Lidia Alfonsi

Acting

Born April 28, 1928, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Lydia Alfonsi, born Lidia (Parma, 27 April 1928 - Parma, 21 September 2022), was an Italian actress. An actress of great expressiveness, her name is linked above all to the golden age of television dramas in the 1960s, with works such as La Pisana; Mastro Don Gesualdo; Luisa Sanfelice and Il segreto di Luca. In 1970, she received the French critics' award for best Italian television actress. Though acclaimed for her roles on the classical stage (including as Medea, Phaedra and Electra) she is probably best known abroad as a protagonist of films like Hercules (1958), Morgan the Pirate (1960) and The Trojan Horse (1961) (all starring Steve Reeves). Alfonsi also co-starred alongside Boris Karloff in Mario Bava 's atmospheric psycho- thriller Black Sabbath (1963). Alfonsi was named a Grand Officer of the Italian Republic by then-president of Italy Alessandro Pertini. She retired from screen acting in 1997.

Filmography

• 1997Life Is Beautiful — Mrs. Guicciardini
• Der Bergdoktor — Maria Spreti
• 1990Open Doors — Marchesa Anna Pironti
• Una lepre con la faccia di bambina — madre di Sara
• 1973Lady Dynamite
• Il segreto di Luca — Ortensia
• 1969L'amore è come il sole — Ursula
• 1969Love Birds — Conny
• 1967Face to Face — Belle de Winton
• 1967The Strange Night — Erika
• 1965Al calar del sipario
• 1965Violence and Love — Lucia
• Mastro Don Gesualdo — Bianca Trao
• 1964Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
• Vita di Michelangelo — Vittoria Colonna
• 1963Black Sabbath — Mary (segment "The Telephone")
• 1963Summer Night — Carmen
• 1962A Man for Burning — Francesca (as Lydia Alfonsi)
• 1961The Trojan Horse — Cassandra
• 1960Morgan, the Pirate — Dona Maria
• 1960The Dolphins — attrice giovane
• 1960The Loves of Hercules — Megara
• 1959The Law — Giuseppina
• 1958Hercules — The Sybil
• 1957Manos sucias — Pilar
• 1957Susanna and Me — Julia
• 1951White Leprosy