Alberto de Mendoza
Actor
Biography
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.
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.
Filmography
Horror Express
as Father Pujardov 1972
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
as Sergeant Brandon 1971
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
as Neil Wardh 1971
And Then There Were None
as Otto Martino 1974
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
as John Stanley 1971
One on Top of the Other
as Henry Dumurrier 1969
Tapas
as Don Mariano 2006
Forgotten Pistolero
as Tomas 1969
Psychout for Murder
as Francesco 1969
The People Who Own the Dark
as Prof. Fulton 1976
The Dictator's Guns
as Hendrix 1965
Bossa Nova
as Juan 2000
Open Season
as Martin 1974
A Bullet for Sandoval
as Lucky 1969
Manaos
as Mario Buendía 1979
Cleopatra
as Víctor 2003