Orchidea De Santis
Acting • Born 1948-12-20
Biography
Orchidea De Santis, pseudonym of Orchidea De Sanctis (Bari, December 20, 1948), is an Italian actress. Of Salento origins but born in Bari due to her father's work as an officer in the Navy, she moved with her family, who ran a hotel in the capital of Puglia, first to Gallipoli and then to Rome, following her sister who was sixteen years older. At the beginning she was also a singer and, later, a theater actress. She has ranged from cinema to radio, from theater to music, until arriving on television. From 2006 to 2013 she managed a blog. She collaborates with various animal rights and environmental associations. Active especially in the Seventies, she was an interpreter of the Italian sexy comedy, initially mainly in costume and with a Boccaccian setting. Her presence in Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno is curious, a film in which, for script needs, she was made up to appear ugly. In 1979, her film career came to an abrupt end following a serious injury on the set of Carlo Vanzina's film Arrivano i gatti when, due to an accidental fall into a trap door, she broke her elbow (which was later completely surgically reconstructed), risking permanent damage to her entire arm.
Filmography
57 credits
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
Movie • 1972
Sandy Christian
To Love Ophelia
Movie • 1974
Trieste - blonde prostitute
Prey of Vultures
Movie • 1972
Janet Sullivan
Two Sons of Ringo
Movie • 1966
Marisol
L'ingenua
Movie • 1975
Susy
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Movie • 1974
Jolanda, la Sposa
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Movie • 1978
sorella di Vilma e Vera
Three Under the Sheets
Movie • 1979
Rosita, la domestica (segment "Sabatto mattina")
The Sweet Aunts
Movie • 1975
Farmer
Under the Sheets
Movie • 1976
Nurse Italia
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
Movie • 1976
Bastiana
Quelli belli... siamo noi
Movie • 1970
Elisabetta Castrosalvo
How I Learned to Love Women
Movie • 1966
Agnes
Love Angels
Movie • 1974
Benedetta
Your Sweet Body to Kill
Movie • 1970
Elena Sanders
Rene the Cane
Movie • 1977
Kim
Ridendo e scherzando
Movie • 1978
Dalia Casali
Love, Passion and Pleasure
Movie • 1972
Dinda
Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Movie • 1972
The Prostitute
Hector the Mighty
Movie • 1972
Briseide
The Labyrinth of Sex
Movie • 1969
Anna
Una bella governante di colore
Movie • 1976
Santina
Hot Nights of the Decameron
Movie • 1972
Peronella
The Family Vice
Movie • 1975
Marisa
Hurry, the Schoolgirls Are Coming!
Movie • 1975
Nadia
Close Friends
Movie • 1992
Elena
The Sexbury Tales
Movie • 1973
Amanda
La nipote
Movie • 1974
Doris - The Maid
Decameroticus
Movie • 1972
Wife of Ciacco
Snow White
Movie
Tales of Erotica
Movie • 1973
Lisa Martini (segment "The Trick")
The Forbidden Decameron
Movie • 1972
Tessa
Psychopath
Movie • 1968
Manuela, Nyorkos Tochter
The Sensual Man
Movie • 1973
una prostituta
L'appuntamento
Movie • 1977
moglie del collega
These Mad, Mad Women
Movie • 1964
Dora ('Pochi ma buoni')
La sensualità è un attimo di vita
Movie • 1975
Wife of Franco
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Movie • 1977
Teresa, moglie di Toni
Arrivano i gatti
Movie • 1980
attrice del film erotico
Togli le gambe dal parabrezza
Movie • 1969
Charlys Nichten
Movie • 1974
Dominique
Una macchia rosa
Movie • 1970
Nadia
Le mille e una notte all'italiana
Movie • 1972
Invasion
Movie • 1970
Ella
Coup D'Etat
Movie • 1969
Girl with glasses
3 Avengers
Movie • 1964
Blonde Girl
Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods
Movie • 1972
Viola
Devil in the Brain
Movie • 1972
Caterina
The Weekend Murders
Movie • 1970
Evelyn, the maid
The Killer Wore Gloves
Movie • 1974
Shirley
Il nero
Movie • 1966
The Battle of the Mods
Movie • 1966
Yasmine
Lady Dynamite
Movie • 1973
Provaci anche tu Lionel
Movie • 1973
Anna Tredicesimo
Scusi, si potrebbe evitare il servizio militare?... No!
Movie • 1974
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito
Movie • 1977
Doris
Eurotika!
TV • 1999
Self