Alberto Manuel Rodríguez-Gallego González de Mendoza [1] was an Argentine film actor who appeared in some 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades died he was 88..[2]
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 middle-age audiencies in Argentina from 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.[3][4]
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(21 January 1923 – 12 December 2011)
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 middle-age audiencies in Argentina from 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.[3][4]
Selected filmography
- 1946 – Adán y la serpiente
- 1950 – The Marihuana Story
- 1951 – Pasó en mi barrio
- 1955 – La Mujer Desnuda
- 1958 – El Jefe directed by Fernando Ayala
- 1960 – El Asalto
- 1962 – A hierro muere
- 1964 – Primero yo
- 1965 - The Dictator's Guns
- 1969 - A Bullet for Sandoval
- 1969 - The Forgotten Pistolero
- 1971 – La Folie des grandeurs directed by Gérard Oury (as Charles II, King of Spain)
- 1972 – Horror Express (as Father Pujardov)
- 1978 – The Man Who Knew Love
- 1981 – The Underground Man
- 1984 - Noches sin lunas ni soles
- 2005 – Tapas
TV series
- 1980-1982 – El Rafa
- 1982 - El Oriental
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