Anna Manduchi

Post by **Johan Melle** » 28/08/2018, 23:30

Anna Manduchi in a fotoromanzo from 1969

Anna Manduchi was a very well-known character actress in fotoromanzi, who started her career in the early 1960s, it seems. She worked for the famous fotoromanzo publisher Lancio from 1963 until 1999, appearing in many hundreds of fotoromanzi, including several big and important roles.

In addition to her career in fotoromanzi, Anna also appeared in films and on television. The biggest role we've been able to find for her was her part as Mrs. Shane in the spaghetti western Vendo cara la pelle (1968), and she also has a credited role in the ultra rare TV series Diagnosi (1975).

According to this post in the Lancio forum, Anna died in August 2008.

FILMOGRAPHY

1961

I fratelli corsi (uncredited) .... Guest at the ball
Il mantenuto (uncredited) .... Nurse that overhears at the door

1962
I motorizzati (uncredited) .... Woman at insurance office
L'attico (uncredited) .... Woman in bar

1965
Agente 077: missione Bloody Mary (uncredited) .... Woman in plastic surgery photos

1966
Come imparai ad amare le donne (uncredited) .... Nun with rifle
Ray Master, l'inafferrabile (uncredited) .... Bar customer
Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? (uncredited) .... Dancing woman at the nightclub

1967
Bill il taciturno (uncredited) .... Mrs. Sanders
Come rubare la corona d'Inghilterra (uncredited) .... General Headwood's wife
I giorni dell'ira (uncredited) .... Woman in the casino
Il fischio al naso (uncredited) .... Slumber party guest

1968
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (uncredited) .... Woman at the reunion party for the 293rd Squadron
Candy (uncredited) .... Woman at the post-op party
Chimera (uncredited) .... Sister who prays on her knees
I 2 deputati (uncredited) .... Woman watching the debate on TV
Vendo cara la pelle (uncredited) .... Mrs. Shane

1969
Femmine insaziabili (uncredited) .... Woman at the funeral service

1970
FBI - Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore (TV series) - episode 1: "Sparita il giorno delle nozze" (uncredited) .... Woman at funeral

1971
...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (uncredited) .... Restaurant diner

1972
Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno (uncredited) .... Casino player
Il grande duello (uncredited) .... Onlooker at the hanging

1973
La proprietà non è più un furto (uncredited) .... Woman at the security equipment demonstration
Paolo il caldo (uncredited) .... Bar customer
Sepolta viva (uncredited) .... Noblewoman at the spring festival
Studio legale per una rapina (uncredited) .... Woman at the fashion show
Vogliamo i colonnelli (uncredited) .... Woman at the funeral

1974
Commissariato di notturna (uncredited) .... Café customer
La polizia chiede aiuto (uncredited) .... Nurse
Le scomunicate di San Valentino (uncredited) .... Nun
Pane e cioccolata (uncredited) .... Restaurant cashier
Paolo il freddo (uncredited) .... Party guest

1975
Diagnosi (TV series) (credited) .... role?
La poliziotta fa carriera (uncredited) .... Woman in the cinema
Libera, amore mio! (uncredited) .... Audience member at the school performance

1976
La professoressa di scienze naturali (uncredited) .... Party guest
Roma a mano armata (uncredited) .... Casino player
Roma, l'altra faccia della violenza (uncredited) .... Passerby outside the florist shop

1977
Le notti porno nel mondo (uncredited) .... Woman at nightclub

1978
La banda del Gobbo (uncredited) .... Woman at nightclub

1981
Una vacanza del cactus (uncredited) .... Woman with dogs

1982
Dio li fa e poi li accoppia (uncredited) .... Woman at the celebration
Grand Hotel Excelsior (uncredited) .... Hotel guest

1983
Acqua e sapone (uncredited) .... Spectatress of the fashion show / Party guest

1984
Delitto al Blue Gay (uncredited) .... Blue Gay client

1988
Casa mia, casa mia... (uncredited) .... Bar customer

Post by **Johan Melle** » 31/08/2018, 23:02

Throughout her long career in fotoromanzi, Anna Manduchi usually played the heroine's mother (and the grandmother when she got older) or the kind-hearted maid. She almost always played sympathetic characters. Here are some examples:

Charme N. 125: "Peccato di donna" (June 1966) - with Peter Lee Lawrence (who used the Pierre Clement in fotoromanzi)

Sofia N. 30: "Io ti darò tutto il mondo" (September 1966) - as Carla Romanelli's mother

Le avventure di Lucky Martin N. 21: "Diana rapita" (June 1970) - with our friend Nando Sarlo

Letizia N. 187: "Ascolta: È il vento" (April 1972)

Anna as a nun in "L'orso azzurro", a continuing fotoromanzo published in the magazine Sogno from 1972 to 1973

Charme N. 291: "Quando i fiori non sorridono più" (February 1973) - typical role as a maid

Post by **Johan Melle** » 31/08/2018, 23:08

And some more fotoromanzo roles - now in color.

Kolossal N. 18: "Canaglia dagli occhi neri" (May 1976) - another maid role

Uncredited role for Anna as a nun in Le avventure di Jacques Douglas N. 177: "Vorrei che lui ti somigliasse" (June 1980) - one of the last instalments in the famed Jacques Douglas serial

Anna in the very prestigious all-star cast fotoromanzo "I girasoli" (1982), which was published in 16 parts in various Lancio magazines. And of course she plays the kind-hearted maid

Kiss N. 66: "Come un filo d'argento" (May 1983)

And finally a nice but not quite so sympathetic role as Leslie D'Olive's grandmother in Fotomusic N. 3: "Susan non è più sola" (June 1986)

Post by **Johan Melle** » 31/08/2018, 23:23

And now the film roles. The earliest ones found so far are from 1962.

Anna is visible in the background here in L'attico (1962) - pics and identification by Ciavazzaro

Anna also appears in I motorizzati (1962) - in a scene at the insurance office together with Sandro Mondini and Ugo Mari

She also has a very funny performance (if one can call it that) in the spy movie Agente 077: Missione Bloody Mary (1965). There is a scene at a clinic for plastic surgery where Lella Cattaneo appears as a woman who wants a nose job

Helga Liné is telling Lella about how they can change the shape of the nose and she shows Lella several photos of another woman who has had surgery on her nose - and the woman in the photos is none other than Anna Manduchi!

Post by **Johan Melle** » 31/08/2018, 23:34

The most substantial movie role discovered for Anna so far is the western Vendo cara le pelle (1968). She's uncredited but has a pretty good role as Mrs. Shane

Anna can also be spotted in a few other westerns.
Here in I giorni dell'ira (1967) as a woman who enters the casino and sits across from Lee Van Cleef - pic by Carlos

She's also in the restaurant scene (together with countless of her generici colleagues) in the famous Spencer/Hill western comedy ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (1971)

Another (very brief) 1960s role in Femmine insaziabili (1969)

And visible for a few brief seconds at the funeral in the TV series FBI - Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore - episode 1: "Sparita il giorno delle nozze" (1970) - wearing the same hat she has in Femmine insaziabili, I think

Post by **Johan Melle** » 31/08/2018, 23:45

And now some 1970s roles. Seems Anna was at her most prolific in the mid 1970s.

Here she is together with Attilio Pelegatti as a woman at the fashion show in Studio legale per una rapina (1973)