Gia Scala (1934 - 1972) جيا سكالا

Filmography

• Actor (3)
  • • 
    • • The Guns of Navarone
      • 1961 - Movie
  • • 
    • • The Angry Hills
      • 1959 - Movie
  • • 
    • • The Tunnel of Love
      • 1958 - Movie

More details

• British actress who was born in Liverpool, Merseyside England, United Kingdom on March 3, 1934 as Josefina Grazia Scoglio. She married actor Don Burnett in 1959 and was divorced in...Read more 1970. She died on April 30, 1972 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA after an overdose of a hypnotic. Her most important works include Don't Go Near the Water (1957), Ride a Crooked Trail (1958), and The Tunnel of Love (1958). She was tall, dazzling in beauty, but strangely shy and sensitive. She was born to an aristocratic Sicilian father and an Irish mother in England, and moved with her parents to Sicily at the age of 3 months; then, she immigrated with them to New York at the age of 14 and completed her high school in 1952 at Queen's School to join several administrative jobs. She joined the actor's studio to learn acting and worked on television. She signed a contract with Universal, and after several small roles in the cinema, she appeared as a star in the movie The Price of Fear (1956). After the sixties, she began a journey of decline for several factors in her life, including her addiction to alcohol, her marriage to actor Don Burnett, and her loss of her contract with Universal. She threw herself over Waterloo Bridge, but someone rescued her from drowning in the Thames. Her addiction to alcohol exposed her to arrest several times and admission to a mental institution. Eventually, she ended her life with an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills.

• Nationality:
• UK

• Date of Birth:
• 3 March 1934

• Died on:
• 30 April 1972

Crew worked with

• • Stanley Baker
• • Peter Grant
• • Arthur Howell
• • Anthony Quayle
• • Elisabeth Muller
• • David Niven

Comments