Sylva Koscina Death
Sylva passed away on December 26, 1994 at the age of 61 in Rome, Italy. Sylva's cause of death was breast cancer.
When did Sylva Koscina die?
December 26, 1994How did Sylva Koscina die? What was the cause of death?
Breast cancerHow old was Sylva Koscina when died?
61Where did Sylva Koscina die? What was the location of death?
Rome, Italy
Sylva Koscina Birthday and Date of Death
Sylva Koscina was born on August 22, 1933 and died on December 26, 1994. Sylva was 61 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: August 22, 1933
Date of Death: December 26, 1994
Age at Death: 61
Sylva Koscina - Biography
Yugoslavian actress Sylva Koscina was born in Zagreb on August 22, 1933. World War II proved to be catastrophic in her home country, first with the invasion by Germany and later with the Russian invasion, culminating in about a million deaths. Koscina and her family fled to Italy following the end of the war. After winning some beauty contests as a teenager, she attended the University of Naples and worked as a fashion model before becoming an actress. Her first film was the Italian comedy Are We Men or Corporals? (1955; with Toto). Koscina had acted in a string of comedies when she was cast in the peplum adventure Hercules (1958; with Steve Reeves).With the international success of Hercules, Koscina became a star. After returning for the sequel Hercules Unchained (1959; with Steve Reeves), she acted in such films as Jessica (1962; with Angie Dickinson and Maurice Chevalier), Agent 8 3/4 (1964; with Dirk Bogarde), Three Bites of the Apple (1967; with David McCallum and Tammy Grimes), and Hornets' Nest (1970; with Rock Hudson). Often appearing unclad in her later films, Koscina appeared nude in He and She (1969; with Laurence Harvey)and The House of Exorcism (1973; with Telly Savalas and Elke Sommer), among others. Sylva Koscina's film career slowed in the mid 1970s, and thereafter she appeared in films only on a sporadic basis. Koscina posed nude for Italian Playboy in 1975 at the age of 42, but the pictorial did not help her flagging film career. Spending lavishly during the earlier part of her career, she ran into cash flow problems in the mid 1970s, which necessitated selling her $2 million Italian villa that cost her $60,000 per year in upkeep alone. A Mexican marriage to producer Raimondo Castelli ended in 1971. Her last film role came in the 1994 release Kim Novak Is on the Phone. Koscina passed away in Rome on December 26, 1994, from heart problems (some sources cite br**st cancer as the cause of death) at the age of 61. She left no immediate survivors.
