Norma Bengell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães D´Áurea Bengell (born September 21, 1935 in Rio de Janeiro - October 9, 2013), best known as Norma Bengell, was a Brazilian film and television actress, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter. Active in the film industry since 1959, Bengell has appeared in numerous international productions, including an extended period during the mid-1960s co-starring in Italian productions, in which she was usually cast as the protagonist's romantic interest. She is possibly best known for starring with Barry Sullivan in Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965) and in Sergio Corbucci's spaghetti western The Hellbenders (1967). She had a major role as a prostitute in Anselmo Duarte's Keeper of Promises (1962), a Brazilian drama that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1963 and won the Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival in 1962. Earlier that same year, she caused major controversy after appearing fully nude in a scene of the Ruy Guerra film Os Cafajestes. For that, she is regarded as the first mainstream actress of her country to appear fully naked on film. On 1996 she directed her first film, an adaptation of José de Alencar's masterpiece The Guarani. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norma Bengell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2015 · J. Carlos - O Cronista do Rio as Ela mesma
- 2011 · Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · Dzi Croquettes as Self
- 2008 · As Mulheres no Cinema Brasileiro as Apresentadora
- 2007 · Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha as
- 2007 · Toma Lá, Dá Cá as Deise Coturno
- 2005 · Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Celebridade as
- 2003 · Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth as Self
- 2002 · Banquete as
- 1997 · Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self
- 1993 · Vagas Para Moças de Fino Trato as Gertrudes
- 1989 · O Sexo dos Anjos as Vera
- 1987 · The Colour of His Destiny as Laura
- 1987 · Eternamente Pagu as Elsie Houston
- 1987 · No Tempo de Glauber as
- 1987 · Running Out of Luck as
- 1987 · The Femme Fatale Meets the Ideal Man as
- 1985 · Fonte da Saudade as
- 1984 · Tensão no Rio as
- 1984 · Partido Alto as Irene
- 1984 · O Filho Adotivo as Maria Rosa
- 1983 · Tabu as
- 1983 · Parabéns pra Você as Mara
- 1982 · Rio Babilônia as Solange
- 1981 · Nuclear Shelter as Lix
- 1981 · Eros, the God of Love as
- 1980 · The Age of the Earth as Rainha das Amazonas
- 1979 · Maria Gladys, Uma Atriz Brasileira as (voice)
- 1979 · Na Boca do Mundo as Clarisse
- 1978 · Mulheres de Cinema as Self
- 1977 · Sea of Roses as Felicidade
- 1977 · The Abyss as Madame Zero
- 1976 · Paranóia as
- 1975 · Assim Era a Atlântida as
- 1973 · Défense de savoir as
- 1972 · The Suns of Easter Island as Norma
- 1972 · The Demiurge as
- 1971 · As Confissões de Frei Abóbora as
- 1971 · Paixão na Praia as
- 1971 · O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil as Mensageira
- 1971 · The Murdered House as Nina
- 1970 · Of Gods and the Undead as Soledad
- 1970 · The Palace of Angels as Dorothy
- 1970 · OSS 117 Takes a Vacation as Anne
- 1969 · The Angel Was Born as
- 1968 · Before, the Summer as Maria Clara
- 1968 · I Do Not Forgive... I Kill! as Fedra/Wanda
- 1968 · Desesperato as
- 1968 · Juventude e Ternura as
- 1968 · Edu, Coração de Ouro as Matilde
- 1967 · A Espiã que Entrou em Fria as
- 1967 · Mar Corrente as A Singer
- 1967 · A Sombra de Rebecca as Diana
- 1967 · The Hellbenders as Claire
- 1966 · As Cariocas as
- 1965 · Planet of the Vampires as Sanya
- 1965 · La violenza e l'amore as Anna
- 1965 · The Captain from Toledo as Myriam
- 1965 · The Reckless as Luciana
- 1964 · The Constancy of Reason as Ivana
- 1964 · Men and Women as Mara
- 1963 · I cuori infranti as Milena (segment "E vissero felici")
- 1963 · The Ballad of Husbands as
- 1962 · Mafioso as Marta
- 1962 · Carnival of Crime as Model
- 1962 · The Given Word as Marli
- 1962 · The Unscrupulous Ones as Leda
- 1961 · Mulheres & Milhões as
- 1960 · Conceição as
- 1959 · The Man of The Sputnik as Bê Bê, espiã da França