Favourite Exploitation Actors

1. Adolfo Celi

Sicilian born actor/writer/director was very popular with European audiences, but largely unknown to the west apart from his portrayal of the villainous SPECTRE agent "Emilio Largo" in the spectacular James Bond film Thunderball (1965). However, due to his heavy accent, Celi's voice was dubbed by ...

2. Aldo Sambrell

Actor | Per qualche dollaro in più

Prolific, versatile, and ubiquitous character actor Aldo Sambrell was featured in over 140 international motion pictures in a remarkably long, varied, and illustrious career that spanned four and a half decades. Swarthy and burly, usually sporting a thick mustache, and often projecting an air of ...

3. Ann Smyrner

Actress | Reptilicus

Ann Smyrner was born on November 3, 1934 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Reptilicus (1961), Kommissar X - Drei gelbe Katzen (1966) and Holiday in St. Tropez (1964). She died on August 29, 2016 in Benalmadena, Andalusia, Spain.

4. Anna Gaël

Actress | Nana

Anna Gaël was born on September 27, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Nana (1970), The Love Factor (1969) and Mademoiselle de la Ferté (1965). She was married to Alexander Thynne and Gilbert Pineau. She died on September 17, 2022 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

5. Barbara Bach

Actress | The Spy Who Loved Me

Barbara Goldbach was born to Howard and Marjorie Goldbach in Queens, New York. Her father was a policeman. She met her first husband Augusto Gregorini in New York while she worked as a model and he was visiting from Italy for business tourism in 1966. Barbara followed him to Italy to be with him ...

6. Barbara Bouchet

Actress | Gangs of New York

Stunningly beautiful and charismatic blonde Barbara Bouchet was born Barbel Goutscherola on August 15th, 1943 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, known as Reichenberg, during the German occupation. Her father, Fritz, was a war photographer.

Her family was forced to leave the country when Barbara was a ...

7. Barbara Leigh

Actress | Terminal Island

Barbara Leigh was born on November 16, 1946 in Ringgold, Georgia, USA. She is an actress, known for Terminal Island (1973), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) and The Incredible Hulk (1978). She was previously married to Joe Lewis.

8. Barbara Steele

Actress | La maschera del demonio

The most beautiful star of the greatest horror masterpiece of Italian film, Black Sunday (1960): Barbara Steele was born on December 29, 1937 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. Barbara is loved by her fans for her talent, intelligence, and a dark mysterious beauty that is unique; her face epitomizes...

9. Brigitte Lahaie

Actress | Une dernière fois

Brigitte Lahaie was born on October 12, 1955 in Tourcoing, Nord, France. Her father was a banker and her mother was an accountant. Brigitte also has two brothers and a sister. Lahaie moved with her sister to Paris, France in 1975 and worked in a shoe store prior to getting her first film job ...

10. Brigitte Skay

Actress | Zeta One

Brigitte Skay was born on July 18, 1940 in Mannheim, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Love Factor (1969), Isabella, Duchess of the Devils (1969) and A Bay of Blood (1971). She died on November 19, 2012 in Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

11. Candy Darling

Actress | Women in Revolt

Candy Darling was born on November 24, 1944 in Long Island, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Women in Revolt (1971), The Death of Maria Malibran (1972) and Flesh (1968). She died on March 21, 1974 in New York City, New York, USA.

12. Caroline Munro

Actress | The Spy Who Loved Me

Leggy, brunette-maned pin-up actress Caroline Munro was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Roman Catholic convent school. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a "Face of the Year" competition for the British ...

13. Charles Napier

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

Charles Napier was born in the tiny community of Mt. Union, near Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, to Linus Pitts Napier, a tobacco farmer and postman, and his wife, Sara, on April 12, 1936. He attended public school in Scottsville. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the Army in 1954. ...

14. Chelo Alonso

Actress | Maciste nella valle dei Re

If you remember those sword and sandal spectacles that became the rage of Italian cinema during the late 1950s and early 1960s, then you will certainly recall this torrid brunet bombshell. Invariably cast as the ambitiously evil queen or undulating dancer/temptress whose soul mission was to ...

