Mariangela Giordano Explained

Mariangela Giordano
Birth Date:	2 September 1937
Birth Place:	Dolcedo, Imperia, Kingdom of Italy
Death Place:	Dolcedo, Imperia, Italy
Othername:	Mary Jordan
Occupation:	Actress

Mariangela Giordano (2 September 1937 – 16 July 2011) was an Italian film and television actress.

Life and career

Born in Dolcedo, Italy as Maria Angela Giordano, the daughter of a journalist, Giordano was elected Miss Liguria in 1954.^[1] Then she almost immediately started an intense film career, mainly appearing in genre films in which she was sometimes credited as Mary Jordan. She is known to cult horror movie fans for her starring roles in Giallo in Venice, Patrick Lives Again, The Devil's Daughter, Satan's Baby Doll, Burial Ground and Killer Barbys.

Since the 1980s, Giordano focused her career on television, appearing in the TV series Skipper and I ragazzi del muretto, among others.^[1] She died in Dolcedo on 16 July 2011.

Selected filmography

Il falco d'oro (1955) - Seconda domestica
Cortile (1955) - The Girl asking Gargiulo for a Lift (uncredited)
Dramma nel porto (1955)
Da qui all'eredità (1955)
La banda degli onesti (1956) - (uncredited)
Il diavolo nero (1957)
Desert Warrior (1957) - Aicha
Mensajeros de paz (1957) - Marichu
Buongiorno primo amore! (1957)
Quando gli angeli piangono (1958)
Cara de Goma (1959)
Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960) (a.k.a. Queen of the Amazons) - Amazzone
Ursus (1961)
Gli scontenti (1961)
Black City (1961) - Ragazza che si finge incinta
Romulus and the Sabines (1961)
Ursus (1960) (a.k.a. Ursus, Son of Hercules) - Annia
El reflejo del alma (1962)
Canzoni a tempo di twist (1962)
The Eye of the Needle (1963) - Carmelina Lo Niro
The Last Gun (1964)
Sette a Tebe (1964) - Serva di Cirene
A Maiden for a Prince (1965) - La marchesa spagnola
Te lo leggo negli occhi (1965)
Djurado (1966) - Dorianne
How I Learned to Love Women (1966) - Proprietaria stazione di servizio
Vengeance (1968) - Rosita
Three Crosses Not to Die (1968) - Betty Fletcher
I quattro del pater noster (1969)
A Noose for Django (1969) - Dolores Roja
The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine (1969) - Babe
The Legacy of Caine (1971)
Decameron n° 2 - Le altre novelle del Boccaccio (1972) - Ferondo's wife
Decameron n° 4 - Le belle novelle del Boccaccio (1972) - Tessa
The Lusty Wives of Canterbury (1972)
Quant'è bella la Bernarda, tutta nera, tutta calda (1975) - Eleonora (segment "Eleonora e Sigismondo")
L'altro Dio (1975) - Adriana
Don Milani (1976) - Donna
Il colpaccio (1976) - Amante di Sandro
Che dottoressa ragazzi! (1976) - Rosalia
The Last Round (1976) - Lisa's mother
Batton Story (1976) - Priscilla - mother of Stefano
Un giorno alla fine di ottobre (1977) - La segretaria di Lorenzo
Dove volano i corvi d'argento (1977) - Basilia
Moglie nuda e siciliana (1978) - Bianca
Il commissario di ferro (1978) - Signora Parolini
Malabimba – The Malicious Whore (1979) - Suor Sofia
Giallo a Venezia (1979) (a.k.a. Giallo in Venice) - Stella Randolph
Patrick Is Still Alive (1980) (a.k.a. Patrick Lives Again)
Burial Ground (1981) (a.k.a. Nights of Terror) - Evelyn
Paula Mujer de la Noche (1981)
Eroticón (1981) - Zulma Santana
Satan's Baby Doll (1982) (a.k.a. La Bimba di Satana) - Sol
Il motorino (1984)
Noi uomini duri (1987) - Teresa
Io e mia sorella (1987) - Nadia
Il volpone (1988) - Eliana Voltore
Captain Fracassa's Journey (1990)
Stasera a casa di Alice (1990) - Medium
The Devil's Daughter (1991) (a.k.a. La Secta/ The Sect) - Kathryn
Abbronzatissimi (1991) - Madre di Martina
Women in Arms (1991) - Miss Locasciulli
Ci hai rotto papà (1993) - Suor Giovanna
Let's Not Keep in Touch (1994) - Amante in 'Galline da combattimento'
Once a Year, Every Year (1994)
Killer Barbys (1996, directed by Jesus Franco) - Condesa (Countess)
Panarea (1997) - Signora Bedoni
A luci spente (2004)
Cuore sacro (2005)

Notes and References

Book: Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano - Le Attrici. Gremese Editore, 2003. 888440214X.