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
- Black Commando as President Bethancourt
- Fredy el croupier as Cura
- De camisa vieja a chaqueta nueva as Cónsul alemán
1981
- Black Jack
- Revenge of the Black Wolf as Corporal Donovan
- The Black Wolf as Cabo
1980
- I.O.B. Spezialauftrag as Vanloo
- ...And the Third Year, He Resuscitated as Coronel
- Spoiled Children as Agustín
1979
- The Seven Magnificent and Bold Women
- Son of Superbug as Alfonso, Mafia-Boss
- Father Cami's Wedding as Blas
1978
- Trampa sexual as Padre de Marta
- Estimado Sr. juez... as Tambarria
- Venus de fuego as Subcomisario
- Memoria as Ulop
1977
- Change of Sex as José
- Doña Perfecta
- Las alimañas as Louis
- The Perfect Killer as The Arms Dealer
- La mujer es un buen negocio as Don Anselmo
1976
- The Stash as Paco
- What Changed Charley Farthing? as Lupez
- A la Legión le gustan las mujeres… y a las mujeres, les gusta la Legión as André Meroy
- 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
- Voodoo Black Exorcist as Inspector Dominguez
- Ten Killers from Afar as Kelly Lucamone
- The Swamp of the Ravens as Inspector
- The King is the Best Mayor as Conde
1973
- Attack of the Blind Dead as Mayor Duncan
- The Guerrilla as Juan
- Karate, Fist and Beans as Espartero
- Man with the Golden Winchester as Colonel Michel Leblanche
- Three Supermen of the West as FBI Director
- The Playboy and His Sprees as Toni López
1972
- The Boldest Job in the West as Reyes
- Souliotes as Ali Pasas
- Where the Bullets Fly
- Too Much Gold for One Gringo as Fermín Rojas
- You Are a Traitor and I Will Kill You! as Sebastian
- Fabulous Trinity as Coronel Jiménez
- Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return as Carrancho
- Forbidden Love as Comisario
1971
- Dig Your Grave Friend... Sabata's Coming as Leon Pompera
- And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave as Pancho Corrales
- 28th October, 5:30 as Tryfonas Platanias
- X312 - Flight to Hell as Bill - Steward / Paco
1970
- In the Folds of the Flesh as Pascal Gorriot
- The Invisible Man's Love Life as The Game-Keeper
- Stagecoach of the Condemned as Leon Pomparo / Ramón Sartana
- At the Battle of Crete as Felix and Maria's father
- Surprise Attack as El Pernas
- La banda de los tres crisantemos as Burton
1969
- Simón Bolívar as Fernando Gonzales
- Tarzan in the Golden Grotto as Hotel owner
- Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven as Bill Cochran
- Franco, Ciccio and the Pirate Blackbeard as Il Pirata Barbanera
- Amor a todo gas as Wagner
- The Magnificent Tony Carrera as Einstein
1968
- If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death as Jose Manuel Mendoza
- Night of Hate as Fernando Gonzales
- Go For Broke as Carrancha
- Requiem for a Gringo as Porfirio Carranza
- Wrath of God as Burd
- Blood Calls to Blood as Sancho Rodriguez
- Ciccio Forgives, I Don't as El Diablo / El Pantera
1967
- The Big Gundown as Capt. Segura
- 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'
- $10,000 for a Massacre as 'Stardust' Vasquez
- Clint the Stranger as Ross
- Mission Phantom as Prof. Higgins
- A Man and a Colt as Don Carlos
- Massacre Mania as Professor Kenitz
- Wanted Johnny Texas as Col. Stewart
- El secreto de papá
1966
- Django Shoots First as Gordon
- Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun as General Emilio Siqueiros
- Arizona Colt as Gordon
- Seven Guns for the MacGregors as Miguel
- The Big Hit of Surcouf as Le geolier
- Taste of Killing as Sanchez
- Seven Guns for Timothy as Sancho Rodrigo Rodriguez
- Almost Perfect Crime as Omar
- Seven Dollars on Red as El Chacal
- Dynamite Jim as Pablo Reyes
- The Tough One as El Lobo