15. Christina Lindberg

Actress | Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô

Gorgeous and voluptuous brunette beauty Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg was born on December 6, 1950, in Gothenburg, Sweden, to a working-class family, with one sister and two brothers.

When she was a teenager, she lived in the isle of Hisingen, At high-school, she studied Latin and planned on ...

16. Claudia Jennings

Actress | The Unholy Rollers

Born Mary Eileen "Mimi" Chesterton (nicknamed Mimi by her friends and family) in St. Paul, Minnesota, titian beauty Claudia Jennings was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1966, she moved to Evanston, Illinois, the first suburb north of Chicago just south of the Wisconsin state line, where she ...

17. Connie Chan

Actress | Jin ding you long gou hun ling

Connie Chan was born on December 10, 1947 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, Republic of China. She is an actress and assistant director, known for The Golden Cup, the Wandering Dragon and the Decree to Kill (1966), Kun Lun san sha shou (1967) and Yu nu jian (1969). She was previously married to Jimmy Yeung.

18. Corinne Cléry

Actress | Moonraker

Corinne Cléry was born on March 23, 1950 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Moonraker (1979), The Story of O (1975) and Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983).

19. Dagmar Lassander

Actress | Shark: Rosso nell'oceano

Dagmar Lassander was born on June 16, 1943 in Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress, known for Devil Fish (1984), Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970) and I racconti fantastici di Edgar Allan Poe (1979).

20. Diana Lorys

Actress | O.K. Yevtushenko

Diana Lorys was born on October 20, 1940 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for O.K. Yevtushenko (1967), Proceso a Jesús (1974) and Residencia para espías (1968).

21. Dominique Boschero

Actress | ...e la donna creò l'uomo

Dominique Boschero was born on April 27, 1937 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. She is an actress, known for Full Hearts and Empty Pockets (1964), Faccia di spia (1975) and Secret Agent Fireball (1965).

22. Dyanne Thorne

Actress | Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

American actress and performer Dyanne Thorne began her career in show business as a band vocalist and New York stage actress. Before breaking onto the silver screen, she was popular as a comedic sketch artist/talking foil. Comedy albums, with Allen & Rossi, Vaughn Meader and Loman & Barkley earned ...

23. Edwige Fenech

Actress | Hostel: Part II

Edwige Fenech was born Edwige Sfenek on December 24, 1948, in Bone, Constantine, France, to a Maltese father and an Italian mother. She began her show-business career as a participant in beauty contests (she won the title of "Miss Mannequin de la Cote d'Azur" at age 16 and even won a Miss France ...

24. Eric Falk

Actor | Los violadores

Eric Falk is known for Mad Foxes (1981), Blue Rita (1977) and Caged Women (1980).

25. Erika Blanc

Actress | Cuore sacro

Erika Blanc was born on July 23, 1942 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. She is an actress, known for Sacred Heart (2005), Espionage in Lisbon (1965) and A Man for Emmanuelle (1969). She was previously married to Bruno Gaburro.

26. Fabio Testi

Actor | Letters to Juliet

From 1955, Fabio Testi's home town Peschiera del Garda was also home to Bertolazzi Film, a motion picture studio which specialised in the production of colourful pirate movies. Lake Garda was merrily used as the ersatz Caribbean. At Bertolazzi, young Fabio began his career first as an extra, then ...

27. Femi Benussi

Actress | Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero

Femi Benussi was born on March 4, 1945 in Rovigno, Istria, Italy [now Rovinj, Istria, Croatia]. She is an actress, known for Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero (1972), Bloody Pit of Horror (1965) and La commessa (1975).

28. Florinda Bolkan

Actress | Cari genitori

A sensual, versatile legend of arthouse and grindhouse Italian cinema, Florinda Bolkan was born Florinda Soares Bulcão in Uruburetama, Ceará, Brazil, as the youngest of three children from a Brazilian father and an Indios mother. Her father, diplomat José Pedro Soares Bulcão, died when she was 14, ...

29. Francine York

Actress | The Family Man

Francine York was born in the small mining town of Aurora, Minnesota to her parents, Frank and Sophie Yerich. When Francine was five, her family (including her younger sister, Deanne) moved to Cleveland, where she began to write short stories and take an interest in acting. At age nine, Francine ...

