Luciana Paluzzi

Luciana Paluzzi (dead) in Thunderball.

Luciana Paluzzi (1937 - )

Film Deaths:

• Tank Force (No Time to Die) (1958) [Carola]: Machine-gunned by a Nazi soldier. (Thanks to Bill)

• The Tiger of Eschnapur (Tiger of Bengal) (1959) [Baharani]: Stabbed to death during a magic act when an assassin (impersonating the magician) plunges several swords into a basket with Luciana inside. (Note: The Tiger of Eschnapur and its sequel, The Indian Tomb, were also edited together into a single shorter movie, Journey to the Lost City. I don't know whether the condensed version still includes Luciana's death scene.) (Thanks to Crimson Ghost)

• To Trap a Spy (1964) [Angela]: Machine-gunned. (I haven't seen this movie myself; reports indicate that it was edited from the TV episode The Man from UNCLE: The Vulcan Affair, combined with original footage. Luciana's character appears only in the movie's new footage and not in the original episode.) (Thanks to Crimson Ghost and Rodzilla)

• Thunderball (1965) [Fiona Volpe]: Shot in the back by one of her own henchmen when Sean Connery maneuvers her into the line of fire while dancing with her.

• Chuka (1967) [Veronica Kleits]: Shot in the back with an arrow. (Thanks to Bill)

• The Venetian Affair (1967) [Giulia Almeranti]: Shot in the head (off-camera) in the crossfire of a shoot-out between Robert Vaughn and an enemy agent, while she cradles Roger C. Carmel's body in her arms. Her body is shown afterwards when Robert looks back after the shoot-out and discovers that she's been hit.

• Forgotten Pistolero (Il Pistolero dell'Ave Maria; The Gunman of Ave Maria) (1969) [Anna Carrasco]: Shot in the stomach inside a burning house. (Thanks to Ironmaster)

• 99 Women (Der Heisse tod; Island of Despair; Women's Penitentiary XII) (1969) [Natalie Mendoza]: Dies of an illness in prison. (Thanks to Shehzad Burney)

• Cometogether (1971) [Lisa]: Killed in a car crash (along with Tony Anthony and Rosemary Dexter) when their car goes over a cliff. (Thanks to Dick Hertz)

• The Italian Connection (La Mala ordina; Black Kingpin) (1972) [Eva Lalli]: Deliberately hit with a car by Henry Silva, after she shouts a warning to Mario Adorf. (Thanks to Andrea)

• Tragic Ceremony (Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea; Tragic Ceremony at Villa Alexander) (1972) [Lady Alexander]: Stabbed in the stomach with her own knife during a struggle with Maximo Valverde, when he tries to stop her from killing Camille Keaton. She later reappears as a ghost. (Thanks to Johan and Dick Hertz)

• The Two Faces of Fear (Coartada en disco rojo) (1972) [Elena Carli]: Injected with a drug overdose by George Hilton while she's lying in her hospital bed. (Thanks to Johan)

TV Deaths:

• The Man from UNCLE: The Four Steps Affair (1965) [Angela]: Machine-gunned. (I haven't seen this episode myself; reports indicate that it combined footage from To Trap a Spy with original scenes, so I'm assuming that Luciana's death scenes should be identical.) (Thanks to Crimson Ghost and Rodzilla)

Noteworthy Connections:

Ex-Mrs. Brett Halsey

Gallery:

Luciana Paluzzi getting shot in “Thunderball”.

Luciana Paluzzi in The Italian Connection