Alida Valli
1921–2006 · Italian actress
Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg, better known by her stage name Alida Valli, or simply Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films in a 70-year career, spanning from the 1930s to the early 2000s. She was one of the biggest stars of Italian film during the Fascist era, once being called "the most beautiful woman in the world" by Benito Mussolini, and was internationally successful post-World War II.
Alida Valli, in order
- 1934 The Three-Cornered Hat: acted · directed by Mario Camerini
- 1936 The Two Sergeants: acted · directed by Enrico Guazzoni
- 1937 It Was I!: acted · directed by Raffaello Matarazzo
- 1937 The Ferocious Saladin: acted · directed by Mario Bonnard
- 1938 L'ha fatto una signora: acted · directed by Mario Mattoli
- 1938 La casa del peccato: acted · directed by Max Neufeld
- 1938 The Last Enemy: acted · directed by Umberto Barbaro
- 1939 Mille lire al mese: acted · directed by Luigi Zampa and Max Neufeld
- 1939 The Castle Ball: acted · directed by Max Neufeld
- 1939 Unjustified Absence: acted · directed by Max Neufeld
- 1940 Beyond Love: acted · directed by Carmine Gallone
- 1940 Manon Lescaut: acted · directed by Carmine Gallone
- 1940 Red Tavern: acted · directed by Max Neufeld
- 1940 The First Woman Who Passes: acted · directed by Max Neufeld
- 1941 Luce nelle tenebre: acted · directed by Mario Mattoli
- 1941 Piccolo mondo antico: acted · directed by Mario Soldati
- 1941 Schoolgirl Diary: acted · directed by Mario Mattoli
- 1941 The Secret Lover: acted · directed by Carmine Gallone
- 1942 Addio Kira!: acted · directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
- 1942 Catene invisibili: acted · directed by Mario Mattoli
- 1942 Stasera niente di nuovo: acted · directed by Mario Mattoli
- 1942 The Two Orphans: acted · directed by Carmine Gallone
- 1942 We the Living: acted · directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
- 1943 Apparition: acted · directed by Jean de Limur
- 1943 Laugh, Pagliacci: acted · directed by Giuseppe Fatigati
- 1943 T'amerò sempre: acted · directed by Mario Camerini
- 1945 Life Begins Anew: acted · directed by Mario Mattoli
- 1945 The Za-Bum Circus: acted · directed by Mario Mattoli
- 1947 Eugenia Grandet: acted · directed by Mario Soldati
- 1947 The Paradine Case: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 71%, audiences 50% · streaming on Fawesome
- 1948 The Miracle of the Bells: acted · directed by Irving Pichel
- 1949 The Third Man: acted · directed by Carol Reed · critics 99%, audiences 93% · streaming on Kanopy, Plex, Fawesome
- 1950 The White Tower: acted · directed by Ted Tetzlaff
- 1950 Walk Softly, Stranger: acted · directed by Robert Stevenson
- 1951 Last Meeting: acted · directed by Gianni Franciolini
- 1951 Miracles Only Happen Once: acted · directed by Yves Allégret
- 1953 Lovers of Toledo: acted · directed by Fernando Palacios and Henri Decoin
- 1953 The Stranger's Hand: acted · directed by Mario Soldati
- 1953 The World Condemns Them: acted · directed by Gianni Franciolini
- 1953 We, the Women: acted · directed by Alfredo Guarini and Gianni Franciolini
- 1954 Senso: acted · directed by Luchino Visconti · critics 86%, audiences 73% · streaming on HBO Max
- 1957 Il Grido: acted · directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
- 1957 La grande strada azzurra: acted · directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
- 1957 This Angry Age: acted · directed by René Clément
- 1958 L'amore più bello: acted · directed by Glauco Pellegrini
- 1958 The Naked Maja: acted · directed by Henry Koster and Mario Russo
- 1958 The Night Heaven Fell: acted · directed by Roger Vadim
- 1959 Signé Arsène Lupin: acted · directed by Yves Robert
