Alfredo Mayo
Born: 1911-05-17 in Barcelona - Catalonia - Spain
Died: 1985-05-19
Known For: Acting
Biography
Abandonó los estudios de Medicina para ingresar a los 18 años en la compañía teatral de Ernesto Vilches. Tras finalizar la Guerra Civil Española, donde llegó a ser teniente de Aviación. Inicia su carrera profesional siendo uno de los galanes favoritos de los directores del régimen franquista. Alcanzó una gran fama en la posguerra por encarnar el prototipo de galán militar y heroico y del franquismo. Debutó en 1935, pero su consagración llegó en 1941 con Raza, de José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. Tras ésta llegó A mí la legión (1942), de Juan de Orduña, con el que protagonizó también La leona de Castilla (1951), junto a Amparo Rivelles. Otras de sus películas son la extraordinaria La caza (1965), de Carlos Saura, Peppermint Frappé (1967), también de Saura, o Los desafíos (1969), dirigida por Víctor Erice. Participó en más de 250 películas.
Filmography
1985
- El caso del procurador enamorado as Padre de Carmen
1984
- Poppers as Pablo Jordan
1983
- The Angry Cid as Padre de Rodrigo
- Mar brava as Anchoa
- Bearn as Vicario
1982
- La Máscara Negra
- Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor as Fray Diego de Deza
- Hablamos esta noche as Padre
- Perdóname, amor
1981
- I want to dream as Alfredo
- La leyenda del tambor as Clussá's Grandfather
- National Heritage as Nacho
1980
- Les Chevaux du soleil as Général de Bourmont
- The Cantabrians as Lábaro
1979
1978
- Cañas y barro as Tío Palomo
- Avisa a Curro Jiménez as Don Fulgencio
- Red Gold as Padre de Aurelia
- The Remains from the Shipwreck as Don Emilio
- Cabo de Vara
1977
- The Apolitical Man as Sr. Bustos
- Tooth and Nail as Rodolfo Ortiz
- Secretos de alcoba as Conde
- Pasión as Aldo
- Estoy hecho un chaval as Don Amalio
- Raza, el espíritu de Franco
- Gusanos de seda as D. Ernesto
1976
- Curro Jiménez as Don Esteban
- Songs for After a War as Jesús Churruca (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien as Alejandro
- La espuela as Don Pedro
- El chiste as Hombre emocionado / Emiliano / Alfredo
- El límite del amor as Ricardo
- The Perfect Lover
- Un día con Sergio as Productor
1975
- Terapia al desnudo as Doctor Armayor, Director del sanatorio
- Canciones de nuestra vida as Self
1974
- Sergeant Berry as Ernest Culp
- Vida conyugal sana as Don Alfonso
- Larga noche de julio as Padre de Toni
- Bell from Hell as Don Pedro
- Voodoo Black Exorcist as Dr. Kessling
- Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave? as Dr. Ángel Alcántara
- Hen Pecked as Héctor Goizueta
- Chicas de alquiler as Don Carlos
- Proceso a Jesús
- Vera, a Cruel Tale as D. Juan Manuel
1973
- Karate, Fist and Beans as Colonel Randolf Quint
- The Scarlet Letter as Gov. Fuller
- Those Dirty Dogs! as General Muller / Lopez
- La llamaban la madrina as Don Ramón
- Volveré a nacer as Oscar
1972
- The Call of the Wild as Judge Miller
- My Dear Killer as Beniamino
- Prey of Vultures as John Wolley
- Great Treasure Hunt as André
- Entre dos amores
1971
1970
- ¿Quién soy yo? as Pedro Astófano
- In the Folds of the Flesh as Police inspector
- Sabata the Killer as Garfield
- The Ancines Woods as Don Nicolás de Valcárcel
- El mejor del mundo as Doctor Márquez
1969
- Eagles Over London as English officer
- Hell Commandos as Professor van Kolstrum
- El taxi de los conflictos as Alfredo, el amante
- The Challenges as Germán
1968
- Christopher Colombus
- Este cura as Don Pedro
- Madigan's Millions
- Smashing Up as Luis
- No le busques tres pies... as Mota
- El paseíllo
1967
- Peppermint Frappé as Pablo
1966
- Special Mission Lady Chaplin as Sir Hillary
- Ypotron: Final Countdown as Morrow / Leikman
- Attack of the Robots as Baxter
- The Hunt as Paco
- Las últimas horas as Juan de la Cierva
1965
- Mission Bloody Mary
- The Amazing Doctor G as Automobilista Affeminato
- Espionage in Lisbon as Losky
- Make Your Bets Ladies as Boss de Mike
1964
- El señor de La Salle as Lanceroy
- Bullet in the Flesh as Mortimer Lasky
- Casi un caballero as Eduardo Montalbán - inspector de policía
- Badmen of the West as Philip
1963
- El turista as Don Luis
- 55 Days at Peking as Spanish Minister
- Los guerrilleros as Padre Antonio
- El secreto de Tomy as Don Fernando Mendoza
1962
- Commando as Mayor
- Historia de una noche as Del Río
- Siempre en mi recuerdo
1961
- Fray Escoba as Don Juan de Porres
- Revolt of the Mercenaries as Marco
- Alerta en el cielo as Coronel Gadea
- Cariño mío as Ministro
- Teresa de Jesús as Padre Francisco de Borja
- Armas contra la ley
1960
- Robinson et le triporteur
- Un ángel tuvo la culpa as Comisario
- Fontana di Trevi as Sor Giovanni
- Don Lucio and Brother Pío as Casinos
- Queen of the Tabarin Club as Charles
- Un paso al frente as Comandante Guzmán
1959
- Legions of the Nile as Ottaviano
- 15 under the canvas
- Mission in Morocco as Major Selim Naruf
1958
- Héroes del aire as Coronel Gonzalo Rivas
- Una muchachita de Valladolid as Raimundo Aymat - el Canciller
1957
- Pasos de angustia as Ernesto
- The Last Couplet as Gran Duque Vladimir de Rusia
- The Teacher and the Miracle as Preside
1956
- Piedras vivas
- Playa prohibida
- Fail in Communism as Demetrio
1955
- Sucedió en Sevilla as Alberto Campos
1954
- Haute Couture as Ramón
- El alcalde de Zalamea as Don Alvaro
1952
- Hombre acosado as Fussot
1951
- La virgen gitana as Eduardo Miranda
- The Seventh Page as Paco
- María Antonia "La Caramba"
- La Leona de Castilla as Manrique
1949
- Paz as Federico
1948
- The Marquis of Salamanca as José de Salamanca
- Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
1947
- Obsesión as Víctor
- Heroes del 95 as Teniente Padilla
1946
- Audiencia pública as Raúl Pituá
- Chantaje
1945
- El camino de Babel as César Jiménez
1943
- El abanderado
- Deliciosamente tontos as Ernesto Azavedo
1942
- Raza as José Churruca
- Follow the Legion! as El Grajo
- Malvaloca as Leonardo
- El frente de los suspiros
1941
- Escuadrilla as Teniente Miguel
- ¡Harka! as Capitán Santiago Balcázar
- Sarasate as Pablo Sarasate
1936
1935
- El ciento trece as Marcelo