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
- National Heritage as Nacho
- La leyenda del tambor as Clussá's Grandfather
- I want to dream as Alfredo
1980
- Les Chevaux du soleil as Général de Bourmont
- The Cantabrians as Lábaro
1979
1978
- Cañas y barro as Tío Palomo
- Red Gold as Padre de Aurelia
- Cabo de Vara
- Avisa a Curro Jiménez as Don Fulgencio
- The Remains from the Shipwreck as Don Emilio
1977
- Estoy hecho un chaval as Don Amalio
- Pasión as Aldo
- Raza, el espíritu de Franco
- Secretos de alcoba as Conde
- The Apolitical Man as Sr. Bustos
- Tooth and Nail as Rodolfo Ortiz
- Gusanos de seda as D. Ernesto
1976
- Curro Jiménez as Don Esteban
- Call girl: la vida privada de una señorita bien as Alejandro
- La espuela as Don Pedro
- El límite del amor as Ricardo
- El chiste as Hombre emocionado / Emiliano / Alfredo
- Songs for After a War as Jesús Churruca (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Un día con Sergio as Productor
- The Perfect Lover
1975
- Terapia al desnudo as Doctor Armayor, Director del sanatorio
- Canciones de nuestra vida as Self
1974
- Sergeant Berry as Ernest Culp
- Voodoo Black Exorcist as Dr. Kessling
- Bell from Hell as Don Pedro
- Hen Pecked as Héctor Goizueta
- Proceso a Jesús
- Doctor, me gustan las mujeres, ¿es grave? as Dr. Ángel Alcántara
- Vida conyugal sana as Don Alfonso
- Chicas de alquiler as Don Carlos
- Vera, a Cruel Tale as D. Juan Manuel
- Larga noche de julio as Padre de Toni
1973
- The Scarlet Letter as Gov. Fuller
- Those Dirty Dogs! as General Muller / Lopez
- Karate, Fist and Beans as Colonel Randolf Quint
- Volveré a nacer as Oscar
- La llamaban la madrina as Don Ramón
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
- Sabata the Killer as Garfield
- The Ancines Woods as Don Nicolás de Valcárcel
- In the Folds of the Flesh as Police inspector
- El mejor del mundo as Doctor Márquez
- ¿Quién soy yo? as Pedro Astófano
1969
- Eagles Over London as English officer
- The Challenges as Germán
- El taxi de los conflictos as Alfredo, el amante
- Hell Commandos as Professor van Kolstrum
1968
- Christopher Colombus
- Madigan's Millions
- No le busques tres pies... as Mota
- Este cura as Don Pedro
- El paseíllo
- Smashing Up as Luis
1967
- Peppermint Frappé as Pablo
1966
- The Hunt as Paco
- Special Mission Lady Chaplin as Sir Hillary
- Attack of the Robots as Baxter
- Ypotron: Final Countdown as Morrow / Leikman
- 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
- 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
- Historia de una noche as Del Río
- Commando as Mayor
1961
- Cariño mío as Ministro
- Fray Escoba as Don Juan de Porres
- Alerta en el cielo as Coronel Gadea
- Teresa de Jesús as Padre Francisco de Borja
- Revolt of the Mercenaries as Marco
- Armas contra la ley
1960
- Queen of the Tabarin Club as Charles
- Don Lucio and Brother Pío as Casinos
- Robinson et le triporteur
- Un paso al frente as Comandante Guzmán
- Un ángel tuvo la culpa as Comisario
- Fontana di Trevi as Sor Giovanni
1959
- Legions of the Nile as Ottaviano
- Mission in Morocco as Major Selim Naruf
1958
- Una muchachita de Valladolid as Raimundo Aymat - el Canciller
- Héroes del aire as Coronel Gonzalo Rivas
1957
- The Last Couplet as Gran Duque Vladimir de Rusia
- The Teacher and the Miracle as Preside
1956
- Fail in Communism as Demetrio
- Playa prohibida
- Piedras vivas
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 Leona de Castilla as Manrique
- The Seventh Page as Paco
- La virgen gitana as Eduardo Miranda
- María Antonia "La Caramba"
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
- Deliciosamente tontos as Ernesto Azavedo
- El abanderado
1942
- Raza as José Churruca
- Follow the Legion! as El Grajo
- El frente de los suspiros
- Malvaloca as Leonardo
1941
- Escuadrilla as Teniente Miguel
- ¡Harka! as Capitán Santiago Balcázar
- Sarasate as Pablo Sarasate
1936
1935
- El ciento trece as Marcelo