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Catherine Spaak is a Actor Italienne born on 3 april 1945 at Boulogne-Billancourt (France)
Catherine Spaak (born 3 April 1945) is a French actress and singer. Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Ile-de-France).
In 2011 she appeared in BBC TV's "mini-series" Zen.
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Catherine Spaak
Birth name Catherine Spaak
Nationality Italie
Birth 3 april 1945 at Boulogne-Billancourt (France)
Death 17 april 2022 (at 77 years)
Nationality Italie
Birth 3 april 1945 at Boulogne-Billancourt (France)
Death 17 april 2022 (at 77 years)
Catherine Spaak (born 3 April 1945) is a French actress and singer. Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Ile-de-France).
Biography
Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine (Ile-de-France) in 1945. She spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Catherine Spaak was the lead actress in at least twelve movies and, as a singer, was regarded by some as the Italian equivalent of French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, some of whose songs she recorded in 1963. Born into a firmly anticlerical family, at the age of eighteen she decided to embrace Catholicism (now she considers herself a Buddhist). Notable appearances include classic Italian movies such as I dolci inganni (1960), La voglia matta (1961), The Easy Life (1962), The Girl from Parma (1963), The Empty Canvas (1963), L'armata Brancaleone (1965), Hotel (1967) with Rod Taylor, The Libertine (1969), The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971), Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), The Slave (1973), Take a Hard Ride with Jim Brown (1975) and Sunday Lovers (1980). She later hosted several TV shows for RAI TV and published some books in Italian.In 2011 she appeared in BBC TV's "mini-series" Zen.
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The Greatest of All (2012)
Directed by Carlo Virzì
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Claudia Pandolfi, Corrado Fortuna, Claudia Potenza, Catherine Spaak
Roles Esmeralda
Rating61%
Sous l'impulsion d'un journaliste (Corrado Fortuna), un groupe de rock composé de Loris Vanni (Alessandro Roja ), de Sabrina Cenci (Claudia Pandolfi), de Maurilio Fantini (Marco Cocci ) et de Rino Falorni (Dario Cappanera) se reforme.
Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2005)
Directed by Régis Musset, Charlotte Brändström
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Sarah Biasini, Pierre Arditi, Gottfried John, Thure Riefenstein, Jürgen Prochnow, Catherine Spaak
Roles La mère supérieure
Rating57%
Téléfilm en deux parties : La jeune Julie va découvrir ses véritables origines en même temps qu'elle part sur les traces de l'assassin de son père. Sur fond de trahisons, duels et rebondissements à la cour du Roi Soleil, elle devra livrer un combat sans merci pour découvrir l'identité de ses parents, mais aussi pour s'imposer comme cantatrice et enfin pouvoir aimer Gaspard, son compagnon d'infortune.
Secret Scandal (1990)
, 1h25Directed by Monica Vitti
Genres Drama
Actors Monica Vitti, Elliott Gould, Catherine Spaak, Gino Pernice, Pietro De Vico
Roles Laura
Rating56%
On her birthday, Margherita (Monica Vitti) receives a video camera from a friend, who is a film director (Elliott Gould). She decides to use the device to keep a diary of her life. As the camera is capable of recording automatically, snippets usually feature her talking. However, on one occasion, Margherita leaves the camera in her bedroom as it was still recording; it catches Margherita's husband, Paolo (Gino Pernice), who has always had a distant demeanor to her, as he cheats on her with her best friend (Catherine Spaak). A secret scandal ensues in their separation with Paolo's departure and Margherita going into a deep depression, even to the point of contemplating suicide. Her friend, the director who gave her the camera, examines the film, and concludes that it is interesting material for an actual movie.
Claretta (1984)
Directed by Pasquale Squitieri
Genres Historical
Actors Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, Caterina Boratto, Nancy Brilli, Angela Goodwin, Maria Mercader
Roles Roberta
Rating66%
Claretta (1984)
Directed by Pasquale Squitieri
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, Caterina Boratto, Nancy Brilli, Angela Goodwin, Maria Mercader
Roles Roberta, la journaliste
Rating66%
Une journaliste (Catherine Spaak) souhaite tourner un film sur la vie et la mort de Claretta Petacci (Claudia Cardinale), la maîtresse de Benito Mussolini (Fernando Briamo). Pour cela, elle va se tourner vers sa sœur Miriam.
