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