Alberto de Mendoza
Born: 1923-01-21 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died: 2011-12-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
Alberto Manuel Rodríguez-Gallego González de Mendoza was an Argentine film actor who appeared in 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades. A lifelong figure in Argentine films, De Mendoza appeared in film such as Adán y la serpiente in 1946 and A hierro muere in 1962 often working alongside Olga Zubarry. In the late 1960s and 1970 he appeared in a number of spaghetti Westerns. and also had a prominent role in the 1973 horror classic Horror Express, in which he co-starred alongside Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas. De Mendoza is better known to audiences in Argentina for his role in the popular TV series El Rafa, aired from 1980 to 1982, or the less successful El Oriental, aired from 1982 to 1983. He died in Madrid on 12 December 2011, at age 88.
Filmography
2011
- Bad Truth as Ernesto
2006
- Tapas as Don Mariano
2003
- Cleopatra as Víctor
2001
- Lua de Outubro as Marcial Lopes
2000
- Bossa Nova as Juan
1996
1991
- Halloween Monster Bash as Father Pujandov (archive footage)
1984
- Los tigres de la memoria as Carlos
- Nights Without Moons and Suns as Cairo
1981
1980
- El infierno tan temido
- La amante ingenua as Adrián
1979
- The House on Garibaldi Street as Primo
- Seven Dangerous Women as Marqués de Castellamare
- Manaos as Mario Buendía
1978
- Avisa a Curro Jiménez as El Jandalo
- Venus de fuego as Beltrán
- Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando as Sr. Empresa
1977
- Curse of the Black Cat as David
- La violación
1976
- Curro Jiménez as Lédaux
- The People Who Own the Dark as Prof. Fulton
- What Changed Charley Farthing? as Jumbo
- El hombre que supo amar as Juan de Ávila
- Striptease as George
- Fulanita y sus menganos as Manolo
- El erotismo y la informática as Gonzalo Garcés
1975
- Zorrita Martínez as Antonio
1974
- And Then There Were None as Otto Martino
- Open Season as Martin
- Hold Up as Ashley
- To Love Ophelia as Piero Criscione, Avvocato
- A Prewar Grandmother as Juan
1973
- Los camioneros as Sargento Sandoval
- Special Killers as Giorgio Russo
1972
- Horror Express as Father Pujardov
- Las colocadas as Enrique
1971
- The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh as Neil Wardh
- Delusions of Grandeur as King of Spain
- A Lizard in a Woman's Skin as Sergeant Brandon
- The Case of the Scorpion's Tail as John Stanley
- The Corsairs as The Duke
- Human Cobras as George MacGreves
1970
- De profesión, sus labores as Juan Montesinos
- Awkward Hands as Latimore
1969
- Psychout for Murder as Francesco
- One on Top of the Other as Henry Dumurrier
- Forgotten Pistolero as Tomas
- A Bullet for Sandoval as Lucky
- A Bullet for Rommel as SS Major Hermann Traniger
1968
- Appointment in Beirut as Police Captain
- Las secretarias as Don Carlos
- Volver a vivir as Garrido
1967
- The Desperate Ones as Hamlat
- The Midshipmen as Comandante de Brigada Carlos Torres
1966
1965
- The Dictator's Guns as Hendrix
1964
1963
- The Adventures of Scaramouche as Roger - Marquis de la Tour
- An Almost Decent Girl as Carlos
- The Blackmailers as Vergara 'El Americano'
- Primero yo as Juanjo Arrieta
1962
- Queen of the Chantecler as Federico de la Torre
- Kill and Be Killed as Fernando
- Buscando a Mónica as Antonio Montes
- You and I Are Three as Rodolfo Céspedes / Adolfo Céspedes
1960
- Yo quiero vivir contigo as Mauricio del Solar
- El asalto
1958
- The Boss as Berger
- Socios para la aventura
1957
- La dulce enemiga as Ricardo
- La bestia humana as Luis Regiani
- The Marked Woman as Rodolfo Morán alias El Sudamericano
1956
- La adúltera as Carlos Alatorre
- ¡Que seas feliz! as Pablo Suárez
1954
- Gray neighborhood as Claudio
- Descent Into Hell as Adrián Villar
- La calle del pecado as Alberto Salazar
1951
- Pasó en mi barrio as Mingo
- Suburbio
1950
- Madre Alegría
- Filomena Marturano as Ricardo
- The Marihuana Story as Lt. DeLuca
- When My Husband Kisses
1949
- La cuna vacía
- Don Juan Tenorio as Joven bromista
- Un hombre solo no vale nada as Borracho en la boite
- Miguitas en la cama as Esteban Roselli
1947
1946
- Adán y la serpiente as Daniel
- Inspiración
1944
- Su mejor alumno as Enrique Moreno
- Se rematan ilusiones
1937
- Murió el sargento Laprida as (as Alberto Mendoza)
1930
- Gaucho Soul as Carlos