Catherine Spaak

Catherine Spaak (3 April 1945 – 17 April 2022) was an actress and singer.

Personal life

Spaak was born at Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She was married four times. She married her last husband, Vladimiro Tusellie, in 2013. Spaak died on 17 April 2022 at the age of 77.

Spouses

• Fabrizio Capucci (m. 1963; div. 1971)​
• Johnny Dorelli (m. 1972; div. 1978)​
• Daniel Rey (m. 1993; div. 2010)​
• Vladimiro Tuselli (m. 2013)

Film career

Spaak spent most of her career in Italy, where she became a teenage star. From age 15 to 18, Spaak was the lead actress in at least 12 movies. As an adult, she appeared in many comedies and a few dramas from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. Most of them were for the Italian film industry, with some Hollywood or international productions. Among her most notable titles are Circle of Love (1964, directed by Roger Vadim), The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965, starring Marcello Mastroianni), The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1966, written by Age & Scarpelli), Adultery Italian Style (1966), Hotel (1967), the sex comedy The Libertine (1969), Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969, with Claudia Cardinale), the drama The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971, written and directed by Dario Argento), the nunsploitation film Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), the controversial My Darling Slave (1973), the western Take a Hard Ride (1975), Sunday Lovers (1980), Miele di donna (1981) and Alice (2010, written and directed by Oreste Crisostomi).

Singing career

As a singer, Spaak was regarded by some as the Italian equivalent of French chanteuse Françoise Hardy. Spaak recorded some of Hardy songs in 1963 for the DET label under the direction of Ezio Leoni, who previously worked with Hardy.

Selected filmography

• Sweet Deceptions (1960)
• Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
• Crazy Desire (1961)
• Three Faces of Sin (1961)
• Il Sorpasso (1962)
• Of Wayward Love (1962)
• Eighteen in the Sun (1962)
• The Girl from Parma (1963)
• The Empty Canvas (1963)
• The Warm Life (1963)
• Three Nights of Love (1964)
• Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)
• Circle of Love (1964)
• Made in Italy (1965)
• The Man, the Woman and the Money (1965)
• The Incredible Army of Brancaleone (1965)
• Break Up (1965)
• Madamigella di Maupin (1966)
• Adultery Italian Style (1966)
• Hotel (1967)
• A Complicated Girl (1968)
• The Libertine (1968)
• If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
• Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)
• The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
• Ripped Off (1972)
• Cause of Divorce (1972)
• Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
• Dear Parents (1973)
• My Darling Slave (1973)
• La via dei babbuini (1974)
• Take a Hard Ride (1975)
• Febbre da cavallo (1976)
• Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi (1978)
• Catherine and I (1980)
• Sunday Lovers (1980)
• The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
• Miele di donna (1981)
• Claretta (1984)
• Secret Scandal (1989)
• Une famille formidable (TV, 1993)
• Alice (2010)
• Zen (TV, 2011)