Alberto de Mendoza
Actor
- Born
- January 21, 1923 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Died
- December 12, 2011 (age 88)
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.
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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.
Known for
Delusions of Grandeur
December 8, 1971
Horror Express
September 30, 1972
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
February 18, 1971
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
January 15, 1971
And Then There Were None
September 24, 1974
One on Top of the Other
August 15, 1969
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
August 16, 1971
The Dictator's Guns
June 18, 1965
Tapas
July 6, 2006
Forgotten Pistolero
October 17, 1969
Bossa Nova
February 18, 2000
The People Who Own the Dark
October 27, 1976
Acting103
- 2011Bad Truth as Ernesto
- 2006Tapas as Don Mariano
- 2003Cleopatra as Víctor
- 2001Lua de Outubro as Marcial Lopes
- 2000Bossa Nova as Juan
- 1996Lola Mora
- 1991Halloween Monster Bash as Father Pujandov (archive footage)
- 1984Los tigres de la memoria as Carlos
- 1984Nights Without Moons and Suns as Cairo
- 1981The Underground Man