Nieves Navarro
Nieves Navarro García (born 11 November 1938) is a retired Spanish-born Italian actress and fashion model. Navarro worked extensively in Italian cinema appearing alongside actors such as Totò and Lino Banfi in the 1960s and 1970s. She later adopted the Americanized stage name Susan Scott for many of her productions after 1969.
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| Born | Nieves Navarro García 11 November 1938 Almería, Spain |
| Other names | Susan Scott Suzanne Scott |
| Occupation(s) | Actress Model |
| Years active | 1964–1989 |
| Spouse | Luciano Ercoli (1972–2015; his death) |
Navarro was also one of the first female stars of the Spaghetti Western genre making her feature film debut in A Pistol for Ringo and its sequel The Return of Ringo along with later appearances in The Big Gundown (1966), Long Days of Vengeance (1967), Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (1970) and Adiós, Sabata (1971). In 1972, she married the Italian director and producer Luciano Ercoli, starring in many of his productions up until the early-1980s, and was familiar for her erotically themed roles in giallo and sex comedies. She went into semi-retirement after 1983, making two last films in 1989. In recent years, she returned to live in her native Spain with her husband.
Career
Navarro's career began as advertising and fashion model. The introduction of television in Spain in 1956 led to further appearances in commercials and other work in the industry during the next few years. She began her career as a film actress in Italy alongside Totò in the Lawrence of Arabia parody Toto of Arabia (1965),[1][2] a Spanish-Italian co-production, in which she played Doris, a beautiful spy in the service of the British SIS, who charms the Sheik of Kuwait El Ali el Buzur (Fernando Sancho) and allows Totò to use her to drive the one hundred wives of the Sheik jealous.
Her early work in films took place in the Spaghetti Westerns that were shot regularly in her hometown of Almeria. In 1965, she appeared in A Pistol for Ringo, starring Giuliano Gemma, as the girlfriend of the Mexican bandit Sancho (Fernando Sancho). Navarro also appeared in the sequel The Return of Ringo,[3] and supporting roles in The Big Gundown (1966),[4][5][6] Long Days of Vengeance (1967), Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (1970)[7] and Adiós, Sabata (1971).[4] Nieves also had leading roles in a number of action[1] and horror films during this period[8][9] and was among the protagonists of the film Death Walks At Midnight (1972), directed by Luciano Ercoli, who eventually became her husband.
She subsequently moved to Italy with Ercoli where she spent the rest of her career, starring in many of her husband's projects, which ended veering towards Italian erotica and "giallo" cinema. It was in the latter genre that highlighted her as a major star especially her appearances in the Emannuelle series, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) and Emanuelle e Lolita (1978), directed by Joe D'Amato[8] and Henri Sala respectively.
In 1983, Navarro attempted to return to Spanish cinema with films like Gianfranco Angelucci's drama Honey with Fernando Rey,[10] but with less than expected success. She made two last films in 1989, Fiori di zucca and Casa di piacere, before going into retirement.[11] In recent years, she has returned to Spain, settling in Barcelona with Ercoli.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Toto of Arabia | Doris | |
| A Pistol for Ringo | Dolores | ||
| The Return of Ringo | Rosita | ||
| 1966 | Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang | Alina Shakespeare | |
| Rojo | Consuelo | ||
| Che notte, ragazzi! | Consuelo | ||
| The Big Gundown | The Widow | ||
| 1967 | Long Days of Vengeance | Dolly | |
| 1969 | Le Paria | Sylvia | |
| A Wrong Way to Love | Anna Lanfranchi | ||
| Amor a todo gas | Laura Montes / Falsa Elena | ||
| Siete minutos para morir | Karin Foster | ||
| Naked Violence | Livia Ussaro | ||
| 1970 | Adiós, Sabata | Saloon Dancer at Kingsville, Texas | |
| Le foto proibite di una signora per bene | Dominique | ||
| Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming | Belle Manassas | ||
| 1971 | Death Walks on High Heels | Nicole Rochard | |
| 1972 | All the Colors of the Dark | Barbara Harrison | |
| Kill the Poker Player | Lilly / Kate | ||
| So Sweet, So Dead | Lily | ||
| Death Walks at Midnight | Valentina | ||
| 1973 | Death Carries a Cane | Kitty | |
| The Magnificent Dare Devil | Nina | ||
| 1974 | Il giudice e la minorenne | Laura | |
| Chi ha rubato il tesoro dello scia? | |||
| 1975 | Il vizio di famiglia | Ines, the Countess | |
| Los hijos de Scaramouche | Princesa | ||
| 1976 | There's a Spy in My Bed | Madame | |
| Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk | Crystal | ||
| Mauricio, mon amour | Uncredited | ||
| Noi siam come le lucciole | |||
| Il medico... la studentessa | Luisa | ||
| 1977 | The Rip-Off | Ornella | |
| Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals | Maggie McKenzie | ||
| 1978 | Cugine mie | Aunt Gaia | |
| Emanuelle e Lolita | Emanuelle | ||
| 1979 | Candide Lolita | Adrienne Larousse | |
| The Nurse in the Military Madhouse | Veronica La Russa | ||
| 1980 | Sex and Black Magic | Helen | |
| 1981 | La moglie in bianco... l'amante al pepe | Anna-Maria Mancuso | |
| Honey | Governess | ||
| 1983 | El fascista, doña Pura y el follón de la escultura | Pura | |
| 1989 | Fiori di zucca | Madre di Enzo | |
| Casa di piacere | (final film role) |
References
- Parish, James and Michael Pitts. The Great Spy Pictures II. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1986. (pp. 138, 375) ISBN 0-8108-1913-9
- Giacovelli, Enrico. Poi dice che uno si butta a sinistra!. Rome: Gremese, 1994. (p. 304)
- Giacovelli, Enrico. Un Secolo di Cinema Italiano, 1900–1999: Dalle origini agli anni Sessanta. Lindau: Torino, 2002. (p. 339)
- Frayling, Christopher. Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1981. (pp. 262–263) ISBN 0-7100-0503-2
- Hughes, Howard. Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006. (pp. 31, 38, 151) ISBN 1-85043-896-X
- Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide. New York: Penguin, 2008. (p. 124) ISBN 0-452-28978-5
- Green, Paul. Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2009. (pp. 151, 176) ISBN 0-7864-4390-1
- Weisser, Thomas. Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, The Bad, and The Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961–1977. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1992. (pp. 9, 193) ISBN 0-89950-688-7
- Stine, Scott Aaron. The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2001. (p. 234) ISBN 0-7864-0924-X
- Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2004. New York: Signet, 2003. (p. 633) ISBN 0-451-20940-0
- Castoldi, Gian Luca. Donne in Prigione: Nazisti, Horror e Fantascienza, Thriller, Decameroni e Film Esotici. Rome: Profondo Rosso, 2005. (p. 198)
Further reading
- Baldi, Alfredo. Schermi Proibiti: La Censura in Italia 1947-1988. Venice: Marsilio, 2002.
- Bruschini, Antonio and Antonio Tentori, ed. Western all'italiana: The Specialists. Firenze: Glittering lmages, 1998.
- Giusti, Marco. Dizionario del Western all'Italiana. Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2007.
External links
- Nieves Navarro/Susan Scott at Cinemorgue.com Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Nieves Navarro at IMDb
- Nieves Navarro at TV Guide
- Nieves Navarro at AllMovie
- Susan Scott at Rotten Tomatoes