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Tony Kendall

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Tony Kendall

Born August 22, 1936 in Rome, Lazio, ItalyDied November 28, 200956 films

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.

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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.

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The Whip and the Body posterFirst watchThe Whip and the Body19636.4as Cristiano MenliffDisowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.View film

Essential films

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Cop or Hood poster6.3Cop or Hood1979Attila Scourge of God poster6.0Attila Scourge of God1982Le Guignolo poster6.0Le Guignolo1980Attack of the Blind Dead poster5.8Attack of the Blind Dead1973Alex the Ram poster2.4Alex the Ram2000

Filmography

56 films as actor
  1. TBASnow White
  2. 2010Il giorno della Shoahnazista
  3. 2007Voce del verbo amoreEttore
  4. 2000Alex the RamComandante
  5. 1993On the Dark ContinentErnesto
  6. 1991The Invisible WallColonnello Aeronautica
  7. 1989Thrilling LoveAlberto Stuart
  8. 1987Death StoneMiguel Gomez
  9. 1987Kamikaze
  10. 1982Attila Scourge of GodSerpicio
  11. 1982Crime on the HighwayMr. Tarquini
  12. 1980Le GuignoloFredo
  13. 1979Cop or HoodInspector Rey
  14. 1978White Fang and the KidFranky James
  15. 1978CorleoneSalvatore Sperlazzo
  16. 1978Closed CircuitRoberto Vinci
  17. 1977Yeti: The Giant of the 20th CenturyCliff Chandler
  18. 1977OilTony
  19. 1975Bruna, Shapely, Seeks GiftedGiovanni Pizzolla
  20. 1975La Missione del MandrilloPietro Rossini
  21. 1973Tales of EroticaBitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle")
  22. 1973La Dernière Bourrée à ParisVictor
  23. 1973Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattroD'Artagnan
  24. 1973The Off-Road GirlCarlo
  25. 1973The Loreley's GraspSigurd
  26. 1973Attack of the Blind DeadJack Marlowe
  27. 1973The Night of the Last DayBeppe Banti
  28. 1972The Crucified Girls of San RamonJeff
  29. 1972Blood StoryAbraham French
  30. 1972Siege of TerrorAndrew
  31. 1971The Tiger GangKommissar X
  32. 1971Gunman of One Hundred CrossesSartana / Django
  33. 1971In the Eye of the HurricaneMichel
  34. 1971Brother OutlawDakota Thompson
  35. 1970Fighters from Ave MariaJohn
  36. 1970Django Challenges SartanaDjango
  37. 1969Love BirdsNino
  38. 1969Hate Is My GodIl Nero/Carl
  39. 1969Island of Lost GirlsKommissar X
  40. 1969Machine Gun McCainPete Zacari
  41. 1968Kill, Panther, Kill!Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X'
  42. 1967Kill Me GentlyKommissar X
  43. 1967The Three Fantastic SupermenTony
  44. 1967The Criminals of the Metropolissergente Perier
  45. 1966So Darling, So DeadlyKommissar X
  46. 1966Death Is Nimble, Death Is QuickKommissar X
  47. 1966Kiss Kiss, Kill KillKommissar X
  48. 1965Serenade for Two SpiesPepino
  49. 1965Black Eagle of Santa FeChief Black Eagle
  50. 1964L'uomo mascherato contro il corsaro neroCaptain Ruiz
  51. 1964The Masked Man Against the PiratesCaptain Ruiz
  52. 1964Hyena of LondonHenry
  53. 1963Brennus, Enemy of RomeQuinto Fabio
  54. 1963The Pirates of the MississippiSchwarzer Adler
  55. 1963The Whip and the BodyCristiano Menliff
  56. 1957Female Three Times