Bella Cortez

Acting

Bella Cortez

Born

1943-11-30 (82)

Place of birth

Oriente, Cuba

Known for

Acting

Credits

10 titles

Alicia Paneque was spotted by an Italian film producer visiting Cuba. She accepted the proposal and moved to Italy. Her first release was Primo Zeglio's The Seven Revenges (1961). Cortez played niece to Orson Welles's character and formed "an attractive pair of young lovers" with Luciano Marin in the international film The Tartars (1961). The same year, she was paired opposite Gordon Mitchell in the Seven Arts production The Giant of Metropolis (1961), directed by Umberto Scarpelli. They appeared together in two more films; Vulcan Son of Jupiter (1962) and Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens (1964). Cortez's characters were that of and Greco-Roman mythological Aetna an Arabian princess, respe…

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 10 titles

The Tartars poster
6.0

The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to accompany the Tartars on a campaign against the Slavs, there is an explosion of violence. After Oleg kills the Tartar leader and kidnaps his daughter, the dead man's brother, Burandai, retaliates by holding Oleg's wife, Helga, hostage. The stalemate can be resolved only on the battlefield.

The Tartars

1961

The Giant of Metropolis poster
4.7

Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality.

The Giant of Metropolis

1961

Challenge the Devil poster
3.4

A group of young people happen upon an old man in a castle who turns out to be the devil.

Challenge the Devil

1963

The Seven Revenges poster
6.8

The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy.

The Seven Revenges

1961

Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens poster
5.3

A rebel leader returns to his city for a final confrontation with the evil king he is fighting. However, he finds himself attracted to the king's beautiful niece.

Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens

1964

F.B.I. chiama Istanbul poster
10.0

The members of a gang of drug dealers are killed one by one. Clues lead to an elegant villa on the Bosporus. The Turkish police knows almost everything, but only the FBI man from the USA takes action.

F.B.I. chiama Istanbul

1964

Taur the Mighty poster
3.7

The warlike men of Kixos murder the king of Surupak and abduct his two daughters, Jia and Tuja. Jia's bridegroom Syros asks the mighty warrior Taurus for assistance. Taurus faithful companion Ubaratuta will give Taurus a hand to defeat the warlike tribe.

Taur the Mighty

1963

Vulcan, Son of Giove poster
3.8

A superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.

Vulcan, Son of Giove

1962

The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba poster
7.0

A wizard summons Ali Baba to transport a sacred crown to a nearby country. An evil ruler has taken over the land, and the crown is needed to free the people from his influence.

The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba

1962

Appuntamento a Dallas poster
7.0

A group of retired crime leaders is meeting to discuss the death threats they are all getting.

Appuntamento a Dallas

1964