Carla Calò

Italian actress (1926–2019)

Carla Calò
Calò in the movie La cameriera (1974)
Born	(1926-09-21)21 September 1926 Palermo, Kingdom of Italy
Died	29 December 2019(2019-12-29) (aged 93) Forano, Rieti, Italy
Other names	Carrol Brown
Occupation	Actress

Carla Calò (21 September 1926 – 29 December 2019) was an Italian actress.

Life and career

Born in Palermo, Calò started her career on stage, notably starring in Luigi Squarzina's Il berretto a sonagli, and also being active in dialectal theatre and avanspettacolo.^[1]^[2] She made her film debut in 1949, in Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia's Il falco rosso.^[1] During the early part of her film career Calò played several main roles, then, from the second half of the 1950s, she became one of the most active character actresses in Italian cinema.^[1]^[2]^[3] She was sometimes credited as Carrol Brown.^[1]^[3]

Calò died in December 2019 at the age of 93.^[4]

Selected filmography

Il falco rosso (1949) - Marfa
Totò Le Mokò (1949) - Suleima
The Iron Swordsman (1949) - Haidée
The Fighting Men (1950) - Rosa
The Treasure of Bengal (1953) - Surama
La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi (1953) - Elena
Mystery of the Black Jungle (1954) - Sulima
La vendetta dei Tughs (1954) - Sulima
Madonna delle rose (1954)
Il cantante misterioso (1955) - Olga
Suonno d'ammore (1955) - Carmen De Blasi
Sultana Safiyè (1955)
La ladra (1955) - Gemma
Una sera di maggio (1955) - His Secretary
Vendicata! (1956)
Il canto dell'emigrante (1956)
Cantando sotto le stelle (1956) - Moglie di A. Pezzetti 2°
Sette canzoni per sette sorelle (1957) - Signorina Paoletti
La canzone più bella (1957)
A vent'anni è sempre festa (1957)
Il romanzo di un giovane povero (1958)
Captain Falcon (1958) - Teresa
Ritrovarsi all'alba (1959)
Quel tesoro di papà (1959) - Adelaide
Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) - Bruno's Mother
Due selvaggi a corte (1959)
Agosto, donne mie non vi conosco (1959)
Spavaldi e innamorati (1959)
Goliath and the Dragon (1960) - La Sibilla
Fury of the Pagans (1960)
The Last of the Vikings (1961) - Herta
Spade senza bandiera (1961)
Revolt of the Mercenaries (1961) - Miriam du Marchant
5 marines per 100 ragazze (1961) - Una professoressa
Triumph of the Son of Hercules (1961) - Yalis - the Oracle
Revenge of the Conquered (1961)
Gerarchi si muore (1961) - Tatiana Merletti
Gli anni ruggenti (1962)
Zorro alla corte di Spagna (1962) - Francisca Di Villa Verde
Caesar the Conqueror (1962) - Calpurnia
Musketeers of the Sea (1962) - Zalamea
Roaring Years (1962) - Bibiana
Avventura al motel (1963) - Elvira
The Eye of the Needle (1963) - Elisabetta
The Magnificent Adventurer (1963) - Zia di Angela
Il terrore dei mantelli rossi (1963)
Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963) - High Priestess
D'Artagnan contro i 3 moschettieri (1963)
Bebo's Girl (1964) - Mara's Mother
FBI chiama Istanbul (1964) - Laura Basento
Hercules the Invincible (1964) - Queen Etel
Terror in the Crypt (1964) - Ljuba's Mother
Le sette vipere (Il marito latino) (1964)
00-2 agenti segretissimi (1964) - Russian Spy Chief
Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens (1964) - Farida, Omar's lover
Bullets and the Flesh (1964) - Master's Maid
I magnifici brutos del West (1964)
Vengeance of the Vikings (1965) - Freiodis - Erik's Mother
Secret Agent Fireball (1965) - Jane Cartland
Veneri in collegio (1965)
The Double Bed (1965) - Mother
Operation Poker (1965) - Russian Agent
The Tramplers (1965) - Mrs. Temple Cordeen
Mondo pazzo... gente matta! (1966) - Butcher's Wife
Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut (1966) - Boss
Killer's Carnival (1966) - Female boss (Rome segment)
L'affare Beckett (1966) - Nadia
One Thousand Dollars on the Black (1966) - Rhonda
Hello Glen Ward, House Dick (1968) - Mrs. Parker
Better a Widow (1968) - Rosa's governess
The Seven Red Berets (1969)
Taste of Vengeance (1969) - Mother Douglas
Poppea's Hot Nights (1969) - Calpurnia
Erika (1971) - Concettina
No Way Out (1973) - Arzenta's Mother
Anna, quel particolare piacere (1973) - Anna's mother
La cameriera (1974) - Rosalia / Don Gaetano's wife
Salvo D'Acquisto (1974) - Laundress
La encadenada (1975) - Mother Superior
Una vergine in famiglia (1975) - Francesca Vicini
The Flower in His Mouth (1975)
Calore in provincia (1975) - Nena
La campagnola bella (1976)
La cameriera nera (1976) - Eleonora
Submission (1976) - Carmen
La sorprendente eredità del tontodimammà (1977)
Verso sera (1990)
Io e il re (1995)
Voglio stare sotto al letto (1999)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano - Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 888440214X.
^ ^a ^b Ida Biondi. "Carla Calò". MyMovies. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b Franco Grattarola, Andrea Napoli. Luce rossa. La nascita e le prime fasi del cinema pornografico in Italia. Iacobelli, 2014. ISBN 8862522134.
^ E' morta l'attrice Carla Calò. Ha recitato in più di cento film