Tony Kendall
Actor
August 22, 1936 — November 28, 2009 (73 years)
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.
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 & Shows on Plex
Known For
Filmography
| 2007 | Voce del verbo amore · as Ettore |
| 2000 | Alex l'ariete · as Comandante |
| 1992 | Nel continente nero · as Ernesto |
| 1991 | The Invisible Wall · as Colonnello Aeronautica |
| 1991 | I ragazzi del muretto · as Padre Di Valeria |
| 1989 | Thrilling Love · as Alberto Stuart |
| 1987 | Der Stein des Todes · as Miguel Gomez |
| 1982 | Attila · as Serpicio |
| 1982 | Delitto sull'autostrada · as Mr. Tarquini |
| 1980 | Le Guignolo · as Fredo |
| 1979 | Cop or Hood · as Inspector Rey |
| 1978 | Corleone · as Salvatore Sperlazzo |
| 1978 | Closed Circuit · as Roberto Vinci |
| 1977 | Zanna Bianca e il grande Kid · as Franky James |
| 1977 | Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century · as Cliff ChandlerOn Plex |
| 1977 | Oil · as Tony |
| 1973 | La dernière bourrée à Paris · as Victor |
| 1973 | Return of the Evil Dead · as Jack Marlowe |
| 1973 | They Were Called Three Musketeers But They Were Four · as D'artagnan |
| 1973 | The Off-Road Girl · as Carlo |
| 1973 | The Loreley's Grasp · as Sigurd |
| 1972 | Tales of Erotica · as Bitto Ranieri (segment "the Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "the Miracle") |
| 1972 | The Big Bust-Out · as JeffOn Plex |
| 1971 | FBI Operation Pakistan · as Kommissar X |
| 1971 | Gunman of One Hundred Crosses · as Sartana / Django |
| 1971 | In the Eye of the Hurricane · as MichelOn Plex |
| 1971 | Brother Outlaw · as Dakota Thompson |
| 1970 | Siege of Terror · as Andrew |
| 1970 | Twilight Avengers · as John |
| 1970 | Django Defies Sartana · as DjangoOn Plex |
| 1969 | Komm, süßer Tod · as Nino |
| 1969 | Hate Is My God · as Il Nero/carl |
| 1969 | Three Golden Serpents · as Kommissar X |
| 1969 | Machine Gun McCain · as Pete Zacari |
| 1968 | Kommissar X - Drei blaue Panther · as Jo Louis Walker / 'kommissar X' |
| 1967 | Kill Me Gently · as Kommissar X |
| 1967 | The Three Fantastic Supermen · as Tony |
| 1967 | I criminali della metropoli · as Sergente Perier |
| 1966 | Agent Joe Walker: Operation Far East · as Kommissar X |
| 1966 | Kommissar X - Drei gelbe Katzen · as Kommissar X |
| 1966 | Kommissar X - Jagd auf Unbekannt · as Kommissar X |
| 1965 | Black Eagle of Santa Fe · as Chief Black EagleOn Plex |
| 1965 | Serenade für zwei Spione · as Pepino |
| 1964 | The Masked Man Against the Pirates · as Captain Ruiz |
| 1964 | La jena di Londra · as Henry |
| 1963 | Brennus, Enemy of Rome · as Quinto Fabio |
| 1963 | Die Flußpiraten vom Mississippi · as Schwarzer Adler |
| 1963 | The Whip and the Body · as Cristiano MenliffOn Plex |
| 1957 |