30. Gabriele Tinti

Actor | Endgame - Bronx lotta finale

Gabriele Tinti was born on August 22, 1932 in Molinella, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and Le sette spade del vendicatore (1962). He was married to Laura Gemser and Norma Bengell. He died on November 12, 1991 ...

31. George Eastman

Actor | I nuovi barbari

Born Luigi Montefiori in 1942 near Genoa, Italy, the future actor provided artwork for various advertising agencies in Genoa before moving to Rome in 1966. Though he intended to further his art career, he became involved with a crowd of film people who urged him to put his good looks to advantage ...

32. George 'Buck' Flower

Actor | Back to the Future

There aren't many actors who can claim that they appeared in everything from innocuous family features to sexy soft-core smut to popular television programs to various horror, science fiction, and exploitation movies as well as worked behind-the-scenes on a slew of films in assorted production ...

33. Ajita Wilson

Actress | Orinoco: Prigioniere del sesso

Ajita Wilson was a transsexual actress who started out as an entertainer in the red-light district of New York. Wilson had sex reassignment surgery in the mid-1970s. After the operation she started appearing in adult films in New York. Then she was discovered by a European hardcore film producer ...

Born George Wilson

34. Luigi Bonos

Actor | The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Luigi Bonos was born on February 22, 1910 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), I due gattoni a nove code... e mezza ad Amsterdam (1972) and The King's Whore (1990). He was married to Antonella Steni. He died on May 26, 2004 in Rome, Italy.

Gigi Bonos

35. Gigi Proietti

Actor | La Tosca

Gigi Proietti was born on November 2, 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for La Tosca (1973), Febbre da cavallo - La mandrakata (2002) and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978). He died on November 2, 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

36. Gino Pernice

Actor | Django

Gino Pernice was born on May 6, 1927 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was an actor, known for Django (1966), Il soldato di ventura (1976) and D'Artagnan (1969). He died on April 25, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

37. Giovanna Ralli

Actress | C'eravamo tanto amati

Giovanna Ralli was born on January 2, 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress and writer, known for We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), The Mercenary (1968) and A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State (1971). She was previously married to Ettore Boschi.

38. Gloria Guida

Actress | Blue Jeans

Lovely and shapely blonde bombshell Gloria Guida was born into a family of Emilia-Romagna origin on November 19, 1955 in Merano, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy. Guida moved with her family to Bologna when she was a child. Gloria started out in the entertainment business as a singer at her father's ...

39. Gordon Mitchell

Actor | Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi

Tall, massively built, imposing-looking blond Gordon Mitchell (early on dubbed the "The Bronze Giant") was one of those perfectly developed bodybuilders who jumped on the Steve Reeves bandwagon and hightailed it to Italy to seek movie stardom as a Herculean strongman. Born Charles Allen Pendleton ...

40. Henry Silva

Actor | The Manchurian Candidate

Henry Silva was born on September 23, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He quit public school to attend drama classes at age 13, supporting himself as a dishwasher in a Manhattan hotel. By 1955, Silva had moved up from dishwasher to waiter, and felt ready to audition for the Actors Studio. He was one of ...

41. Herbert Fux

Actor | The Three Musketeers

Herbert Fux was born on March 25, 1927 in Hallein, Salzburg, Austria. He was an actor and writer, known for The Three Musketeers (1993), Stockinger (1996) and Der Bergdoktor (1992). He was married to Edith Fux. He died on March 13, 2007 in Zurich, Switzerland.

42. Horst Frank

Actor | Albino

The blond, steely-eyed bad guy of European westerns and potboilers was born in Lübeck, Germany, the son of a porcelain painter. Horst Frank financed his acting studies by working part-time as a babysitter and night watchman. He actually failed his final exams at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, but ...

43. Ingrid Steeger

Actress | Bettkarriere

Ingrid Steeger was the third child of Kurt and Käthe Stengert, who already had son Udo and daughter Jutta. After school Ingrid worked as a secretary when she was discovered by photographer Frank Quade. Soon pinup photos of her appeared in numerous men's magazines, especially "SEXY", where even ...

