Rosemary Dexter

British actress (1944–2010)

Rosemarie Dexter

Born	(1944-07-19)19 July 1944 Quetta, British India
Died	8 September 2010(2010-09-08) (aged 66) Recanati, Italy
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1960s–1970s

Rosemarie Dexter (19 July 1944 – 8 September 2010), best known as Rosemary Dexter, was a British film actress who worked in Italy.

Life and career

Born in Quetta (Present day Pakistan) to a British father and an Anglo-Burmese mother, Dexter entered the film industry in 1963, when during a vacation in Rome she met director Ugo Gregoretti who offered her a significant role in his science fiction film Omicron. She then became a very active actress until the mid-seventies, when she retired from acting at age 32.^[1]

She was found dead in her house in Recanati, in September 2010; she had long been suffering from illness.^[2]

Selected filmography

Omicron (1963) - Lucia
I mostri (1963) - Luciana (segment "Come un Padre") (uncredited)
Desideri d'estate (1964)
Romeo e Giulietta (1964) - Juliet
Oltraggio al pudore (1964) - Giovenella
Male Companion (1964) - L'étudiante / Student (uncredited)
Casanova 70 (1965) - La cameriera
Highest Pressure (1965) - Serenella
For a Few Dollars More (1965) - Mortimer's Sister (uncredited)
Almost a Man (1966) - Marina
Per amore... per magia... (1967) - Esmeralda
The Dirty Outlaws (1967) - Katy
Gente d'onore (1967)
The Sex of Angels (1968) - Nancy
House of Cards (1968) - Daniela
Partner (1968)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) - Chiara
Vendetta for the Saint (1969) - Gina
Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) - Claudine
I quattro del pater noster (1969)
Blow Hot, Blow Cold (1969) - Laetitia
Mio Mao: Fatiche ed avventure di alcuni giovani occidentali per introdurre il vizio in Cina (1970) - Jean
Mazzabubù... Quante corna stanno quaggiù? (1971) - Emma, Lucio's wife
Come Together (1971) - Ann
Eye in the Labyrinth (1972) - Julie
I figli chiedono perché (1972) - Mother of Michèle
Lui per lei (1972)
Seven Hours of Violence (1973) - Helena Karlatis
Hi wa shizumi, hi wa noboru (1973)
L'ultimo uomo di Sara (1974) - Anna
Catene (1974) - Francesca
La minorenne (1974) - Franca Sanna
Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974) - Floidia di Maqueda
Povero Cristo (1976) - Mara (final film role)

References

^ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli (13 October 2023). Le straniere del nostro cinema. Gremese Editore, 2005. ISBN 978-8884403506.
^ "Trovata morta a Recanati l'attrice Rosemarie Dexter, viveva anonimamente in città vicino la Piazzuola". Il Cittadino. 9 September 2012. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.