Tony Kendall
57 movies · 1 TV show
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 22, 1936
- Died
- Nov 28, 2009 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Also known as
- Luciano Stella · Tony Kendal
Biography
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.
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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.
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Known for
Tony Kendall: movies and TV shows
Acting (58)
- Upcoming
- 2012 Die X-Männer schlagen zurück
as Jo Louis Walker / Kommissar X
- 2010 Il giorno della Shoah
as nazista
- 2007 Voce del verbo amore
as Ettore
- 2000 Alex the Ram
as Comandante
- 1993 On the Dark Continent
as Ernesto
- 1991 The Invisible Wall
as Colonnello Aeronautica
- 1989 Thrilling Love
as Alberto Stuart
- 1987 Death Stone
as Miguel Gomez
- 1987
- 1985
- 1982 Attila Scourge of God
as Serpicio
- 1982 Crime on the Highway
as Mr. Tarquini
- 1980 Le Guignolo
as Fredo
- 1979 Cop or Hood
as Inspector Rey
- 1978 White Fang and the Kid
as Franky James
- 1978 Corleone
as Salvatore Sperlazzo
- 1978 Closed Circuit
as Roberto Vinci
- 1977 Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
as Cliff Chandler
- 1977 Oil
as Tony
- 1975 Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted
as Giovanni Pizzolla
- 1975 La Missione del Mandrillo
as Pietro Rossini
- 1973 Tales of Erotica
as Bitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle")
- 1973 La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
as Victor
- 1973 Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro
as D'Artagnan
- 1973 The Off-Road Girl
as Carlo
- 1973 The Loreley's Grasp
as Sigurd
- 1973 Attack of the Blind Dead
as Jack Marlowe
- 1973 The Night of the Last Day
as Beppe Banti
- 1972 The Crucified Girls of San Ramon
as Jeff
- 1972 Blood Story
as Abraham French
- 1972 Siege of Terror
as Andrew
- 1971 The Tiger Gang
as Kommissar X
- 1971 Gunman of One Hundred Crosses
as Sartana / Django
- 1971 In the Eye of the Hurricane
as Michel
- 1971 Brother Outlaw
as Dakota Thompson
- 1970 Fighters from Ave Maria
as John
- 1970 Django Challenges Sartana
as Django
- 1969 Love Birds
as Nino
- 1969 Hate Is My God
as Il Nero/Carl
- 1969 Island of Lost Girls
as Kommissar X
- 1969 Machine Gun McCain
as Pete Zacari
- 1968 Kill, Panther, Kill!
as Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X'
- 1967 Kill Me Gently
as Kommissar X
- 1967 The Three Fantastic Supermen
as Tony
- 1967 The Criminals of the Metropolis
as sergente Perier
- 1966 So Darling, So Deadly
as Kommissar X
- 1966 Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
as Kommissar X
- 1966 Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
as Kommissar X
- 1965 Serenade for Two Spies
as Pepino
- 1965 Black Eagle of Santa Fe
as Chief Black Eagle
- 1964 L'uomo mascherato contro il corsaro nero
as Captain Ruiz
- 1964 The Masked Man Against the Pirates
as Captain Ruiz
- 1964 Hyena of London
as Henry
- 1963 Brennus, Enemy of Rome
as Quinto Fabio
- 1963 The Pirates of the Mississippi
as Schwarzer Adler
- 1963 The Whip and the Body
as Cristiano Menliff
- 1957