Person
Alberto de Mendoza
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 21, 1923
- Died
- Dec 12, 2011
- From
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.
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Delusions of Grandeur
Horror Express
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
And Then There Were None
One on Top of the Other
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
The Dictator's Guns
Tapas
Forgotten Pistolero
Bossa Nova
The People Who Own the Dark
Psychout for Murder
Open Season
Manaos
Cleopatra
A Bullet for Sandoval
To Love Ophelia