ROME — Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, AFP reported Tuesday. Savry and his agency did not immediately return emailed requests for comment from The Associated Press. The contest brought her to the Venice Film Festival, where she came to the attention of the Italian movie industry. “The fact I’m making movies is just an accident,” Cardinale recalled while accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002. It was produced by Franco Cristaldi, who managed her early career and to whom she was married from 1966 to 1975.