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
- Mar brava as Anchoa
- The Angry Cid as Padre de Rodrigo
- Bearn as Vicario
1982
- Perdóname, amor
- Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor as Fray Diego de Deza
- Hablamos esta noche as Padre
- La Máscara Negra
1981
- National Heritage as Nacho
- La leyenda del tambor as Clussá's Grandfather
- I want to dream as Alfredo
1980
- The Cantabrians as Lábaro
- Les Chevaux du soleil as Général de Bourmont
1979
- El tahúr
- Encounters in the Deep as Pop
1978
- Red Gold as Padre de Aurelia
- Avisa a Curro Jiménez as Don Fulgencio
- Cabo de Vara
- The Remains from the Shipwreck as Don Emilio
- Cañas y barro as Tío Palomo
1977
- The Apolitical Man as Sr. Bustos
- Pasión as Aldo
- Gusanos de seda as D. Ernesto
- Estoy hecho un chaval as Don Amalio
- Secretos de alcoba as Conde
- Tooth and Nail as Rodolfo Ortiz
- Raza, el espíritu de Franco
1976
- El chiste as Hombre emocionado / Emiliano / Alfredo
- La espuela as Don Pedro
- Curro Jiménez as Don Esteban
- Un día con Sergio as Productor
- Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien as Alejandro
- El límite del amor as Ricardo
- The Perfect Lover
- Songs for After a War as Jesús Churruca (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975
- Canciones de nuestra vida as Self
- Terapia al desnudo as Doctor Armayor, Director del sanatorio
1974
- Hen Pecked as Héctor Goizueta
- Voodoo Black Exorcist as Dr. Kessling
- Proceso a Jesús
- Bell from Hell as Don Pedro
- Vera, a Cruel Tale as D. Juan Manuel
- Larga noche de julio as Padre de Toni
- Vida conyugal sana as Don Alfonso
- Sergeant Berry as Ernest Culp
- Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave? as Dr. Ángel Alcántara
- Chicas de alquiler as Don Carlos
1973
- The Scarlet Letter as Gov. Fuller
- La llamaban la madrina as Don Ramón
- Karate, Fist and Beans as Colonel Randolf Quint
- Volveré a nacer as Oscar
- Those Dirty Dogs! as General Muller / Lopez
1972
- The Call of the Wild as Judge Miller
- My Dear Killer as Beniamino
- Prey of Vultures as John Wolley
- Entre dos amores
- Great Treasure Hunt as André
1971
1970
- Sabata the Killer as Garfield
- ¿Quién soy yo? as Pedro Astófano
- The Ancines Woods as Don Nicolás de Valcárcel
- El mejor del mundo as Doctor Márquez
- In the Folds of the Flesh as Police inspector
1969
- The Challenges as Germán
- El taxi de los conflictos as Alfredo, el amante
- Hell Commandos as Professor van Kolstrum
- Eagles Over London as English officer
1968
- El paseíllo
- Este cura as Don Pedro
- No le busques tres pies... as Mota
- Smashing Up as Luis
- Madigan's Millions
1967
- Peppermint Frappé as Pablo
1966
- The Hunt as Paco
- Attack of the Robots as Baxter
- Las últimas horas as Juan de la Cierva
- Special Mission Lady Chaplin as Sir Hillary
- Ypotron: Final Countdown as Morrow / Leikman
1965
- The Amazing Doctor G as Automobilista Affeminato
- Mission Bloody Mary
- Place Your Bets, Ladies
- Espionage in Lisbon as Losky
1964
- Casi un caballero as Eduardo Montalbán - inspector de policía
- Badmen of the West as Philip
- El señor de La Salle as Lanceroy
- Bullet in the Flesh as Mortimer Lasky
1963
- 55 Days at Peking as Spanish Minister
- Los guerrilleros as Padre Antonio
- El turista as Don Luis
- El secreto de Tomy as Don Fernando Mendoza
1962
- Historia de una noche as Del Río
- Commando as Mayor
1961
- Revolt of the Mercenaries as Marco
- Fray Escoba as Don Juan de Porres
- Teresa de Jesús as Padre Francisco de Borja
- Armas contra la ley
- Alerta en el cielo as Coronel Gadea
1960
- Don Lucio and Brother Pío as Casinos
- Un ángel tuvo la culpa as Comisario
- Un paso al frente as Comandante Guzmán
- Robinson et le triporteur
- Fontana di Trevi as Sor Giovanni
- Queen of the Tabarin Club as Charles
1959
- Legions of the Nile as Ottaviano
- 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
- The Teacher and the Miracle as Preside
- The Last Couplet as Gran Duque Vladimir de Rusia
1956
- Playa prohibida
- Piedras vivas
- 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
- The Seventh Page as Paco
- La virgen gitana as Eduardo Miranda
- María Antonia "La Caramba"
- La Leona de Castilla as Manrique
1949
- Paz as Federico
1948
- Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
- The Marquis of Salamanca as José de Salamanca
1947
- Obsesión as Víctor
- Heroes del 95 as Teniente Padilla
1946
- Chantaje
- Audiencia pública as Raúl Pituá
1945
- El camino de Babel as César Jiménez
1943
- Deliciosamente tontos as Ernesto Azavedo
- El abanderado
1942
- Malvaloca as Leonardo
- Raza as José Churruca
- Follow the Legion! as El Grajo
- 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