Norma Bengell

 ( 1935 Births ) 

Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães d'Áurea Bengell (21 February 1935 – 9 October 2013) was a Brazilian film, stage and television actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. She appeared in several episodes of T.H.E. Cat, the first being in 1966 episode “To Kill a Priest”.

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Early life Bengell was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Career Bengell appeared in numerous international productions, including an extended period during the mid-1960s co-starring in Italian productions, in which she was usually cast as the protagonist's romantic interest. She is possibly best known for starring with Alberto Sordi in Alberto Lattuada's Mafioso (1962) and in Sergio Corbucci's The Hellbenders (1967). She had a major role as a prostitute in Anselmo Duarte's Keeper of Promises (1962), a Brazilian drama that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1963 and won the Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival in 1962. Earlier that same year, she caused major controversy after appearing nude in a scene of the Ruy Guerra film Os Cafajestes.

In 1987, she directed her first film, Eternamente Pagu, a biography of Pagu. In 1996, she directed an adaptation of José de Alencar's novel The Guarani, also titled The Guarani.

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Filmography

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Film

1959	O Homem do Sputnik	B.B	Performing a parody of Brigitte Bardot
1960	Conceição	Dalva
1961	Mulheres e Milhões	Nora Martins
1962	Mafioso	Marta
	Keeper of Promises ()	Marli
	The Unscrupulous Ones ()	Leda
	Carnival of Crime	Milly
1963	The Broken Hearts ()	Milena	Segment: "E vissero felici"
	Il mito	Anna	Second segment
	La ballata dei mariti	The Countess
1965	Mar Corrente	The Singer
Planet of the Vampires ()	Samya
The Reckless ()	Luciana
1966	As Cariocas	Paula Ribeiro de Castro	First story: "A grã-fina de Copacabana"
	The Hellbenders ()	Claire
	Captain from Toledo ()	Myriam
1967	A Espiã Que Entrou em Fria
1968	Antes, o Verão	Maria Clara
	Desesperato	Rodrigo's wife
	Edu, Coração de Ouro	Matilde	Cameo
	Ballad of a Bounty Hunter ()	Fedra/Wanda
	Juventude e Ternura
1969	O Anjo Nasceu	Housewife
	OSS 117 Takes a Vacation	Anne
	Verão de Fogo	Olga
1970	The Palace of Angels ()	Dorothy
	Of Gods and the Undead ()	Soledade
1971	A Casa Assassinada	Nina
	As Confissões de Frei Abóbora	Paula
	O Capitão Bandeira contra o Dr. Moura Brasil	Messenger
	Paixão na Praia	Débora
1972	O Demiurgo
1973	Défense de savoir
	Les soleils de l'île de Pâques	Norma
1975	Assim Era a Atlântida	Herself	Documentary
1976	Paranoia	Sílvia Riccelli
1977	Maria Bonita
	Barra Pesada
	The Deep	Madame Zero
1978	Mar de Rosas	Felicidade
	Na Boca do Mundo	Clarisse
	Mulheres de Cinema	Herself	Short film
1980	The Age of the Earth ()	Amazonas Queen
1981	Abrigo Nuclear	Lix/Professor
	Eros, o Deus do Amor	Ada
1982	Tabu	Madame Xavier
	Rio Babilônia	Madame Solange
	Tensão no Rio	Dona Dolores
1984	O Filho Adotivo	Maria Rosa
1986	A Cor do Seu Destino	Laura
	Fonte da Saudade	Mother
1987	Running Out of Luck	Lola
	A Mulher Fatal Encontra o Homem Ideal	Elegant actress
1988	Eternamente Pagú	Elsie Houston
	Fronteiras
1992	Floresta da Tijuca	Narrator	Short film
1993	Vagas para Moças de Fino Trato	Gertrudes
2002	Banquete	Beggar	Short film
2003	Glauber, o filme – Labirinto do Brasil	Herself	Documentary
2007	Anabazys
2009	Dzi Croquettes

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Director

1979	Maria Gladys, uma atriz brasileira
1980	Maria da Penha
	O Barco de Iansã
1988	Eternamente Pagu
1996	O Guarani
2003	Infinitivamente Guiomar Novaes
	Antonietta Rudge: O Êxtase em Movimento
2004	Magda Tagliaferro: O Mundo Dentro de um Piano

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Television

1966	Festival em Shell Maior	Herself / Host	1966–1967
	Noite de Gala
1967	A Sombra de Rebecca	Diana
1981	Os Imigrantes	Nena
	Os Adolescentes	Paula
1982	Memórias do Medo	Mona
1983	Parabéns pra Você	Mara
1984	Partido Alto	Irene Bessa
	Betty Faria Especial
1989	O Sexo dos Anjos	Vera Nogueira
1993	Você Decide		Season 2 Episode: "O Porteiro"
			Season 2 Episode: "Paixão Mortal"
2006	Alta Estação	Yolanda
2008-09	Toma Lá, Dá Cá	Deise Coturno	Lead role (season 2–3; 48 episodes)

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Death Bengell died from lung cancer aged 78 in Rio de Janeiro on 9 October 2013.

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