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Tony Kendall‌

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1936-08-22

Popularity

star7.0

Tony Kendall

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Tony Kendall

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1936-08-22

Popularity

star7.0

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. 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.

Movie Credits

Kill, Panther, Kill!

Kill, Panther, Kill!‌
star6.8
calendar 1968

So Darling, So Deadly

So Darling, So Deadly‌
star6.8
calendar 1966

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill‌
star6.2
calendar 1966

Kill Me Gently

Kill Me Gently‌
star6.5
calendar 1967

Island of Lost Girls

Island of Lost Girls‌
star6.4
calendar 1969

The Tiger Gang

The Tiger Gang‌
star6.2
calendar 1971

Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick

Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick‌
star6.0
calendar 1966

The Masked Man Against the Pirates

The Masked Man Against the Pirates‌
star0.0
calendar 1964

Attack of the Blind Dead

Attack of the Blind Dead‌
star5.8
calendar 1973

The Whip and the Body

The Whip and the Body‌
star6.5
calendar 1963

The Loreley's Grasp

The Loreley's Grasp‌
star5.0
calendar 1973

Machine Gun McCain

Machine Gun McCain‌
star6.1
calendar 1969

The Three Fantastic Supermen

The Three Fantastic Supermen‌
star5.8
calendar 1967

Il giorno della Shoah

Il giorno della Shoah‌
star0.0
calendar 2010

Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century

Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century‌
star3.5
calendar 1977

Closed Circuit

Closed Circuit‌
star7.2
calendar 1978

Hyena of London

Hyena of London‌
star3.0
calendar 1964

In the Eye of the Hurricane

In the Eye of the Hurricane‌
star6.5
calendar 1971

Gunman of One Hundred Crosses

Gunman of One Hundred Crosses‌
star4.4
calendar 1971

Brother Outlaw

Brother Outlaw‌
star4.0
calendar 1971

White Fang and the Kid

White Fang and the Kid‌
star6.0
calendar 1978

Hate Is My God

Hate Is My God‌
star4.5
calendar 1969

Django Challenges Sartana

Django Challenges Sartana‌
star5.2
calendar 1970

Fighters from Ave Maria

Fighters from Ave Maria‌
star6.7
calendar 1970

Death Stone

Death Stone‌
star3.0
calendar 1987

Corleone

Corleone‌
star7.4
calendar 1978

Die X-Männer schlagen zurück

Die X-Männer schlagen zurück‌
star7.5
calendar 2012

La ragazza fuoristrada

La ragazza fuoristrada‌
star6.0
calendar 1973

Love Birds

Love Birds‌
star4.0
calendar 1969

Serenade for Two Spies

Serenade for Two Spies‌
star7.5
calendar 1965

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris‌
star1.0
calendar 1973

Attila Scourge of God

Attila Scourge of God‌
star6.0
calendar 1982

Brennus, Enemy of Rome

Brennus, Enemy of Rome‌
star3.0
calendar 1963

La Missione del Mandrillo

La Missione del Mandrillo‌
star0.0
calendar 1975

Blood Story

Blood Story‌
star2.0
calendar 1972

Snow White

Snow White‌
star0.0
calendar

Tales of Erotica

Tales of Erotica‌
star4.4
calendar 1973

Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted

Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted‌
star1.0
calendar 1975

Black Eagle of Santa Fe

Black Eagle of Santa Fe‌
star6.1
calendar 1965

The Pirates of the Mississippi

The Pirates of the Mississippi‌
star6.6
calendar 1963

The Criminals of the Metropolis

The Criminals of the Metropolis‌
star2.0
calendar 1967

Siege of Terror

Siege of Terror‌
star6.2
calendar 1972

The Big Bust-Out

The Big Bust-Out‌
star4.4
calendar 1972

Voce del verbo amore

Voce del verbo amore‌
star4.7
calendar 2007

Le Guignolo

Le Guignolo‌
star6.1
calendar 1980

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall‌
star6.9
calendar 1991

Oil

Oil‌
star5.1
calendar 1977

Female Three Times

Female Three Times‌
star7.0
calendar 1957

Thrilling Love

Thrilling Love‌
star3.0
calendar 1989

Cop or Hood

Cop or Hood‌
star6.3
calendar 1979

On the Dark Continent

On the Dark Continent‌
star5.5
calendar 1992

Alex the Ram

Alex the Ram‌
star2.4
calendar 2000

The Night of the Last Day

The Night of the Last Day‌
star0.0
calendar 1973

Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro

Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro‌
star0.0
calendar 1973

Crime on the Highway

Crime on the Highway‌
star6.0
calendar 1982

Tv Credits

Caccia al ladro d'autore

Caccia al ladro d'autore‌
star0.0
calendar 1985