- 1960 Dialogue with the Carmelites: acted · directed by Philippe Agostini and Raymond Léopold Bruckberger
- 1960 Eyes Without a Face: acted · directed by Claude Sautet and Georges Franju
- 1960 Il peccato degli anni verdi: acted · directed by Leopoldo Trieste and Silvio Maestranzi
- 1960 The Gigolo: acted · directed by Jacques Deray
- 1961 The Happy Thieves: acted · directed by George Marshall
- 1961 The Long Absence: acted · directed by Henri Colpi
- 1962 Disorder: acted · directed by Franco Brusati
- 1962 Homage at Siesta Time: acted · directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
- 1962 La fille du torrent: acted · directed by Hans Herwig
- 1963 Ophelia: acted · directed by Claude Chabrol
- 1963 The Castilian: acted · directed by Javier Setó
- 1963 The Paper Man: acted · directed by Ismael Rodríguez
- 1965 Black Humor: acted · directed by Claude Autant-Lara and José María Forqué
- 1967 Oedipus Rex: acted · directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- 1970 The Mushroom: acted · directed by Marc Simenon
- 1970 The Spider's Stratagem (TV movie): acted · directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
- 1970 The Weekend Murders: acted · directed by Michele Lupo
- 1972 Eye in the Labyrinth: acted · directed by Mario Caiano
- 1972 Indian Summer: acted · directed by Valerio Zurlini
- 1974 Lisa and the Devil: acted · directed by Mario Bava
- 1974 Lola: acted · directed by José María Forqué
- 1974 Tender Dracula: acted · directed by Pierre Grunstein
- 1974 The Antichrist: acted · directed by Alberto De Martino
- 1975 Cher Victor: acted · directed by Robin Davis
- 1975 La Chair de l'orchidée: acted · directed by Patrice Chéreau · audiences 82%
- 1975 The House of Exorcism: acted · directed by Alfredo Leone and Mario Bava
- 1975 The House of Raoul: acted · directed by Maurizio Ponzi
- 1976 1900: acted · directed by Bernardo Bertolucci · critics 57%, audiences 84% · streaming on MGM+
- 1976 Le jeu du solitaire: acted · directed by Jean-François Adam
- 1976 The Cassandra Crossing: acted · directed by George P. Cosmatos
- 1977 A Simple Heart: acted · directed by Giorgio Ferrara
- 1977 Berlinguer, I Love You: acted · directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci
- 1977 Suspiria: acted · directed by Dario Argento
- 1978 The Perfect Crime: acted · directed by Giuseppe Rosati
- 1979 Killer Nun: acted · directed by Giulio Berruti
- 1979 La Luna: acted · directed by Bernardo Bertolucci · critics 54%, audiences 69%
- 1979 The Bailiff of Greifensee: acted · directed by Wilfried Bolliger
- 1980 Inferno: acted · directed by Dario Argento
- 1981 La caduta degli angeli ribelli: acted · directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
- 1981 Peacetime in Paris: acted · directed by Predrag Golubović
- 1982 Sogni mostruosamente proibiti: acted · directed by Neri Parenti
- 1984 Segreti segreti: acted · directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci
- 1985 Aspern: acted · directed by Eduardo de Gregorio
- 1987 Manuela's Loves: acted · directed by Geneviève Lefebvre
- 1988 À notre regrettable époux: acted · directed by Serge Korber
- 1990 La bocca: acted · directed by Luca Verdone
- 1991 The Party's Over: acted · directed by Alessandro Benvenuti
- 1993 The Long Silence: acted · directed by Margarethe von Trotta
- 1994 The Final Scoop: acted · directed by Pierfrancesco Campanella
- 1995 A Month by the Lake: acted · directed by John Irvin
- 1996 Fatal Frames: acted · directed by Al Festa
- 1999 Il dolce rumore della vita: acted · directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci
- 2001 Probably Love: acted · directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci
- 2001 Vino santo (TV movie): acted · directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger
- 2002 Semana santa: acted · directed by Pepe Danquart