- Il vostro superagente Flit as Smirnoff
1965
- The Return of Ringo as Esteban Fuentes
- A Pistol for Ringo as Sancho
- Kingdom of the Silver Lion as Padischah
- The Wild Men of Kurdistan as Padischah
- $100,000 for Ringo as Chuck
- From the Orient with Fury as Loud patron in Paris restaurant
- Historias de la televisión as Presentador TV
- Man from Canyon City as Carrancho
- Texas Jim as Sancho / Pancho
- Totò d'Arabia as Ali el Buzur
- Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace as Juan Carrancho
- Two Idiots at Fort Alamo as Sergeant Fidhouse
- Doc, Hands of Steel as Pablo Reyes
- Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell as Colonel Dolukin
1964
- Backfire as Ilmaz
- Minnesota Clay as Dominique Ortiz Mendoza
- Crimen as El Juez
- The Pitiless Three as Pedro Ramirez
- Hour of Death as Scometti
- I due toreri as Don Alonso
- Two Gangsters in the Wild West as Rio
- Gunmen Of The Rio Grande as Pancho Bogan
- Black Angel of the Mississippi as Garcia
- The New Cinderella as Fernando
1963
- 55 Days at Peking as Belgian Minister (uncredited)
- José María as El Barrigas
- Magic Fountain as Priest
- The Ceremony as Shaoush
- The Sign of the Coyote as Lugones Brother
- The Secret of the Black Widow as Slim
- The Implacable Three as Diego Abriles
- No temas a la ley as Eugenio - Le patron de l'hôtel
- El precio de un asesino as Rufo
1962
- Lawrence of Arabia as Turkish Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Son of Captain Blood as Timothy Thomas
- My Son, the Hero as Prison Overseer (uncredited)
- Zorro the Avenger as Sargento
- The Carpet of Horror as Gunman
1961
- King of Kings as Mad man
- El pobre García as Elías
- Madame as Pommier
- Goliath Against the Giants as Namathos
- 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
- Der Löwe von Babylon as Prof. Ignatz Pfotenhauer
- In Cold Blood as Enrique
- Luxury Cabin as Ernesto
- Two Men in Town as Gregorio
1958
- Patio andaluz
- Die Sklavenkarawane as Prof. Ignaz Pfotenhauer
- The Inveterate Bachelor
- ¡Viva lo imposible! as John
- El inquilino as Jiménez
- You, Your Mother, and Me as il turco
- 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
- Pasión en el mar as Vicente
- Cuerda de presos as Juan Díaz de Garayo, 'El Sacamantecas'
- Fail in Communism as Pedro
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
- The Adventurer of Seville as Sir Albert
- Judas' Kiss as Padre del condenado
- Intriga en el escenario as Policía 1º
- Castles in Spain as Posadero
- Murió hace quince años as Joaquín Campos
1953
- La alegre caravana
- La belle de Cadix as Padre gitano
- Airport as Mr. Fogg
- Nadie lo sabrá as Ángel
- I Was a Parish Priest as Barrona
- María Dolores as Antonio
1952
- Estrella de Sierra Morena as Rafael
- Path to the Kingdom as Mr. Evans (as Fernando Sancho)
- The Eyes Leave a Trace as Comensal irascible
- De Madrid al cielo as Empresario de "El Paraíso"
- Último día as Profesor Lorenzo
1951
- La señora de Fátima as Comunista 1
- Dawn of America as Pedro Salcedo
- The Great Galeoto as Vizconde de Nebreda
- Andalusia
- El sueño de Andalucía as Empresario
1950
- Agustina of Aragon as Escudella
- Servicio en la mar as Don Tofol
- La mujer de nadie as Martorell
- Date With My Old Love
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
- La mies es mucha as Clarenberg
- La muralla feliz as Mariano García
- Si te hubieses casado conmigo as Taxista
1947
- Abel Sánchez
- Cuando los ángeles duermen as Peral
- Mariona Rebull as Señor Roig
- El ángel gris
- Heroes del 95 as General Tampico
1944
- Ni pobre, ni rico, sino todo lo contrario
- Orosia as Mañico bronquista (uncredited)
1941
- Stowaway on Board! as Camarero