Fernando Sancho
Born: 1916-01-07 in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
Died: 1990-07-31
Known For: Acting
Biography
One of the most popular performers in Spanish cinema. Born in Zaragoza, Sancho began acting in the theatre. After fighting in the Spanish Civil War, he entered films in 1940 and amassed over 400 credits in a career that spanned 50 years. During the 1960s and 1970s he played villains in several spaghetti westerns. His films include "Mariona Rebull" (1947), "Agustina de Aragón" (1950), Terence Young's "That Lady" (1955), Juan Antonio Bardem's "Muerte de un Ciclista" (1955), "King of Kings" (1961), "Lawrence of Arabia"(1962), "55 Days at Peking" (1955), "Historias de la Televisión" (1965), "Tres Superhombres en el Oeste" (1973), "1919. Crónica del Alba" (1983) and Berlanga's "La Vaquilla" (1984).
Filmography
2015
- Spanish Western as Self - Actor (archive footage)
1990
- The Black Moon as Mariano
1989
- Sabbath as Mariano
1987
- Policía as Comandante Castillejo
1986
- Los presuntos as Mafioso italiano
1985
- Pagina de Sucesos as Río Leona
- The Heifer as Alcalde
- El crimen de la calle Fuencarral as Coronel
1984
- Las alegres chicas de Colsada
- East of West as Chapulín
1983
- Las autonosuyas as Bernardo
- Invierno en Marbella as Cardenal
1982
- Pecado Horizontal
- De camisa vieja a chaqueta nueva as Cónsul alemán
- Black Commando as President Bethancourt
- Fredy el croupier as Cura
1981
- The Black Wolf as Cabo
- Revenge of the Black Wolf as Corporal Donovan
- Black Jack
1980
- I.O.B. Spezialauftrag as Vanloo
- Spoiled Children as Agustín
- ...And the Third Year, He Resuscitated as Coronel
1979
- Son of Superbug as Alfonso, Mafia-Boss
- The Seven Magnificent and Bold Women
- Father Cami's Wedding as Blas
1978
- Trampa sexual as Padre de Marta
- Venus de fuego as Subcomisario
- Estimado Sr. juez... as Tambarria
- Memoria as Ulop
1977
- Change of Sex as José
- The Perfect Killer as The Arms Dealer
- Doña Perfecta
- Las alimañas as Louis
- La mujer es un buen negocio as Don Anselmo
1976
- The Stash as Paco
- A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión as André Meroy
- What Changed Charley Farthing? as Lupez
- Halt die Luft an alter Gauner - Der Stockfisch und das Stinktier as Admiral Pedro Santos
1975
- La última jugada as Swartas Pinto
- Demon Witch Child as Police Chief
- The Married and the Minor as Comisario
- Cross of the Devil as Ignacio
- Canciones de nuestra vida as Self
- Novios de la muerte
1974
- The Swamp of the Ravens as Inspector
- The King is the Best Mayor as Conde
- Voodoo Black Exorcist as Inspector Dominguez
- Ten Killers from Afar as Kelly Lucamone
1973
- Attack of the Blind Dead as Mayor Duncan
- The Guerrilla as Juan
- Man with the Golden Winchester as Colonel Michel Leblanche
- The Playboy and His Sprees as Toni López
- Three Supermen of the West as FBI Director
- Karate, Fist and Beans as Espartero
1972
- Where the Bullets Fly
- Fabulous Trinity as Coronel Jiménez
- Too Much Gold for One Gringo as Fermín Rojas
- Forbidden Love as Comisario
- You Are a Traitor and I Will Kill You! as Sebastian
- Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return as Carrancho
- Souliotes as Ali Pasas
- The Boldest Job in the West as Reyes
1971
- And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave as Pancho Corrales
- Dig Your Grave Friend... Sabata's Coming as Leon Pompera
- X312 - Flight to Hell as Bill - Steward / Paco
- 28th October, 5:30 as Tryfonas Platanias
1970
- In the Folds of the Flesh as Pascal Gorriot
- At the Battle of Crete as Felix and Maria's father
- The Invisible Man's Love Life as The Game-Keeper
- Stagecoach of the Condemned as Leon Pomparo / Ramón Sartana
- La banda de los tres crisantemos as Burton
- Surprise Attack as El Pernas
1969
- Tarzan in the Golden Grotto as Hotel owner
- Simón Bolívar as Fernando Gonzales
- Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard as Il Pirata Barbanera
- Amor a todo gas as Wagner
- The Magnificent Tony Carrera as Einstein
- Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven as Bill Cochran
1968
- If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death as Jose Manuel Mendoza
- Wrath of God as Burd
- Go For Broke as Carrancha
- Ciccio Forgives, I Don't as El Diablo / El Pantera
- Night of Hate as Fernando Gonzales
- Requiem for a Gringo as Porfirio Carranza
- Blood Calls to Blood as Sancho Rodriguez
1967
- The Big Gundown as Capt. Segura
- $10,000 for a Massacre as 'Stardust' Vasquez
- Clint the Stranger as Ross
- Killer Kid as Vilar
- The Crazy Westerners as Sancho
- Hand of the Assassin as Suarez
- Hate for Hate as Coyote
- Vengeance Is Mine as Goncalves / Gonzalez
- Winchester Bill as El Bicho 'The Bug'
- Wanted Johnny Texas as Col. Stewart
