Pina Bottin

Giuseppina "Pina" Bottin (17 March 1933 – 1 August 2024) was an Italian actress. She worked in various Italian films and television programs from 1953 to 1970.

Biography After having been noticed in a beauty contest, in 1953 Bottin made her acting debut in Empty Eyes. Bottin often played the role of a ingénue (an endearingly innocent young woman), either from Rome as in A Hero of Our Times, or from Venice as in The Seducer. During her career, she alternated main roles in B-movies and supporting roles in major productions.

Partial filmography

Films

Empty Eyes (Il sole negli occhi), directed by Antonio Pietrangeli (1953) The Walk (La passeggiata), directed by Renato Rascel (1953) Mizar (Sabotaggio in mare), directed by Francesco De Robertis (1954) Marriage (Il matrimonio), directed by Antonio Petrucci (1954) The Seducer (Il seduttore), directed by Franco Rossi (1954) The Bachelor (Lo scapolo), directed by Antonio Pietrangeli (1955) Tua per la vita, directed by Sergio Grieco (1955) A Hero of our Times (Un eroe dei nostri tempi), directed by Mario Monicelli (1955) Buonanotte... avvocato!, directed by Giorgio Bianchi (1955) Da qui all'eredità, directed by Riccardo Freda (1955) Allow Me, Daddy! (Mi permette, babbo!), directed by Mario Bonnard (1956) Cantando sotto le stelle, directed by Marino Girolami (1956) The Intruder (L'intrusa), directed by Raffaello Matarazzo (1956) La ragazza di piazza San Pietro, directed by Piero Costa (1958) The Naked Maja, directed by Henry Koster and Mario Russo (1958) Gagliardi e pupe, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero (1958) The Pirate of the Black Hawk (Il pirata dello sparviero nero), directed by Sergio Grieco (1958) Hannibal (Annibale), directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Edgar G. Ulmer (1959)

Voice acting Fiorella Betti in Tua per la vita, Annibale Franca Dominici in Il sole negli occhi Adriana Parrella in Lo scapolo Dhia Cristiani in La ragazza di San Pietro

Television Bottin took part in a number of editions of Carosello: In 1957 with Nino Besozzi, Fanny Marchiò, Ferruccio Amendola and Munaretto; In 1959 with Gianni Caiafa and Fausto Tommei; in 1961 and 1964 with Serena Cantalupi and James Turnbull.