# Nieves Navarro

Nieves Navarro García (born 11 November 1938) is a retired Spanish actress and fashion model. She worked extensively in Italian cinema appearing alongside actors such as Totò and Lino Banfi in the 1960's and 1970's. She later adopted the Anglicized stage name Susan Scott (or Suzanne Scott) for many of her productions after 1969.
Navarro was also one of the first female stars of the Spaghetti Western genre making her feature film debut in A Pistol for Ringo and its sequel The Return of Ringo along with later appearances in The Big Gundown (1966), Long Days of Vengeance (1967), Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (1970) and Adiós, Sabata (1971). In 1972, she married the Italian director and producer Luciano Ercoli, starring in many of his productions up until the early-1980s, and was familiar with her erotically themed roles in giallo and sex comedies.
She went into semi-retirement after 1983, making two last films in 1989. In recent years, she returned to live in her native Spain with her husband.

## Early life

Navarro was born in Almería, to an Andalusian father and a Catalan mother. Her family moved to Barcelona when she was twelve years old.
Her career began as advertising and fashion model. The introduction of television in Spain in 1956 led to further appearances in commercials and other work in the industry during the next few years.

## Acting career

She began her career as a film actress in Italy alongside Totò in the Lawrence of Arabia parody Toto of Arabia (1965), a Spanish-Italian co-production, in which she played Doris, a beautiful spy in the service of the British SIS, who charms the Sheik of Kuwait El Ali el Buzur (Fernando Sancho) and allows Totò to use her to drive the one hundred wives of the Sheik jealous.
Her early work in films took place in the Spaghetti Westerns that were shot regularly in her hometown of Almeria. In 1965, she appeared in A Pistol for Ringo, starring Giuliano Gemma, as the girlfriend of the Mexican bandit Sancho (Fernando Sancho). Navarro also appeared in the sequel The Return of Ringo, and supporting roles in The Big Gundown (1966), Long Days of Vengeance (1967), Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming (1970) and Adiós, Sabata (1971). Nieves also had leading roles in a number of action and horror films during this period and was among the protagonists of the film Death Walks At Midnight (1972), directed by Luciano Ercoli, who eventually became her husband.
She subsequently moved to Italy with Ercoli where she spent the rest of her career, starring in many of her husband's projects, which ended veering towards Italian erotica and "giallo" cinema. It was in the erotica genre that highlighted her as a major star especially her appearances in the Emannuelle series, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) and Emanuelle e Lolita (1978), directed by Joe D'Amato and Henri Sala respectively.

## Later films and retirement

In 1983, Navarro attempted to return to Spanish cinema with films like Gianfranco Angelucci's drama Honey with Fernando Rey, but with less than expected success. She made two last films in 1989, Fiori di zucca and Casa di piacere, before going into retirement. In recent years, she returned to Spain, settling in Barcelona with Ercoli.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1965 | Toto of Arabia | Doris | |
| 1965 | A Pistol for Ringo | Dolores | |
| 1965 | The Return of Ringo | Rosita | |
| 1966 | Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang | Alina Shakespeare | |
| 1966 | Rojo | Consuelo | |
| 1966 | Che notte, ragazzi! | Consuelo | |
| 1966 | The Big Gundown | The Widow | |
| 1967 | Long Days of Vengeance | Dolly | |
| 1969 | Le Paria | Sylvia | |
| 1969 | A Wrong Way to Love | Anna Lanfranchi | |
| 1969 | Amor a todo gas | Laura Montes / Falsa Elena | |
| 1969 | Siete minutos para morir | Karin Foster | |
| 1969 | Naked Violence | Livia Ussaro | |
| 1970 | Adiós, Sabata | Kingsville Saloon Dancer | |
| 1970 | Le foto proibite di una signora per bene | Dominique | |
| 1970 | Light the Fuse... Sartana Is Coming | Belle Manassas | |
| 1971 | Death Walks on High Heels | Nicole Rochard | |
| 1972 | All the Colors of the Dark | Barbara Harrison | |
| 1972 | Kill the Poker Player | Lilly / Kate | |
| 1972 | So Sweet, So Dead | Lily | |
| 1972 | Death Walks at Midnight | Valentina | |
| 1973 | Death Carries a Cane | Kitty | |
| 1973 | The Magnificent Dare Devil | Nina | |
| 1974 | Il giudice e la minorenne | Laura | |
| 1974 | Chi ha rubato il tesoro dello scia? | | |
| 1975 | The Family Vice | Ines, the Countess | |
| 1975 | Los hijos de Scaramouche | Princesa | |
| 1976 | There's a Spy in My Bed | Madame | |
| 1976 | Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk | Crystal | |
| 1976 | Mauricio, mon amour | | Uncredited |
| 1976 | Noi siam come le lucciole | | |
| 1976 | Il medico... la studentessa | Luisa | |
| 1977 | The Rip-Off | Ornella | |
| 1977 | Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals | Maggie McKenzie | |
| 1978 | Cugine mie | Aunt Gaia | |
| 1978 | Emanuelle e Lolita | Emanuelle | |
| 1979 | Candide Lolita | Adrienne Larousse | |
| 1979 | The Nurse in the Military Madhouse | Veronica La Russa | |
| 1980 | Sex and Black Magic | Helen | |
| 1981 | La moglie in bianco... l'amante al pepe | Anna-Maria Mancuso | |
| 1981 | Honey | Governess | |
| 1983 | El fascista, doña Pura y el follón de la escultura | Pura | |
| 1989 | Fiori di zucca | Madre di Enzo | |
| 1989 | Casa di piacere | | (final film role) |