44. Isabel Sarli

Actress | Furia infernal

Isabel Sarli was discovered by filmmaker Armando Bo and became the star of his films, starting with El trueno entre las hojas (1957) in 1956. Her nude scenes in this drama --a first in Argentinian cinema-- and their subsequent soft-porn movies were highly criticized and condemned in Argentina. In ...

45. Jack Palance

Actor | City Slickers

Jack Palance quite often exemplified evil incarnate on film, portraying some of the most intensely feral villains witnessed in 1950s westerns and melodrama. Enhanced by his tall, powerful build, icy voice, and piercing eyes, he earned two "Best Supporting Actor" nominations early in his career. It ...

46. John Richardson

Actor | One Million Years B.C.

Classically handsome John Richardson began his career with small roles in British movies at the end of the 1950s. His first role of note was opposite Barbara Steele in the gothic horror classic Black Sunday (1960), directed by Mario Bava. His massive success was Don Chaffey's One Million Years B.C....

47. John Saxon

Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street

John Saxon appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on television in a more-than half-century-long career that has stretched over seven decades since he made his big screen debut in 1954 in uncredited small roles in It Should Happen to You (1954) and George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954). Born...

48. Karin Schubert

Actress | The Panther Squad

Karin Schubert was born on November 26, 1944 in Hamburg, Germany. She is an actress, known for The Panther Squad (1984).

49. Karine Gambier

Actress | Gefangene Frauen

Karine Gambier was born in France. She is known for Caged Women (1980).

50. Kitten Natividad

Actress | Another 48 Hrs.

Miss Nude Universe twice in a row, in 1970 and 1971, got her a topless non-speaking part in The New Centurions (1972). Started working as a maid for fellow nude model and actress Stella Stevens, went on tour as a strip-dancer for three years. Then she met talent-finder Russ Meyer, with whom she ...

51. Kitty Swan

Actress | Tarzán en la gruta del oro

Kitty Swan was born on May 25, 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress, known for Tarzan in the Golden Grotto (1969), Gungala, the Virgin of the Jungle (1967) and House of 1,000 Dolls (1967).

52. Klaus Kinski

Actor | Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht

Klaus Kinski was born as Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski in Zoppot, Free City of Danzig (now Sopot, Poland), to Susanne (Lutze), a nurse, and Bruno Nakszynski, a pharmacist. He grew up in Berlin, was drafted into the German army in 1944 and captured by British forces in Holland. After the war he began...

53. Laura Gemser

Actress | Emanuelle nera

Lovely, slender, and sensuous raven-haired knockout Laurette Marcia Gemser was born on October 5, 1950 in Java, Indonesia. In 1955 Gemser left Indonesia at age four and moved with her parents to the Netherlands. Laura grew up in the Dutch city of Utrecht and attended Mulo Regentesseschool high ...

54. Libertad Leblanc

Actress | Furia en la isla

Alabaster-skinned, platinum sex symbol, Isabel Sarli's eternal rival. In Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela she starred in films awash with nudity and lust during the sixties and early seventies. Also appeared in TV versions of Naná, Lola Montes and Lady Hamilton. Married-divorced to producer Leonardo...

55. Lilli Carati

Actress | Senza buccia

Lilli Carati was born on September 23, 1956 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Skin Deep (1979), A Lustful Mind (1986) and L'alcova (1985). She died on October 20, 2014 in Besano, Lombardy, Italy.

56. Lina Romay

Actress | La comtesse noire

Stunningly comely and slinky brunette Lina Romay rates highly as one of the boldest, most sensuous, and enticing actresses to have appeared with tremendous frequency in a large volume of European horror and exploitation features made from the early 1970s to the early 21st century.

Romay was born ...

57. Lionel Stander

Actor | The Transformers: The Movie

Lionel Stander, the movie character actor with the great gravelly voice, was born on January 11th, 1908 in The Bronx borough of New York City. Stander's acting career was derailed when he was blacklisted during the 1950s after being exposed as a Communist Party member during the House Un-American ...