Le Jour le plus court (1982)
, 2hDirected by Pierre Kast
Actors Catherine Spaak, Alexandra Stewart, Jacques Serres, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat, Pierre Kast, Helvio Soto
Roles Catherine-Béatrice
Deux histoires : Une mère de famille, Catherine, entre dans la Résistance en 1942 et devient Agent de liaison principal du Jura. Marceau, envoyé en Angleterre, volontaire des services secrets, est parachuté en 1942...
Sunday Lovers (1980)
, 2h5Directed by Gene Wilder, Édouard Molinaro, Dino Risi, Bryan Forbes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Anthology film, Romance
Actors Gene Wilder, Roger Moore, Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Priscilla Barnes
Roles Carletta
Rating55%
L'action se situe dans les pays d'origine des metteurs en scène. Angleterre (Maître en la demeure) : Le chauffeur d'un lord se fait passer pour son patron afin de charmer les hôtesses de l'air qu'il invite dans le château de son maître...
Catherine and I (1980)
, 1h45Directed by Alberto Sordi
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Catherine Spaak, Edwige Fenech, Rossano Brazzi, Valeria Valeri, Ugo Bologna
Roles Claudia Parise
Rating55%
Enrico has a troubled relationship with his wife, daughter and lover. For this reason he decides to download all of them and to dedicate himself to peace. In fact he has been attracted by the waiter-robot of a friend, and so Enrico asks him to sell it. The robot is called Catherine (Caterina) and serves Enrico to perfection, but he ends up falling in love with him, and so it equally happens to Catherine, who becomes infatuated with his master. Howeve, the different nature of the two prevents the relationship ...
The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
, 1h32Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Paolo Villaggio, Catherine Spaak, Gigi Reder, Anna Mazzamauro, Carlo Giuffrè, Anna Maria Rizzoli
Roles Elena De Fanti - la moglie di Arturo
Rating57%
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover. When this woman is in economic crisis, the fool Arturo offers his wife to accommodate the girl in disguise in the house. But she realizes the deception, more so when she does get into the home another man: her lover!
Directed by Flavio Mogherini
Genres Comedy
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Monica Vitti, Renato Pozzetto, Catherine Spaak, Milena Vukotic, Tiziana Pini, Eugene Walter
Roles Ottavio's Wife (segment "Il teorema gregoriano")
Rating56%
Horse Fever (1976)
, 1h34Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Gigi Proietti, Enrico Montesano, Catherine Spaak, Mario Carotenuto, Maria Teresa Albani, Gigi Ballista
Roles Gabriella
Rating72%
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
, 1h43Directed by Antonio Margheriti, Hal Needham
Origin Italie
Genres Action, Western
Actors Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly, Barry Sullivan, Dana Andrews
Roles Catherine
Rating56%
Pike (Jim Brown), the right-hand man of cattle rancher Bob Morgan (Dana Andrews), is entrusted with a mission to deliver $86,000 across the border to the Morgan Ranch in Sonora, Mexico after his boss dies. Pike teams up with dishonest gambler Tyree (Fred Williamson) and they are forced to trust each other while being pursued by various outlaws and gunmen trying to possess the money, including the ruthless bounty hunter Kiefer (Lee Van Cleef) and corrupt sheriff Kane (Barry Sullivan).
The Way of the Baboons (1974)
Directed by Luigi Magni
Genres Comedy
Actors Catherine Spaak, Lionel Stander
Roles Fiorenza
Rating59%
My Darling Slave (1973)
Directed by Giorgio Capitani
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Lando Buzzanca, Gordon Mitchell, Catherine Spaak, Adriana Asti, Gianni Bonagura, Paolo Carlini
Roles Rosalba
Rating56%
Demetrio Cultrera (Lando Buzzanca), is a young, rich Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful (and also rich) Rosalba (Catherine Spaak), daughter of a local business owner.
Dear Parents (1973)
Directed by Enrico Maria Salerno
Genres Drama
Actors Florinda Bolkan, Catherine Spaak, Maria Schneider, Tom Baker, Malcolm Stoddard, Jean Anderson
Roles Madeleine
Rating66%