parizu
 
1981 Illa: Punto d'osservazione (TV mini-series)
 
1981 La casa rossa (TV mini-series)
 
1980 Aquella casa en las afueras
Isabel
 
1980 Verso l'ora zero (TV movie)
Lady Tressilian
 
1980 L'eredità della Priora (TV mini-series)
Priora
– Episode #1.6 (1980) … Priora
– Episode #1.5 (1980) … Priora
– Episode #1.4 (1980) … Priora
– Episode #1.3 (1980) … Priora
– Episode #1.1 (1980) … Priora
 
1980 Inferno
Carol, the caretaker
 
1980 Puppenspiel mit toten Augen
 
1979 Luna
Giuseppe's Mother
 
1979 Suor Omicidi
Mother Superior
 
1979 Zoo zéro
Yvonne, la mère
 
1979 Licanthropus, il figlio della notte
 
1979 L'altro Simenon (TV series)
 
1979 The Bailiff of Greifensee
 
1978 Indagine su un delitto perfetto
Lady Clementine De Revere
 
1978 Les grandes conjurations: Le tumulte d'Amboise (TV movie)
Catherine de Médicis
 
1978 Porco mondo
 
1977 A Simple Heart
Mrs. Obin
 
1977 Suspiria
Miss Tanner
 
1977 Berlinguer: I Love You
Mrs. Cioni
 
1976 The Cassandra Crossing
Mrs. Chadwick
 
1976 The Game of Solitaire
Germaine
 
1976 1900
Signora Pioppi
 
1975 Cher Victor
Anne
 
1975 Flesh of the Orchid
La folle de la gare
 
1975 The House of Raoul
Elsa
 
1974 The Antichrist
Irene
 
1974 Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker
Héloïse
 
1974 Il consigliere imperiale (TV mini-series)
 
1974 Lola
Louise
 
1974 Lisa and the Devil
Countess
 
1973 Diario di un italiano
Olga
 
1972 Indian Summer
Marcella Abati - Vanina's mother
 
1972 L'occhio nel labirinto
Gerda
 
1972 Il lutto si addice ad Elettra (TV movie)
Christine Mannon
 
1970 The Spider's Stratagem
Draifa
 
1970 The Mushroom
Linda Benson
 
1967 Oedipus Rex
Merope
 
1965 Umorismo in nero
The Widow - segment 3 'La cornacchia'
 
1964 Dr. Kildare (TV series)
Luisa Brabante
– Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 3 (1964) … Luisa Brabante
– Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 2 (1964) … Luisa Brabante
– Rome Will Never Leave You: Part 1 (1964) … Luisa Brabante
 
