Tony Kendall
Tony Kendall (22 August 1936 – 28 November 2009) was an Italian model turned film actor with over 50 film credits that reflect the trends of popular European cinema in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Born as Luciano Stella, Kendall was formerly a model for Italian Fumetti, comics done in photographs. He changed his name to Tony Kendall at the suggestion of Vittorio De Sica in the fashion of many Italian actors whose films were shown in countries outside of Italy in the days when European films proliferated. Stella made his film debut in Femmine Tre Volte in 1959 but didn't make another appearance until he used his new name of Tony Kendall in Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963) one of the sword and sandal craze of films popular in the early 1960s. Kendall is most famous for his various teamings with Brad Harris, with the two predating Terence Hill and Bud Spencer as a popular and prolific action team. In the derivative world of the European cinema of the 1960s, Kendall and Harris first teamed up in two sauerkraut western films "inspired" by the successful German Karl May Winnetou series with Harris as a Lex Barker clone and Kendall as a Native American "Chief Black Eagle" in The Pirates of the Mississippi (1963) and Black Eagle of Santa Fe (1965). With the international success of the James Bond films and the German Jerry Cotton series, Kendall became best known for his role as private detective Joe Walker in the seven films of the Eurospy Kommissar X series where he played opposite Brad Harris in the role of New York Police Captain Tom Rowland. The popularity of Batman (TV series) led to Harris and Kendall appearing in The Three Fantastic Supermen (1967) the first in a long series that had stunt work performed by a young Jackie Chan (“The Three Fantastic Supermen in the Orient”). Kendall has prominently appeared in other varieties of European cinema in the 1960s and 1970s such as Giallo horror (The Whip and the Body, 1963), spaghetti westerns (as Django in Django Against Sartana, 1970, and Gunman of 100 Crosses, 1971), crime movies such as Machine Gun McCain (1969), and adventure films such as Oil! (1977). He also appeared in European versions of women in prison (The Big Bust Out, 1972), zombie horror (Return of the Blind Dead, 1973), and films inspired by The Godfather (Corleone, 1978). Aside from an appearance in Alex l'ariete (2000), Kendall's last film role was in On the Dark Continent in 1993. Source: Article "Tony Kendall (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- 2012 · Die X-Männer schlagen zurück as Jo Louis Walker / Kommissar X
- 2010 · Il giorno della Shoah as nazista
- 2007 · Voce del verbo amore as Ettore
- 2000 · Alex the Ram as Comandante
- 1993 · On the Dark Continent as Ernesto
- 1991 · The Invisible Wall as Colonnello Aeronautica
- 1989 · Thrilling Love as Alberto Stuart
- 1987 · Death Stone as Miguel Gomez
- 1985 · Caccia al ladro d'autore as colonnello Raimondi
- 1982 · Attila flagello di Dio as Serpicio
- 1982 · Crime on the Highway as Mr. Tarquini
- 1980 · Le Guignolo as Fredo
- 1979 · Cop or Hood as L'inspecteur Rey
- 1978 · White Fang and the Kid as Franky James
- 1978 · Corleone as Salvatore Sperlazzo
- 1978 · Closed Circuit as Roberto Vinci
- 1977 · Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century as Cliff Chandler
- 1977 · Oil as Tony
- 1975 · Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted as Giovanni Pizzolla
- 1975 · La Missione del Mandrillo as Pietro Rossini
- 1973 · Tales of Erotica as Bitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle")
- 1973 · La Dernière Bourrée à Paris as Victor
- 1973 · Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro as D'Artagnan
- 1973 · La ragazza fuoristrada as Carlo
- 1973 · The Loreley's Grasp as Sigurd
- 1973 · Attack of the Blind Dead as Jack Marlowe
- 1973 · The Night of the Last Day as Beppe Banti
- 1972 · The Big Bust-Out as Jeff
- 1972 · Blood Story as Abraham French
- 1972 · Siege of Terror as Andrew
- 1971 · The Tiger Gang as Kommissar X
- 1971 · Gunman of One Hundred Crosses as Sartana / Django
- 1971 · In the Eye of the Hurricane as Michel
- 1971 · Brother Outlaw as Dakota Thompson
- 1970 · Fighters from Ave Maria as John
- 1970 · Django Challenges Sartana as Django
- 1969 · Love Birds as Nino
- 1969 · Hate Is My God as Il Nero/Carl
- 1969 · Island of Lost Girls as Kommissar X
- 1969 · Machine Gun McCain as Pete Zacari
- 1968 · Kill, Panther, Kill! as Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X'
- 1967 · Kill Me Gently as Kommissar X
- 1967 · The Three Fantastic Supermen as Tony
- 1967 · The Criminals of the Metropolis as sergente Perier
- 1966 · So Darling, So Deadly as Kommissar X
- 1966 · Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick as Kommissar X
- 1966 · Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill as Kommissar X
- 1965 · Serenade for Two Spies as Pepino
- 1965 · Black Eagle of Santa Fe as Chief Black Eagle
- 1964 · The Masked Man Against the Pirates as Captain Ruiz
- 1964 · Hyena of London as Henry
- 1963 · Brennus, Enemy of Rome as Quinto Fabio
- 1963 · The Pirates of the Mississippi as Schwarzer Adler
- 1963 · The Whip and the Body as Cristiano Menliff
- 1957 · Female Three Times as
- 2024 · Snow White as