- Massacre Mania as Professor Kenitz
- El secreto de papá
- A Man and a Colt as Don Carlos
- Mission Phantom as Prof. Higgins
1966
- Arizona Colt as Gordon
- Django Shoots First as Gordon
- The Big Hit of Surcouf as Le geolier
- Seven Dollars on Red as El Chacal
- Seven Guns for Timothy as Sancho Rodrigo Rodriguez
- Taste of Killing as Sanchez
- Almost Perfect Crime as Omar
- Seven Guns for the MacGregors as Miguel
- Dynamite Jim as Pablo Reyes
- Il vostro superagente Flit as Smirnoff
- Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun as General Emilio Siqueiros
- The Tough One as El Lobo
1965
- A Pistol for Ringo as Sancho
- The Return of Ringo as Esteban Fuentes
- The Wild Men of Kurdistan as Padischah
- $100,000 for Ringo as Chuck
- Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell as Colonel Dolukin
- Kingdom of the Silver Lion as Padischah
- Totò d'Arabia as Ali el Buzur
- Doc, Hands of Steel as Pablo Reyes
- Texas Jim as Sancho / Pancho
- Man from Canyon City as Carrancho
- From the Orient with Fury as Loud patron in Paris restaurant
- Two Idiots at Fort Alamo as Sergeant Fidhouse
- Historias de la televisión as Presentador TV
- Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace as Juan Carrancho
1964
- Gunmen Of The Rio Grande as Pancho Bogan
- Minnesota Clay as Dominique Ortiz Mendoza
- Backfire as Ilmaz
- The Pitiless Three as Pedro Ramirez
- Crimen as El Juez
- Two Gangsters in the Wild West as Rio
- I due toreri as Don Alonso
- The New Cinderella as Fernando
- Black Angel of the Mississippi as Garcia
- Hour of Death as Scometti
1963
- 55 Days at Peking as Belgian Minister (uncredited)
- José María as El Barrigas
- The Ceremony as Shaoush
- The Implacable Three as Diego Abriles
- The Sign of the Coyote as Lugones Brother
- The Secret of the Black Widow as Slim
- Magic Fountain as Priest
- El precio de un asesino as Rufo
- No temas a la ley as Eugenio - Le patron de l'hôtel
1962
- Lawrence of Arabia as Turkish Sergeant (uncredited)
- My Son, the Hero as Prison Overseer (uncredited)
- The Son of Captain Blood as Timothy Thomas
- The Carpet of Horror as Gunman
- Zorro the Avenger as Sargento
1961
- King of Kings as Mad man
- Madame as Pommier
- Goliath Against the Giants as Namathos
- El pobre García as Elías
- Alerta en el cielo as Sargento Montebelo
1960
- The Little Colonel as Vinagre
- La paz empieza nunca as Mirín
- El indulto as El Maroma
1959
- In Cold Blood as Enrique
- Der Löwe von Babylon as Prof. Ignatz Pfotenhauer
- Luxury Cabin as Ernesto
- Two Men in Town as Gregorio
1958
- Die Sklavenkarawane as Prof. Ignaz Pfotenhauer
- The Inveterate Bachelor
- You, Your Mother, and Me as il turco
- El inquilino as Jiménez
- Patio andaluz
- ¡Viva lo imposible! as John
- The Girl of San Pietro Square as The Boxing Coach
- Entierro de un funcionario en primavera
- Entierro de un funcionario en primavera
1957
- Susanna tutta panna as Aristide
- The Star of Africa as Strauch
- Female Three Times as Guardia notturna
- ...And She Chose Hell
- Day of Fear
1956
- Fail in Communism as Pedro
- Cuerda de presos as Juan Díaz de Garayo, 'El Sacamantecas'
- Pasión en el mar as Vicente
1955
- That Lady as Diego
- Death of a Cyclist as Traffic Police
- El canto del gallo as (no acreditado)
- The Other Life of Captain Contreras as Antonio Cornejo
- Tres hombres van a morir as Peauleguin
1954
- Judas' Kiss as Padre del condenado
- Intriga en el escenario as Policía 1º
- Castles in Spain as Posadero
- The Adventurer of Seville as Sir Albert
- Murió hace quince años as Joaquín Campos
1953
- La belle de Cadix as Padre gitano
- I Was a Parish Priest as Barrona
- Airport as Mr. Fogg
- La alegre caravana
- Nadie lo sabrá as Ángel
- María Dolores as Antonio
1952
- Path to the Kingdom as Mr. Evans (as Fernando Sancho)
- Estrella de Sierra Morena as Rafael
- The Eyes Leave a Trace as Comensal irascible
- De Madrid al cielo as Empresario de "El Paraíso"
- Último día as Profesor Lorenzo
1951
- El sueño de Andalucía as Empresario
- Dawn of America as Pedro Salcedo
- La señora de Fátima as Comunista 1
- The Great Galeoto as Vizconde de Nebreda
- Andalusia
1950
- Agustina of Aragon as Escudella
- Servicio en la mar as Don Tofol
- Date With My Old Love
- La mujer de nadie as Martorell
1949
- Life in Shadows as Film Producer
- Don Juan de Serrallonga as Tallaferro
1948
- Embrujo as Mister Benson
- Canción mortal
- Alma baturra
- La sirena negra
- Si te hubieses casado conmigo as Taxista
- La mies es mucha as Clarenberg
- La muralla feliz as Mariano García
1947
- Abel Sánchez
- Mariona Rebull as Señor Roig
- Heroes del 95 as General Tampico
- El ángel gris
- Cuando los ángeles duermen as Peral
1944
- Orosia as Mañico bronquista (uncredited)
- Ni pobre, ni rico, sino todo lo contrario
1941
- Stowaway on Board! as Camarero