Pina Bottin

Pina Bottin
Born	(1933-03-17)17 March 1933 Padua, Italy
Died	July or August 2024 (aged 91) Padua, Italy
Years active	1953—1964
Notable work	Hannibal (1959), Empty Eyes (1953)

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

Biography

Bottin often played the role of a ingénue, either from Rome as in A Hero of Our Times, or from Venice, as in The Seducer. On 1 August 2024, it was announced that she died at her home in the Sacra Famiglia neighborhood of Padua at the age of 91.

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.