1936-08-22 ( 88 years old ) in Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
Movies
Die X-Männer schlagen zurück
2012-10-05
Il giorno della Shoah
2010-01-27
Voce del verbo amore
2007-04-27
Alex the Ram
2000-07-21
On the Dark Continent
1992-09-25
The Invisible Wall
1991-09-13
Thrilling Love
1989-02-23
Death Stone
1987-07-02
Attila Scourge of God
1982-12-22
Crime on the Highway
1982-09-30
Le Guignolo
1980-03-26
Cop or Hood
1979-03-28
White Fang and the Kid
1978-12-15
Corleone
1978-11-10
Closed Circuit
1978-02-22
Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
1977-12-23
Oil
1977-02-28
Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted
1975-05-28
La Missione del Mandrillo
1975-03-22
Tales of Erotica
1973-11-16
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
1973-10-31
La ragazza fuoristrada
1973-08-11
The Loreley's Grasp
1973-06-15
Attack of the Blind Dead
1973-05-17
The Night of the Last Day
1973-01-01
The Big Bust-Out
1972-05-25
Blood Story
1972-05-09
Siege of Terror
1972-04-03
The Tiger Gang
1971-08-20
Gunman of One Hundred Crosses
1971-07-03
In the Eye of the Hurricane
1971-04-23
Brother Outlaw
1971-02-19
Fighters from Ave Maria
1970-10-15
Django Challenges Sartana
1970-04-03
Love Birds
1969-11-07
Hate Is My God
1969-05-23
Island of Lost Girls
1969-04-18
Machine Gun McCain
1969-04-01
Kill, Panther, Kill!
1968-03-30
Kill Me Gently
1967-03-23
The Three Fantastic Supermen
1967-02-04
The Criminals of the Metropolis
1967-01-01
So Darling, So Deadly
1966-08-05
Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
1966-05-17
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
1966-03-11
Serenade for Two Spies
1965-08-18
Black Eagle of Santa Fe
1965-03-11
The Masked Man Against the Pirates
1964-07-12
Hyena of London
1964-06-23
Brennus, Enemy of Rome
1963-12-23
The Pirates of the Mississippi
1963-10-17
The Whip and the Body
1963-08-29
Female Three Times
1957-10-25
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