Orchidea De Santis
Biography
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.
Known For
Under the Sheets
How I Learned to Love Women
The Family Vice
Una bella governante di colore
Eurotika!
The Sweet Aunts
Hurry, the Schoolgirls Are Coming!
La nipote
All Movies (56)
- Close Friends1992 · as Elena
- Arrivano i gatti1980 · as attrice del film erotico
- Three Under the Sheets1979 · as Rosita, la domestica (segment "Sabatto mattina")
- Ridendo e scherzando1978 · as Dalia Casali
- Tanto va la gatta al lardo...1978 · as sorella di Vilma e Vera
- Ride bene... chi ride ultimo1977 · as Teresa, moglie di Toni
- L'appuntamento1977 · as moglie del collega
- Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito1977 · as Doris
- Rene the Cane1977 · as Kim
- Under the Sheets1976 · as Nurse Italia
- San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women1976 · as Bastiana
- Una bella governante di colore1976 · as Santina
- The Sweet Aunts1975 · as Farmer
- The Family Vice1975 · as Marisa
- Hurry, the Schoolgirls Are Coming!1975 · as Nadia
- La sensualità è un attimo di vita1975 · as Wife of Franco
- L'ingenua1975 · as Susy
- Love Angels1974 · as Benedetta
- To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday1974 · as Jolanda, la Sposa
- Scusi, si potrebbe evitare il servizio militare?... No!1974
- The Killer Wore Gloves1974 · as Shirley
- La nipote1974 · as Doris - The Maid
- Charlys Nichten1974 · as Dominique
- To Love Ophelia1974 · as Trieste - blonde prostitute
- Provaci anche tu Lionel1973 · as Anna Tredicesimo
- Tales of Erotica1973 · as Lisa Martini (segment "The Trick")
- The Sensual Man1973 · as una prostituta
- The Sexbury Tales1973 · as Amanda
- Lady Dynamite1973
- Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods1972 · as Viola
- Le mille e una notte all'italiana1972
- Love, Passion and Pleasure1972 · as Dinda
- Hot Nights of the Decameron1972 · as Peronella
- Seven Murders for Scotland Yard1972 · as Sandy Christian
- Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?1972 · as The Prostitute
- Prey of Vultures1972 · as Janet Sullivan
- Devil in the Brain1972 · as Caterina
- The Forbidden Decameron1972 · as Tessa
- Hector the Mighty1972 · as Briseide
- Decameroticus1972 · as Wife of Ciacco
- The Weekend Murders1970 · as Evelyn, the maid
- Your Sweet Body to Kill1970 · as Elena Sanders
- Quelli belli... siamo noi1970 · as Elisabetta Castrosalvo
- Invasion1970 · as Ella
- Una macchia rosa1970 · as Nadia
- Togli le gambe dal parabrezza1969
- The Labyrinth of Sex1969 · as Anna
- Coup D'Etat1969 · as Girl with glasses
- Psychopath1968 · as Manuela, Nyorkos Tochter
- Two Sons of Ringo1966 · as Marisol
- How I Learned to Love Women1966 · as Agnes
- The Battle of the Mods1966 · as Yasmine
- Il nero1966
- 3 Avengers1964 · as Blonde Girl
- These Mad, Mad Women1964 · as Dora ('Pochi ma buoni')
- Snow White—
All TV Shows (1)
- Eurotika!1999 · as Self