Alberto de Mendoza
Biography
Alberto Manuel Rodríguez-Gallego González de Mendoza was an Argentine film actor who appeared in 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades.
A lifelong figure in Argentine films, De Mendoza appeared in film such as Adán y la serpiente in 1946 and A hierro muere in 1962 often working alongside Olga Zubarry. In the late 1960s and 1970 he appeared in a number of spaghetti Westerns. and also had a prominent role in the 1973 horror classic Horror Express, in which he co-starred alongside Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas.
De Mendoza is better known to audiences in Argentina for his role in the popular TV series El Rafa, aired from 1980 to 1982, or the less successful El Oriental, aired from 1982 to 1983. He died in Madrid on 12 December 2011, at age 88.
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Full filmography
- Curro Jiménez (1976) as Lédaux
- Tapas (2006) as Don Mariano
- Horror Express (1972) as Father Pujardov
- Los camioneros (1973) as Sargento Sandoval
- And Then There Were None (1974) as Otto Martino
- Delusions of Grandeur (1971) as King of Spain
- The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971) as Neil Wardh
- One on Top of the Other (1969) as Henry Dumurrier
- Appointment in Beirut (1968) as Police Captain
- Open Season (1974) as Martin
- Forgotten Pistolero (1969) as Tomas
- A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971) as Sergeant Brandon
- Psychout for Murder (1969) as Francesco
- Special Killers (1973) as Giorgio Russo
- Manaos (1979) as Mario Buendía
- The Adventures of Scaramouche (1963) as Roger - Marquis de la Tour
- The Dictator's Guns (1965) as Hendrix
- The People Who Own the Dark (1976) as Prof. Fulton
- Striptease (1976) as George
- La adúltera (1956) as Carlos Alatorre
- Zorrita Martínez (1975) as Antonio
- Bossa Nova (2000) as Juan
- Gray neighborhood (1954) as Claudio
- The House on Garibaldi Street (1979) as Primo