Anna Manduchi

[Johan Melle]

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

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1961

1. Il mantenuto (uncredited) .... Nurse that overhears at the door
   
   1962
2. I motorizzati (uncredited) .... Woman at insurance office
3. L'attico (uncredited) .... Woman in bar
   
   1965
4. Agente 077: missione Bloody Mary (uncredited) .... Woman in plastic surgery photos
   
   1966
5. Come imparai ad amare le donne (uncredited) .... Nun with rifle
6. Ray Master, l'inafferrabile (uncredited) .... Bar customer
7. Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? (uncredited) .... Dancing woman at the nightclub
   
   1967
8. Bill il taciturno (uncredited) .... Mrs. Sanders
9. Come rubare la corona d'Inghilterra (uncredited) .... General Headwood's wife
10. I giorni dell'ira (uncredited) .... Woman in the casino
11. Il fischio al naso (uncredited) .... Slumber party guest
    
    1968
12. Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (uncredited) .... Woman at the reunion party for the 293rd Squadron
13. Candy (uncredited) .... Woman at the post-op party
14. Chimera (uncredited) .... Sister who prays on her knees
15. I 2 deputati (uncredited) .... Woman watching the debate on TV
16. Vendo cara la pelle (uncredited) .... Mrs. Shane
    
    1969
17. Femmine insaziabili (uncredited) .... Woman at the funeral service
    
    1970
18. FBI - Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore (TV series) - episode 1: "Sparita il giorno delle nozze" (uncredited) .... Woman at funeral
    
    1971
19. ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (uncredited) .... Restaurant diner
    
    1972
20. Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno (uncredited) .... Casino player
21. Il grande duello (uncredited) .... Onlooker at the hanging
    
    1973
22. La proprietà non è più un furto (uncredited) .... Woman at the security equipment demonstration
23. Paolo il caldo (uncredited) .... Bar customer
24. Studio legale per una rapina (uncredited) .... Woman at the fashion show
25. Vogliamo i colonnelli (uncredited) .... Woman at the funeral
    
    1974
26. Commissariato di notturna (uncredited) .... Café customer
27. La polizia chiede aiuto (uncredited) .... Nurse
28. Le scomunicate di San Valentino (uncredited) .... Nun
29. Pane e cioccolata (uncredited) .... Restaurant cashier
30. Paolo il freddo (uncredited) .... Party guest
    
    1975
31. Diagnosi (TV series) (credited) .... role?
32. La poliziotta fa carriera (uncredited) .... Woman in the cinema
33. Libera, amore mio! (uncredited) .... Audience member at the school performance
    
    1976
34. La professoressa di scienze naturali (uncredited) .... Party guest
35. Roma a mano armata (uncredited) .... Casino player
36. Roma, l'altra faccia della violenza (uncredited) .... Passerby outside the florist shop
    
    1977
37. Le notti porno nel mondo (uncredited) .... Woman at nightclub
    
    1978
38. La banda del Gobbo (uncredited) .... Woman at nightclub
    
    1981
39. Una vacanza del cactus (uncredited) .... Woman with dogs
    
    1982
40. Dio li fa e poi li accoppia (uncredited) .... Woman at the celebration
41. Grand Hotel Excelsior (uncredited) .... Hotel guest
    
    1983
42. Acqua e sapone (uncredited) .... Spectatress of the fashion show / Party guest
    
    1984
43. Delitto al Blue Gay (uncredited) .... Blue Gay client
    
    1988
44. Casa mia, casa mia... (uncredited) .... Bar customer

[Johan Melle]

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

[Johan Melle]

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)

[Johan Melle]

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!

[Johan Melle]

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

[Johan Melle]

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)

As a woman at the funeral in Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973) - identification by Ghibarian

Nice little brief role as the cashier at the restaurant in Pane e cioccolata (1974) - identification by Ciavazzaro

Anna as a hospital nurse in the great giallo La polizia chiede aiuto (1974) - identification by Ghibarian

And as one of the nuns in the nunsploitation film Le scomunicate di San Valentino (1974)

[Johan Melle]

Anna gambling at the casino in Roma a mano armata (1976)

A rather displeased-looking Anna doesn't appreciate the overly sexy nightclub act she's watching in Le notti porno nel mondo (1977)

Brief role but great close-up as a woman at the nightclub in La banda del Gobbo (1978) - identification by Ciavazzaro

No good shots but this woman with the dogs is Anna for sure in Una vacanza del cactus (1981)

[Emiliano]

La poliziotta fa carriera (1975)

[Johan Melle]

Thanks, Emiliano!

And I've now discovered another 1960s role for Anna! Here she is watching the debate on TV in I 2 deputati (1968)

[Johan Melle]

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) as Woman at the reunion party for the 293rd Squadron

La proprietà non è più un furto (1973) as Woman at the security equipment demonstration