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
- Bearn as Vicario
- Mar brava as Anchoa
1982
- La Máscara Negra
- Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor as Fray Diego de Deza
- Hablamos esta noche as Padre
- Perdóname, amor
1981
- La leyenda del tambor as Clussá's Grandfather
- I want to dream as Alfredo
- National Heritage as Nacho
1980
- Les Chevaux du soleil as Général de Bourmont
- The Cantabrians as Lábaro
1979
1978
- Avisa a Curro Jiménez as Don Fulgencio
- Cañas y barro as Tío Palomo
- The Remains from the Shipwreck as Don Emilio
- Red Gold as Padre de Aurelia
- Cabo de Vara
1977
- Tooth and Nail as Rodolfo Ortiz
- The Apolitical Man as Sr. Bustos
- Estoy hecho un chaval as Don Amalio
- Secretos de alcoba as Conde
- Raza, el espíritu de Franco
- Pasión as Aldo
- 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
- Un día con Sergio as Productor
- El límite del amor as Ricardo
- The Perfect Lover
- El chiste as Hombre emocionado / Emiliano / Alfredo
- La espuela as Don Pedro
1975
- Canciones de nuestra vida as Self
- Terapia al desnudo as Doctor Armayor, Director del sanatorio
1974
- Sergeant Berry as Ernest Culp
- Bell from Hell as Don Pedro
- Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave? as Dr. Ángel Alcántara
- Vera, a Cruel Tale as D. Juan Manuel
- Larga noche de julio as Padre de Toni
- Voodoo Black Exorcist as Dr. Kessling
- Vida conyugal sana as Don Alfonso
- Proceso a Jesús
- Chicas de alquiler as Don Carlos
- Hen Pecked as Héctor Goizueta
1973
- Those Dirty Dogs! as General Muller / Lopez
- The Scarlet Letter as Gov. Fuller
- Karate, Fist and Beans as Colonel Randolf Quint
- 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
- In the Folds of the Flesh as Police inspector
- The Ancines Woods as Don Nicolás de Valcárcel
- El mejor del mundo as Doctor Márquez
- ¿Quién soy yo? as Pedro Astófano
- Sabata the Killer as Garfield
1969
- Eagles Over London as English officer
- El taxi de los conflictos as Alfredo, el amante
- Hell Commandos as Professor van Kolstrum
- The Challenges as Germán
1968
- Christopher Colombus
- Este cura as Don Pedro
- Madigan's Millions
- No le busques tres pies... as Mota
- Smashing Up as Luis
- 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
- The Amazing Doctor G as Automobilista Affeminato
- Mission Bloody Mary
- Make Your Bets Ladies as Boss de Mike
- Espionage in Lisbon as Losky
1964
- Bullet in the Flesh as Mortimer Lasky
- El señor de La Salle as Lanceroy
- Badmen of the West as Philip
- Casi un caballero as Eduardo Montalbán - inspector de policía
1963
- 55 Days at Peking as Spanish Minister
- El turista as Don Luis
- El secreto de Tomy as Don Fernando Mendoza
- Los guerrilleros as Padre Antonio
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
- Armas contra la ley
- Cariño mío as Ministro
- Teresa de Jesús as Padre Francisco de Borja
1960
- Un ángel tuvo la culpa as Comisario
- Don Lucio and Brother Pío as Casinos
- Queen of the Tabarin Club as Charles
- Robinson et le triporteur
- Un paso al frente as Comandante Guzmán
- Fontana di Trevi as Sor Giovanni
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
- The Last Couplet as Gran Duque Vladimir de Rusia
- The Teacher and the Miracle as Preside
- Pasos de angustia as Ernesto
1956
- Playa prohibida
- Piedras vivas
- Fail in Communism as Demetrio
1955
- Sucedió en Sevilla as Alberto Campos
1954
- El alcalde de Zalamea as Don Alvaro
- Haute Couture as Ramón
1952
- Hombre acosado as Fussot
1951
- The Seventh Page as Paco
- La Leona de Castilla as Manrique
- María Antonia "La Caramba"
- La virgen gitana as Eduardo Miranda
1949
- Paz as Federico
1948
- The Marquis of Salamanca as José de Salamanca
- Pototo, Boliche y Compañía
1947
- Heroes del 95 as Teniente Padilla
- Obsesión as Víctor
1946
- Audiencia pública as Raúl Pituá
- Chantaje
1945
- El camino de Babel as César Jiménez
1943
- El abanderado
- Deliciosamente tontos as Ernesto Azavedo
1942
- Follow the Legion! as El Grajo
- Raza as José Churruca
- El frente de los suspiros
- Malvaloca as Leonardo
1941
- Escuadrilla as Teniente Miguel
- Sarasate as Pablo Sarasate
- ¡Harka! as Capitán Santiago Balcázar
1936
1935
- El ciento trece as Marcelo