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person_profile-Tony Kendall

Tony Kendall Died at age: 73

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Tony Kendall

Date of Birth:

Aug 22, 1936

Country of birth:

Italy

Died:

Nov 28, 2009

Biography of

Tony Kendall

    Tony Kendall (22 August 1936 – 28 November 2009) was an Italian model turned film actor with over 50 film credits that reflect the trends of popular European cinema in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

    Born as Luciano Stella, Kendall was formerly a model for Italian Fumetti, comics done in photographs.

    He changed his name to Tony Kendall at the suggestion of Vittorio De Sica in the fashion of many Italian actors whose films were shown in countries outside of Italy in the days when European films proliferated. Stella made his film debut in Femmine Tre Volte in 1959 but didn't make another appearance until he used his new name of Tony Kendall in Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963) one of the sword and sandal craze of films popular in the early 1960s.

    Kendall is most famous for his various teamings with Brad Harris, with the two predating Terence Hill and Bud Spencer as a popular and prolific action team. In the derivative world of the European cinema of the 1960s, Kendall and Harris first teamed up in two sauerkraut western films "inspired" by the successful German Karl May Winnetou series with Harris as a Lex Barker clone and Kendall as a Native American "Chief Black Eagle" in The Pirates of the Mississippi (1963) and Black Eagle of Santa Fe (1965).

    With the international success of the James Bond films and the German Jerry Cotton series, Kendall became best known for his role as private detective Joe Walker in the seven films of the Eurospy Kommissar X series where he played opposite Brad Harris in the role of New York Police Captain Tom Rowland. The popularity of Batman (TV series) led to Harris and Kendall appearing in The Three Fantastic Supermen (1967) the first in a long series that had stunt work performed by a young Jackie Chan (“The Three Fantastic Supermen in the Orient”).

    Kendall has prominently appeared in other varieties of European cinema in the 1960s and 1970s such as Giallo horror (The Whip and the Body, 1963), spaghetti westerns (as Django in Django Against Sartana, 1970, and Gunman of 100 Crosses, 1971), crime movies such as Machine Gun McCain (1969), and adventure films such as Oil! (1977). He also appeared in European versions of women in prison (The Big Bust Out, 1972), zombie horror (Return of the Blind Dead, 1973), and films inspired by The Godfather (Corleone, 1978). Aside from an appearance in Alex l'ariete (2000), Kendall's last film role was in On the Dark Continent in 1993.

    Source: Article "Tony Kendall (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Tony Kendall

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Filmography of

Tony Kendall

Found 48 Movies in total

Die X-Männer schlagen zurück

Jo Louis Walker / Kommissar X ( Actor )

... 2012

Voce del verbo amore

Ettore ( Actor )

... 2007

Alex the Ram

Comandante ( Actor )

... 2000

On the Dark Continent

Ernesto ( Actor )

... 1992

The Invisible Wall

Colonnello Aeronautica ( Actor )

... 1991

Thrilling Love

Alberto Stuart ( Actor )

... 1989

Death Stone

Miguel Gomez ( Actor )

... 1987

Attila Scourge of God

Serpicio ( Actor )

... 1982

Crime on the Highway

Mr. Tarquini ( Actor )

... 1982

Le Guignolo

Fredo ( Actor )

... 1980

Cop or Hood

Inspector Rey ( Actor )

... 1979

Corleone

Salvatore Sperlazzo ( Actor )

... 1978

Closed Circuit

Roberto Vinci ( Actor )

... 1978

Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century

Cliff Chandler ( Actor )

... 1977

Oil

Tony ( Actor )

... 1977

La Missione del Mandrillo

Pietro Rossini ( Actor )

... 1975

Tales of Erotica

Bitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle") ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1973

La ragazza fuoristrada

Carlo ( Actor )

... 1973

The Loreley's Grasp

Sigurd ( Actor )

... 1973

Attack of the Blind Dead

Jack Marlowe ( Actor )

... 1973

The Night of the Last Day

Beppe Banti ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1972

Blood Story

Abraham French ( Actor )

... 1972

Siege of Terror

Andrew ( Actor )

... 1972

Gunman of One Hundred Crosses

Sartana / Django ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1971

Brother Outlaw

Dakota Thompson ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1970

... 1970

Love Birds

Nino ( Actor )

... 1969

Hate Is My God

Il Nero/Carl ( Actor )

... 1969

Island of Lost Girls

Kommissar X ( Actor )

... 1969

Machine Gun McCain

Pete Zacari ( Actor )

... 1969

Kill, Panther, Kill!

Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X' ( Actor )

... 1968

Kill Me Gently

Kommissar X ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1967

The Criminals of the Metropolis

sergente Perier ( Actor )

... 1967

So Darling, So Deadly

Kommissar X ( Actor )

... 1966

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill

Kommissar X ( Actor )

... 1966

Black Eagle of Santa Fe

Chief Black Eagle ( Actor )

... 1965

... 1964

Hyena of London

Henry ( Actor )

... 1964

Brennus, Enemy of Rome

Quinto Fabio ( Actor )

... 1963

The Pirates of the Mississippi

Schwarzer Adler ( Actor )

... 1963

The Whip and the Body

Christian Menliff ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1957