1964 The Other Woman
Annabel
 
1964 Desencuentro (TV series)
 
1963 Combat! (TV series)
Marie
– Doughboy (1963) … Marie
 
1963 The Paper Man
La Italiana
 
1963 The Castilian
Reina Teresa
 
1963 Ophélia
Claudia Lesurf
 
1963 A la salida (short)
 
1962 Al otro lado de la ciudad
 
1962 Homage at Siesta Time
Constance Fischer
 
1962 Disorder
Carlo's Mother
 
1962 Las momias de Guanajuato (TV series)
 
1961 The Happy Thieves
Duchess Blanca
 
1961 The Long Absence
Thérèse Langlois
 
1961 Il caso Maurizius (TV mini-series)
 
1961 La fille du torrent
Livia Boissière
 
1960 Il peccato degli anni verdi
Elena's mother
 
1960 The Gigolo
Agathe
 
1960 Le dialogue des Carmélites
Mère Thérèse de Saint-Augustin
 
1960 Ragazza mia (TV mini-series)
 
1960 Eyes Without a Face
Louise
 
1959 Signé Arsène Lupin
Aurélia Valéano
 
1959 I figli di Medea (TV movie)
Medea / Alida Valli
 
1958 The Night Heaven Fell
Aunt Florentine
 
1958 This Angry Age
Claude
 
1957 La grande strada azzurra
Rosetta, la moglie
 
1957 Il grido
Irma
 
1957 L'amore più bello
Carolina
 
1954 Senso
La contessa Livia Serpieri
 
1954 La mano dello straniero
Roberta Gleukovitch
 
1953 Of Life and Love
Alida (segment "Alida Valli")
 
1953 Il mondo le condanna
Renata Giuntini
 
1953 The Lovers of Toledo
Doña Inés de Arévalo Blas
 
1951 Last Meeting
Lina Castelli
 
1951 Miracles Only Happen Once
Claudia
 
1950 Walk Softly, Stranger
Elaine Corelli (as Valli)
 
1950 The White Tower
Carla Alton (as Valli)
 
1949 The Third Man
Anna Schmidt (as Valli)
 
1948 The Miracle of the Bells
Olga Treskovna (as Valli)
 
1947 The Paradine Case
Mrs. Paradine (as Valli)
 
1946 Eugenie Grandet
Eugenia Grandet
 
1945 Il canto della vita
Giovanna
 
1945 Life Begins Anew
Patrizia Martini
 
1944 Circo equestre Za-bum
(segments "Gelosia", "Il postino" and "Galop finale al circo")
 
1943 Apparition
Andreina
 
1943 T'amerò sempre
Adriana
 
1943 Laugh Pagliacci
Giulia
 
1942 Stasera niente di nuovo
Maria
 
1942 Addio Kira!
Kira Argounova
 
1942 Noi vivi
Kira Argounova
 
1942 Two Orphans
Enrichetta
 
1942 Catene invisibili
Elena Silvagni
 
1941 The Secret Lover
Renata Croci
 
1941 Schoolgirl Diary
Anna Campolmi
 
1941 Luce nelle tenebre
Marina Ferri
 
1941 Piccolo mondo antico
Luisa Rigey Maironi
 
1940 La prima donna che passa
Gabrielle de Vervins
 
1940 Passione
Vanina Vanini
 
1940 I Was to Blame
Lauretta
 
1940 The Last Enemy
A friend of Anna
 
1940 Taverna rossa
Susanna Sormani
 
1940 Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut
 
1939 Assenza ingiustificata
Vera Fabbri
 
1939 Ball at the Castle
Greta Larsen
 
1939 Mille lire al mese
Magda
 
1938 La casa del peccato
La ragazza
 
1938 L'amor mio non muore...
Maria D'Alba
 
1938 L'ha fatto una signora
Maria Sardo
 
1937 Il feroce Saladino
Dora Florida/La bella Sulamita
 
1936 The Two Sergeants
Una commessa dell'emporio 'Au Bon Marché' (as Alida Altenburger)
 
1935 Three Cornered Hat
 
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1948 The Miracle of the Bells (performer: "Powrot")
 
1945 Life Begins Anew (performer: "Io t'ho incontrata a Napoli")
 
1942 Stasera niente di nuovo (performer: "Ma l'amore no")
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
2008 Come diventai Alida Valli (documentary) (biography)
 
Show ShowDirector (1 title)
1968 L'amore in tutte le sue espressioni (documentary)
 
Show ShowSelf (4 titles)
2001 L'amore probabilmente
Herself
 
1989 Du côté de chez Fred (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 20 November 1989 (1989) … Herself
 
1986 Hitchcock: il brividio del genio (TV movie)
Herself
 
1976 Bertolucci secondo il cinema (TV documentary)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (9 titles)
2010 Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (video documentary)
Herself
 
2008 Strictly Courtroom (TV documentary)
Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine (uncredited)
 
2008 Come diventai Alida Valli (documentary)
 
2007 The 79th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Herself - Memorial Tribute
 
2004 Shadowing the Third Man (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2001 Suspiria 25th Anniversary (video documentary)
Miss Tanner
 
1999 Luchino Visconti (documentary)
 
1988 Cinema Paradiso
La contessa Livia Serpieri (uncredited)
 
1953 C'era una volta Angelo Musco
 

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Alternate Names:

Alida Altenburger | Valli

Height:

5' 5" (1.65 m)
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Trivia:

Involved in an infamous drug, sex and murder scandal in 1954. See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini