Gabriella Licudi obit

Gabriella Licudi Has Died

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Gabriella Licudi was born Gabrielle Carmen Stuttard, the only child of Wilfred James Stuttard, a naval engineer from Northern Ireland, and Olga Maria Licudi of Gibraltar, from whom she took her stage name. After seeing a film dealing with the education of deaf mutes, Gabriella was so moved she decided to become a teacher of elocution. To help prepare for her chosen profession she enrolled in courses at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where she was spotted by an agent while performing in a class production in 1961. Accepting an offer from the Citizen's Theatre of Glasgow, a week before departing for Scotland Gabriella "gate-crashed" an audition for a new stage play, John Mortimer's "Two Stars for Comfort", starring Trevor Howard. The play was a hit and ran for nine months in London's West End. Producer Samuel Bronston attended a performance and offered Gabriella a small role in his upcoming epic The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). Gabriella went on to appear in several more films & popular television series, including the title role in the sci-fi cult classic Unearthly Stranger (1963), as a widowed expatriate opposite Patrick McGoohan in an episode of Secret Agent (1964), one of the conspiratorial McTarry daughters in the Bond-spoof extravaganza Casino Royale (1967), in the Henry Hathaway African adventure The Last Safari (1967), and the female lead in the legendary and little-seen experimental feature Herostratus (1967) by Don Levy. Gabriella left films in the 1970s and relocated to Africa, where she and her South African husband ran a safari lodge for several years before she eventually returned to London to run her own production company.

 

Considered for role of Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love (1963).

Spoke English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Actress

Fulton Mackay, Patrick Mower, Derren Nesbitt, Wensley Pithey, and George Sewell in Special Branch (1969)

Special Branch

7.4

TV Series

Lena Drummond

1974

1 episode

 

Undercovers Hero (1974)

Undercovers Hero

5.2

Simone

1974

 

Madame Sin (1972)

Madame Sin

5.7

Nun

1972

 

Peter Cushing and Nigel Stock in The Sign of Four (1968)

Sherlock Holmes

7.4

TV Series

Beryl Stapleton

1968

2 episodes

 

The Last Safari (1967)

The Last Safari

5.2

Grant

1967

 

Gabriella Licudi in Herostratus (1967)

Herostratus

6.7

Clio

1967

 

The Jokers (1967)

The Jokers

6.6

Eve

1967

 

Casino Royale (1967)

Casino Royale

5.0

Eliza

1967

 

Road to Saint Tropez (1966)

Road to Saint Tropez

6.4

Short

Girl

1966

 

The Liquidator (1965)

The Liquidator

5.9

Corale

1965

 

Patrick McGoohan in Secret Agent (1964)

Secret Agent

8.2

TV Series

Emma

1965

1 episode

 

You Must Be Joking! (1965)

You Must Be Joking!

5.9

Annabelle Nash

1965

 

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

The Fall of the Roman Empire

6.7

Tauna (uncredited)

1964

 

Reginald Marsh, Barbara Murray, and Patrick Wymark in The Plane Makers (1963)

The Plane Makers

7.9

TV Series

Lamorna

1964

2 episodes

 

Compact (1962)

Compact

6.8

TV Series

Jacintha

1964

1 episode

 

No Hiding Place (1959)

No Hiding Place

7.6

TV Series

Raine Smith

1963

1 episode

 

Comedy Playhouse (1961)

Comedy Playhouse

7.2

TV Series

Samantha Trout

1963

1 episode

 

The Scales of Justice (1962)

The Scales of Justice

7.9

TV Series

Beryl

1963

1 episode

 

Unearthly Stranger (1963)

Unearthly Stranger

6.4

Julie Davidson

1963

 

Moonstrike (1963)

Moonstrike

8.5

TV Series

Marie

1963

1 episode

 

Rupert Davies in Maigret (1959)

Maigret

7.8

TV Series

Helga

1962

1 episode

 

Candidate for Murder (1962)

Candidate for Murder

6.3

Guest at Party

1962

 

All Night Long (1962)

All Night Long

7.1

Girl (uncredited)

1962

 

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959)

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre

7.7

TV Series

Guest at Party

1962

1 episode

 

Jean Kent and Terence Morgan in Sir Francis Drake (1961)

Sir Francis Drake

7.1

TV Series

Lady-in-Waiting

1961

1 episode

 

Michael Quinn and Donald Wolfit in Ghost Squad (1961)

Ghost Squad

7.2

TV Series

Hortense

1961

1 episode

 

One Step Beyond (1959)

One Step Beyond

7.8

TV Series

Elsa Bruck (as Gabrielli Licudi)

1961

1 episode