58. Liz Renay

Actress | Desperate Living

Liz Renay's extraordinary life could almost be a movie script. Raised by fanatically religious parents, she ran away from home to win a Marilyn Monroe lookalike contest, and become a showgirl during World War II. She eventually became a "moll" to Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen, and when he was ...

59. Luciana Paluzzi

Actress | Thunderball

Luciana Paluzzi's an Italian actress, best known for playing SPECTRE assassin ,Fiona Volpe, in the fourth James Bond film, Thunderball.

In the film, Thunderball she had auditioned for the part of the lead Bond girl, Dominetta "Domino" Petacchi, but producers cast Claudine Auger, changing the Domino ...

60. Luigi Pistilli

Actor | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Luisi Pistilli's most notable stage successes were roles in "The Threepenny Opera", "St. Joan of the Stockyards" and a 1972 production, "Lulu". In 1991 he reprised his role in "Lulu" in the first professional collaboration with actress-singer Milva, his partner in previous plays as well as in a ...

61. Malisa Longo

Actress | Meng long guo jiang

Malisa Longo was introduced to the world of art in her native city of Venice very young, where she took her first steps as a poet and painter. It's 1968 and the city enjoyed one of its most experimental cultural upheaval that focused in the development of the Academy and in the Biennale.

In this ...

62. Mamie Van Doren

Actress | Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

Mamie Van Doren was born on February 6, 1931 in Rowena, South Dakota, USA. She is an actress, known for Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968), Teacher's Pet (1958) and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966). She has been married to Thomas Dixon since June 26, 1979. She was previously ...

63. Marie Liljedahl

Actress | De Sade 70

Stunningly gorgeous, sensuous, and voluptuous brunette knockout Marie Liljedahl briefly steamed up the screen in a handful of highly erotic soft-core exploitation features made in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Marie was born on February 15, 1950 in Stockholm, Sweden and originally planned on ...

64. Marilù Tolo

Actress | Matrimonio all'italiana

Marilù Tolo was born on January 16, 1943 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Marriage Italian Style (1964), Espionage in Lisbon (1965) and Eneide (1971).

65. Mario Adorf

Actor | Die Blechtrommel

Mario Adorf, a tell-tale name indeed. Mario calls to mind the actor's Italian roots (his father was a Calabrian surgeon) whereas Adorf reveals his German origins (his mother was a radiologist from the German region Eifel). As for the full name Mario Adorf it echoes to perfection the international ...

66. Mario Brega

Actor | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Mario Brega was born on March 25, 1923 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). He died on July 23, 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

67. Marisa Mell

Actress | Diabolik

Marisa Mell was born on February 24, 1939 in Graz, Austria. She was an actress, known for Danger: Diabolik (1968), The Great Swindle (1971) and Under Siege (1980). She was married to Henri Tucci. She died on May 16, 1992 in Vienna, Austria.

68. Martine Beswick

Actress | Thunderball

Brunette bombshell and second-string goddess Jamaican actress Martine Beswick(e) was born on September 26, 1941, to a British father and Portuguese/Jamaican mother in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Some brief modeling and pageant entering came to be before seeking a career in films. She allegedly once won ...

69. Meiko Kaji

Actress | Shurayukihime

Meiko Kaji was born on March 24, 1947 in the Kanda area of Tokyo, Japan. Following graduation from the Yakumo Academy High School in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan in 1965, Kaji first began acting in films in the mid-1960's under her real name of Masako Ôta. She was given the stage name Meiko Kaji by ...

70. Miki Sugimoto

Actress | Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa

Miki Sugimoto is almost inseparable from fellow 1970s Toei film star Reiko Ike. Both stared in numerous "sukeban" films throughout the 1970s and helped build a generation of "Toei porn".

A fashion model and star of "Go Go Girl in All Night Fuji" (a Japanese TV program), she made her film debut in "...

71. Nadia Cassini

Actress | Pulp

Nadia Cassini was born on January 2, 1949 in Woodstock, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Pulp (1972), Miracoloni (1981) and Starcrash (1978).

72. Nicoletta Machiavelli

Actress | Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?

