Marisa Mell

Acting

Marisa Mell

Born 1939-02-24 · Graz, Austria

Marisa Mell (24 February 1939 – 16 May 1992) was an Austrian actress who became a cult figure of 1960s Italian B-movies. She was born as Marlies Theres Moitzi in Graz, Austria. In 1963, she was involved in a violent automobile accident in France. For six hours, she lay unconscious, unaware that she nearly lost her right eye. The disfigurement extended to her lip as well. She spent the next two years undergoing plastic surgery, and no damage remained in her face, except for a distinctive curl of her upper lip. She turned down a seven-year Hollywood contract, saying that while the payment would have been great, "the contract was a whole book. I think that even to go to the toilet I would have needed a permission." In 1967, she performed the title role in the "utterly calamitous" musical Mata Hari alongside Pernell Roberts. After a preview performance in Washington, D.C. that became infamous for its numerous technical problems, producer David Merrick decided to close the production before its scheduled Broadway run. She is best known for the role of Eva Kant in Danger: Diabolik (1968). In the late 1990s, the television show MST3K brought the actress to a new generation of B-movie viewers when the film was featured on an episode. The show also spoofed another of her starring roles in the film Secret Agent Super Dragon. She died in Vienna from throat cancer in 1992, aged 53.

Acting credits

Danger: Diabolik poster
6.3

International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.

Danger: Diabolik

1968

Am Galgen hängt die Liebe poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Am Galgen hängt die Liebe

1960

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Magic Graz

1972

The Traveling Companion poster
4.8

A ruined noble decides to organize a robbery on a luxury train. He decides to get help from a busty starlet that should distract passengers ...

The Traveling Companion

1981

Under Siege poster
5.2

A band of thugs belonging to an organized crime family assaults several casinos at the same time creating death and panic in their wake. As they flee the scenes of their crimes police begin to close in on them, so they quickly hide themselves in a villa owned by a wealthy industrialist taking him and his family hostage.

Under Siege

1980

Casanova & Co. poster
3.9

While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.

Casanova & Co.

1977

Mahogany poster
5.9

An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.

Mahogany

1975

Seifenblasen poster
9.0

Leo, a young filmmaker, quarrels with the screenplay author about the explosive plot, has problems with his girlfriend Katrin, and to top it all, the department of education doesn't want to subsidize his film although the television people are interested in it. In other words, a lot of problems for Leo. An influential politician who thinks he has recognized himself in the film story is responsible for it all.

Seifenblasen

1985

Masquerade poster
5.0

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Masquerade

1965

Casanova '70 poster
6.4

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

Casanova '70

1965

One on Top of the Other poster
6.4

A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.

One on Top of the Other

1969

Seven Blood-Stained Orchids poster
6.2

A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?

Seven Blood-Stained Orchids

1972

Death Will Have Your Eyes poster
4.1

A young woman who comes to Rome and soon drifts into de facto prostitution in order to survive. She meets a misanthropic doctor and would-be poet, but soon falls in love with another man. Murder ensues and she soon finds herself being blackmailed, sexually and financially, by her husband's shady driver, who saw something he shouldn't have.

Death Will Have Your Eyes

1974

Ring of Darkness poster
4.8

Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daughter, Daria, starts showing the evil influence of dear old Dad. Convinced that she can stop the devil's power on earth, Carlotta calls upon an exorcist for help.

Ring of Darkness

1979

The Commissioner poster
9.0

In the basement of a hypothetical ministry, a man has set up a public office where he intends, for a fee, to solve any bureaucratic problem. His life becomes complicated the day he realizes that someone is persistently spying on him.

The Commissioner

1983

Nude Strike poster
7.7

Gianni Dei gets over an injury and is in a wheelchair. He spends his time watching porn and having fantasies.

Nude Strike

1983

Anyone Can Play poster
4.6

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

Anyone Can Play

1967

Gang War in Milan poster
6.7

A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.

Gang War in Milan

1973

Ben & Charlie poster
5.1

Also known as Ben & Charlie. When Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is there waiting for him. Not to welcome him, but to tell him that he does not want to hear from him again. But his wish won't be granted as the the two men constantly forced to reconnect while still hating each other's guts...

Ben & Charlie

1972

Obscene Desire poster
5.4

A young American woman moves to a large countryside villa with her newlywed Italian husband. Soon enough, strange and seemingly supernatural events begin to befall the property, as a black-gloved killer simultaneously picks up and murders prostitutes.

Obscene Desire

1978

Violent Blood Bath poster
6.1

A notoriously harsh French judge, vacationing at a luxury resort, finds his holiday interrupted when a mysterious killer begins murdering those in and around the hotel.

Violent Blood Bath

1974

The Secret of the Red Orchid poster
5.8

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

The Secret of the Red Orchid

1962

Objective: 500 Million poster
5.9

Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War. Marked by his past, he does not believe in the values of his country any more. At a loss to know what to do with his life, he agrees one day to take part in a heist set up by Pierre, a pilot, the very man who gave him away in Oran. The operation, in which Yo, a gorgeous woman, participates, consists in stealing a bag containing 55 million francs during a Paris-Bordeaux flight...

Objective: 500 Million

1966

Elisabeth - Kaiserin von Österreich poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Elisabeth - Kaiserin von Österreich

1972