[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Maria Grazia Buccella was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on August 15, 1940. Buccella won the Miss Trento, Miss Venice, and Miss Italy beauty pageants, and placed third in the Miss Europe 1959 competition.
Grazia was busy throughout the 1960s in numerous Italian and European films. She screen tested for the role of Domino Derval in the 1965 James Bond film “Thunderball”. (The role, originally an Italian woman named Dominetta Petacchi, went to French actress Claudine Auger). That same year Buccella appeared in the Dino Risi-directed film “Il Gaucho” which starred Vittorio Gassman; “Gentleman de Cocody”, starring Jean Marais; “The Secret Agents”, starring Gassman and Henry Fonda; and the Dino DeLaurentiis production “Menage All'Italiana”. But she’s usually remembered as 'Miss Okra' in the Peter Sellers film “After the Fox” (1966).
Buccella was featured on the cover of the July 1977 Italian edition of Playboy magazine. She retired from films in 1979, although she made two small appearances in the late 1980s and a final appearance in the 2000 television series ‘Hotel Otello’.
Grazia recorded four 45 rpm records between 1969 and 1981.
Grazia appeared in one Spaghetti westerns: “Villa Rides!” in 1967 she plays the role of Fina and she was to appear in another western “Casanova West” also in 1967 but it was never made.
BUCCELLA, Grazia (aka Grazia Maria Buccella, Grazia
Bucella, Maria Bucella) (Maria Grazia Buccella)
[8/15/1940, Milan, Lombardy, Italy -
] – model, film, TV actress, singer. Miss Trento, Miss Venice, Miss
Italy [1959].
Casanova West – 1967 [film was never made]
Villa Rides! – 1967 (Fina)
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