Full name - Nicholetta Rangoni Machiavelli. The first role in the movie - Domenikangela Piras in the film of Luigi Zampa "The Question of Honor" (1965). In 1969, she was nominated for the German Academy Award as the best actress in the film "How Much Does a Man Need?" / Scarabea - wieviel Erde ...

73. Nieves Navarro

Actress | La morte cammina con i tacchi alti

Nieves Navarro was born on November 10, 1938 in Almería, Andalucía, Spain. She is an actress, known for Death Walks on High Heels (1971), Death Walks at Midnight (1972) and The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970). She was previously married to Luciano Ercoli.

74. Olivia Pascal

Actress | Griechische Feigen

Olivia Pascal was born on May 26, 1957 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress and publicist, known for The Fruit Is Ripe (1977), Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza (1983) and The Joy of Flying (1977). She has been married to Peter Kanitz since 2009.

75. Pam Grier

Actress | Jackie Brown

Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s. Her career started in 1971, when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched ...

76. Paul Naschy

Actor | El retorno del hombre lobo

Paul Naschy reigns supreme as the true king of Spanish horror cinema. He was born Jacinto Molina Alvarez on September 6, 1934, in Madrid, Spain. His father ran a successful fur business. Naschy grew up during the Spanish Civil War, and sought escape from the real-life horrors around him in ...

77. Al Cliver

Actor | Endgame - Bronx lotta finale

Al Cliver was born on July 16, 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt. He is an actor, known for Endgame - Bronx lotta finale (1983), Zombie (1979) and Laure (1976). He is married to Brenda Griffin.

Real name Pierluigi Conti

78. Pilar Velázquez

Actress | Juego sucio en Panamá

Pilar Velázquez was born on February 13, 1946 in Madrid, Spain. She is an actress, known for Ace of Hearts (1975), Al salir de clase (1997) and Los chicos con las chicas (1967).

79. Ray Lovelock

Actor | Fiddler on the Roof

Handsome, charming, and versatile actor Ray Lovelock was born on June 19, 1950 in Rome, Italy to an Italian mother and English father. Lovelock's father was an allied British soldier who in 1944 liberated Italy from a fascist regime. Ray's father met and eventually married his mother while ...

80. Reb Brown

Actor | Space Mutiny

Reb Brown was born on April 29, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Space Mutiny (1988), Uncommon Valor (1983) and Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983). He has been married to Cisse Cameron since September 8, 1979.

81. Regina Carrol

Actress | Satan's Sadists

The buxom, lively and attractive blonde bombshell named Regina Carrol was a dancer, singer and actress who achieved her greatest enduring cult popularity by appearing in a handful of entertainingly trashy drive-in exploitation feature films directed by her filmmaker husband Al Adamson. She was born...

82. Reiko Ike

Actress | Yasagure anego den: Sôkatsu rinchi

Reiko Ike was still in her late teens when she was "discovered" by Japan's Toei Studios (stories of her "discovery" are inconsistent, ranging from being scouted in a nightclub to being spotted as a model). Along with Miki Sugimoto she was Toei's top sex star throughout the 1970s, and the focus of ...

83. Rosalba Neri

Actress | Esther and the King

She won a beauty pageant and attended il Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (The Center for Experimental Cinematography). In 1956, she received an offer to go to Hollywood and attend the Actor's Studio but didn't take the offer for undisclosed reasons.

She began her film career at the age of 15 ...

84. Rosanna Schiaffino

Actress | La mandragola

Rosanna Schiaffino was born on November 25, 1939 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. She was an actress, known for La mandragola (1965), The Miracle of the Wolves (1961) and Romulus and the Sabines (1961). She was married to Giorgio Enrico Falck and Alfredo Bini. She died on October 17, 2009 in Milan, ...

85. Santo

Actor | Santo vs. la hija de Frankestein

Legendary masked Mexican wrestler / actor who achieved icon status via his highly colorful wrestling career and starring appearances in nearly 60 motion pictures. Born Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta on September 23rd, 1917 in Hidalgo, Mexico, he was the fifth of seven children and the family moved to Mexico...

