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
1984
- Nights Without Moons and Suns as Cairo
- Los tigres de la memoria as Carlos
1981
1980
- El infierno tan temido
- La amante ingenua as Adrián
1979
- Manaos as Mario Buendía
- The House on Garibaldi Street as Primo
- Seven Dangerous Women as Marqués de Castellamare
1978
- Venus de fuego as Beltrán
- Avisa a Curro Jiménez as El Jandalo
- Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando as Sr. Empresa
1977
- Curse of the Black Cat as David
- La violación
1976
- The People Who Own the Dark as Prof. Fulton
- El hombre que supo amar as Juan de Ávila
- Curro Jiménez as Lédaux
- What Changed Charley Farthing? as Jumbo
- Fulanita y sus menganos as Manolo
- Striptease as George
- El erotismo y la informática as Gonzalo Garcés
1975
- Zorrita Martínez as Antonio
1974
- Open Season as Martin
- And Then There Were None as Otto Martino
- To Love Ophelia as Piero Criscione, Avvocato
- A Prewar Grandmother as Juan
- Hold Up as Ashley
1973
- Special Killers as Giorgio Russo
- Los camioneros as Sargento Sandoval
1972
- Las colocadas as Enrique
- Horror Express as Father Pujardov
1971
- The Corsairs as The Duke
- Delusions of Grandeur as King of Spain
- The Case of the Scorpion's Tail as John Stanley
- The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh as Neil Wardh
- Human Cobras as George MacGreves
- A Lizard in a Woman's Skin as Sergeant Brandon
1970
- Awkward Hands as Latimore
- De profesión, sus labores as Juan Montesinos
1969
- A Bullet for Sandoval as Lucky
- Forgotten Pistolero as Tomas
- One on Top of the Other as Henry Dumurrier
- Psychout for Murder as Francesco
- A Bullet for Rommel as SS Major Hermann Traniger
1968
- Volver a vivir as Garrido
- Appointment in Beirut as Police Captain
- Las secretarias as Don Carlos
1967
- The Midshipmen as Comandante de Brigada Carlos Torres
- The Desperate Ones as Hamlat
1966
1965
- The Dictator's Guns as Hendrix
1964
1963
- The Adventures of Scaramouche as Roger - Marquis de la Tour
- Primero yo
- The Blackmailers as Vergara 'El Americano'
- An Almost Decent Girl as Carlos
1962
- Queen of the Chantecler as Federico de la Torre
- Buscando a Mónica as Antonio Montes
- Kill and Be Killed as Fernando
- You and I Are Three as Rodolfo Céspedes / Adolfo Céspedes
1960
- El asalto
- Yo quiero vivir contigo as Mauricio del Solar
1958
- The Boss as Berger
- Socios para la aventura
1957
- La bestia humana as Luis Regiani
- La dulce enemiga as Ricardo
- 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
- The Marihuana Story as Lt. DeLuca
- When My Husband Kisses
- Madre Alegría
- Filomena Marturano as Ricardo
1949
- Don Juan Tenorio as Joven bromista
- La cuna vacía
- 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