Orchidea De Santis
Acting
1948-12-20 · Bari, Puglia, Italia
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.
Filmography
Eurotika!
1999 · Series
Close Friends
1992 · Movie
Arrivano i gatti
1980 · Movie
Three Under the Sheets
1979 · Movie
Ridendo e scherzando
1978 · Movie
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978 · Movie
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
1977 · Movie
L'appuntamento
1977 · Movie
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito
1977 · Movie
Rene the Cane
1977 · Movie
Under the Sheets
1976 · Movie
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976 · Movie
Una bella governante di colore
1976 · Movie
The Sweet Aunts
1975 · Movie
The Family Vice
1975 · Movie
Hurry, the Schoolgirls Are Coming!
1975 · Movie
La sensualità è un attimo di vita
1975 · Movie
L'ingenua
1975 · Movie
Love Angels
1974 · Movie
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1974 · Movie
Scusi, si potrebbe evitare il servizio militare?... No!
1974 · Movie
The Killer Wore Gloves
1974 · Movie
La nipote
1974 · Movie
Charlys Nichten
1974 · Movie
To Love Ophelia
1974 · Movie
Provaci anche tu Lionel
1973 · Movie
Tales of Erotica
1973 · Movie
The Sensual Man
1973 · Movie
The Sexbury Tales
1973 · Movie
Lady Dynamite
1973 · Movie
Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods
1972 · Movie
Le mille e una notte all'italiana
1972 · Movie
Love, Passion and Pleasure
1972 · Movie
Hot Nights of the Decameron
1972 · Movie
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
1972 · Movie
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
1972 · Movie
Prey of Vultures
1972 · Movie
Devil in the Brain
1972 · Movie
The Forbidden Decameron
1972 · Movie
Hector the Mighty
1972 · Movie
Decameroticus
1972 · Movie
The Weekend Murders
1970 · Movie
Your Sweet Body to Kill
1970 · Movie
Quelli belli... siamo noi
1970 · Movie
Invasion
1970 · Movie
Una macchia rosa
1970 · Movie
Togli le gambe dal parabrezza
1969 · Movie
The Labyrinth of Sex
1969 · Movie
Coup D'Etat
1969 · Movie
Psychopath
1968 · Movie
How I Learned to Love Women
1966 · Movie
The Battle of the Mods
1966 · Movie
Il nero
1966 · Movie
3 Avengers
1964 · Movie
These Mad, Mad Women
1964 · Movie
Snow White
Movie