Orchidea De Santis
Orchidea De Santis, pseudonym of Orchidea De Sanctis (Bari, December 20, 1948), is an Italian actress. Of Salento origins but born in Bari due to her father's work as an officer in the Navy, she moved with her family, who ran a hotel in the capital of Puglia, first to Gallipoli and then to Rome, following her sister who was sixteen years older. At the beginning she was also a singer and, later, a theater actress. She has ranged from cinema to radio, from theater to music, until arriving on television. From 2006 to 2013 she managed a blog. She collaborates with various animal rights and environmental associations. Active especially in the Seventies, she was an interpreter of the Italian sexy comedy, initially mainly in costume and with a Boccaccian setting. Her presence in Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno is curious, a film in which, for script needs, she was made up to appear ugly. In 1979, her film career came to an abrupt end following a serious injury on the set of Carlo Vanzina's film Arrivano i gatti when, due to an accidental fall into a trap door, she broke her elbow (which was later completely surgically reconstructed), risking permanent damage to her entire arm.
57 acting credits
Acting · 57
Under the Sheets
1976
Eurotika!
1999
How I Learned to Love Women
1966
The Sweet Aunts
1975
La nipote
1974
Rene the Cane
1977
The Family Vice
1975
Two Sons of Ringo
1966
These Mad, Mad Women
1964
Tales of Erotica
1973
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
1972
Una bella governante di colore
1976
Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods
1972
Hector the Mighty
1972
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1974
The Sensual Man
1973
Charlys Nichten
1974
Devil in the Brain
1972
Togli le gambe dal parabrezza
1969
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito
1977
Decameroticus
1972
Love, Passion and Pleasure
1972
Love Angels
1974
Lady Dynamite
1973
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976
L'ingenua
1975
The Weekend Murders
1970
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
1972
Hurry, the Schoolgirls Are Coming!
1975
The Sexbury Tales
1973
Close Friends
1992
The Battle of the Mods
1966
Your Sweet Body to Kill
1970
The Forbidden Decameron
1972
Coup D'Etat
1969
Hot Nights of the Decameron
1972
Arrivano i gatti
1980
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978
Psychopath
1968
Snow White
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Quelli belli... siamo noi
1970
3 Avengers
1964
Ridendo e scherzando
1978
To Love Ophelia
1974
La sensualità è un attimo di vita
1975
The Labyrinth of Sex
1969
Prey of Vultures
1972
The Killer Wore Gloves
1974
Three Under the Sheets
1979
Invasion
1970
Una macchia rosa
1970
Il nero
1966
L'appuntamento
1977
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977
Provaci anche tu Lionel
1973
Le mille e una notte all'italiana
1972
Scusi, si potrebbe evitare il servizio militare?... No!
1974