Delia
Boccardo was born in Genoa, Liguria, Italy on January 29, 1948. The sister of
actress Gabriella Grimaldi, Delia spent her childhood and adolescence in Nervi,
then studied in a Swiss College, in the Poggio Imperiale girl's school and, for
about three years, in a College in Sussex. In 1965 she moved in Rome where she
attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Boccardo made her stage
debut in 1967, alongside Raf Vallone in “Uno sguardo dal ponte”, shortly after
she made her film debuted in 1967 with an appearance as Mady in the
Euro-western “Death Walks in Laredo”. She went on to
routinely provide diverting and seductive decoration in numerous tales of
intrigue and other outdoor adventure. In her third film she made her first
English-speaking appearance as leading lady to Alan Arkin in the misguided
comedy “Inspector Clouseau” (1968) with Arkin briefly replacing Peter Sellers
as the thoroughly inept French detective. Additional European-filmed appearances
by Boccardo include co-star to some of Europe's most virile and handsome actors
of the 1970s: Franco Nero in “Un detective” (1969), Bekim Fehmiu in the
US-produced epic “The Adventurers” (1970), Lou Castel in “Stress” (1971), and
even found herself a co-star to skier Jean-Claude Killy in “Snow Job” (1972).
Continuing into the early 1980s, Delia proved an entrancing Athena in the
Italian-made “Hercules” (1983), starring Lou Ferrigno and portrayed Mary
Magdalene in the TV-movie ‘The Day Christ Died’ (1980). From the mid-1980s she
focused on a stage career, where she worked intensively with Luca Ronconi, and
on television.
BOCCARDO,
Delia [1/29/1948, Genoa, Liguria, Italy - ] – stage, TV actress, sister of actress
Gabriella Grimaldi.
Death Walks in Laredo - 1966 (Mady)
Panandle Calibre .38 – 1971 (Connie
Connors/Briscott)
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