86. Sabrina Siani

Actress | Il trono di fuoco

Sexy and shapely blonde Sabrina Siani was born Sabrina Seggiani in 1963 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Siani first started acting in films as a teenager in 1979. Sabrina was frequently cast in either cannibal exploitation fare or sword and sorcery fantasy adventures. Among the notable cult cinema directors...

87. Silvia Dionisio

Actress | Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore

Silvia Dionisio was born on September 28, 1951 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She is an actress, known for Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976), I racconti fantastici di Edgar Allan Poe (1979) and Long Live Robin Hood (1971). She has been married to Roberto Mazzarella since 1983. They have one child. She...

88. Soledad Miranda

Actress | Eugénie

Soledad Miranda was a Spanish actress who appeared in many films in the 1960s. Her remarkable beauty and her tragic untimely death make her story the stuff of legend. She was born on July 9, 1943 in Seville, Spain. She started her career when only eight years old as a flamenco dancer and singer. ...

89. Sybil Danning

Actress | Battle Beyond the Stars

Statuesque 5'7" blonde beauty Sybil Danning reigns supreme as one of the sexiest, most dynamic, and commanding actresses to achieve cult B-movie queen status. Born in Austria as daughter of US Army major and Austrian mother she grew up on army bases in New Jersey, Maryland and Sacramento, CA.. ...

90. Sylva Koscina

Actress | Le fatiche di Ercole

Sylva Koscina was born on August 22, 1933 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Zagreb, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Hercules (1958), Hornets' Nest (1970) and Judex (1963). She was married to Raimondo Castelli. She died on December 26, 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

91. Sylvia Kristel

Actress | The Concorde... Airport '79

Sylvia Kristel was born on September 28, 1952 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She first came to international attention in the early 1970s with Emmanuelle (1974) for director Just Jaeckin. Then two more sequels followed in which she also starred. Included in her credits are a long list of European films ...

92. Tomas Milian

Actor | Traffic

Tomas Milian, an American actor born in Cuba; was trained at the Actors Studio. He appeared in a few plays on Broadway, as well as in a show by Jean Cocteau in Spoleto. Mauro Bolognini noticed him and that was the starting point of a rich cinematographic career in Italy, where he played in all ...

93. Tura Satana

Actress | Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Tura Satana started exotic dancing when she was only 13 years old. She integrated acrobatics, humor, and sensual beauty to her dancing art form. As a dancer, she started doing guest appearances in films such as Our Man Flint (1966) and Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963) and made several films ...

94. Udo Kier

Actor | Hunters

Beginning his life with the same flair for the dramatic that would come to define his career, Udo Kier was born in Köln, Germany near the end of the 2nd world war. The hospital was bombed and buried Kier and his mother in the rubble. Both survived, and Kier would later move to London as a young ...

95. Ursula Buchfellner

Actress | El caníbal

Ursula Buchfellner was born on June 8, 1961 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany [now Germany]. She is an actress, known for Devil Hunter (1980), Hellhole Women (1981) and Linda (1981).

96. Uschi Digard

Actress | Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens

Uschi Digard was born in Saltsjö-Duvnäs, near Stockholm, Sweden. At 16 she left home, traveled to Paris and spent a year there and then in Italy before journeying further to England. She returned to her native Sweden but finally settled in the United States in 1967. Working as a translator for the ...

97. Uschi Mood

Actress | Liebe durch die Hintertür

Uschi Mood is known for Naughty Roommates (1969), The New Life Style (Just to Be Love) (1968) and Otto ist auf Frauen scharf (1968).

98. Valerie Leon

Actress | The Spy Who Loved Me

Not just another tall, beautiful brunette, Valerie Leon had extensive experience in British theatre, television and films, before she became a fixture in the "Carry On" series, appearing in seven of them. In addition to comedy, she also excelled in horror films, playing a dual role in one of ...

99. William Berger

Actor | Hercules

William Berger was born on June 20, 1928 in Innsbruck, Austria. He was an actor, known for Hercules (1983), Keoma (1976) and Devil Fish (1984). He was married to Hanja Kochansky, Carol Lobravico and Dörte Völz-Mammarella. He died on October 2, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.