Fernando Rey

Fernando Rey (September 20, 1917 – March 9, 1994) — best known as Fernando Rey — was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel (Tristana, 1970; Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972; That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977) and as a drug lord in The French Connection (1971), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century. The debonair Rey was described by French Connection producer Philip D'Antoni as "the last of the Continental guys". He achieved his greatest notoriety after he turned 50: "Perhaps it is a pity that my success came so late in life", he told The Times of Madrid in 1973. "It might have been better to have been successful while young, like El Cordobes in the bullring. Then your life is all before you to enjoy it."

Known For: Acting

Born: A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, 1917-09-20

Died: 1994-03-09

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1939	Los cuatro robinsones		0
2	1940	El rey que rabió	Extra (uncredited)	0
3	1940	Leyenda rota	Extra (uncredited)	0
4	1944	Eugenia de Montijo	Duque de Alba	50
5	1945	Los últimos de Filipinas	Juan Chamizo	58
6	1946	La pródiga	José	0
7	1947	Reina santa	Infante Alfonso	45
8	1947	Don Quixote	Sansón Carrasco	56
9	1947	Fuenteovejuna	Frondoso	57
10	1948	Si te hubieses casado conmigo	Enrique Marín Rubio	52
11	1948	Locura de amor	Don Felipe "el Hermoso"	49
12	1948	Noche de reyes		0
13	1948	Mare nostrum	Ulises / Capitán Ferragut	57
14	1949	Noche de Reyes		0
15	1949	Aventuras de Juan Lucas	Juan Lucas	0
16	1949	Sabela De Cambados	Narrator (voice)	50
17	1950	Agustina of Aragon	General Palafox/Lorenzo, el pastor	60
18	1951	Black Sky	Ángel López Veiga	61
19	1951	Air Lashings	Narrador (voz)	30
20	1951	La señora de Fátima	Lorenzo Duarte	58
21	1952	The Devil's Roundup	Atracador	0
22	1952	Flamenco	(voz)	66
23	1952	La laguna negra	Miguel	80
24	1953	The Lovers of Toledo		10
25	1953	Cabaret	Carlos Jiménez	45
26	1953	Welcome Mr. Marshall!	Narrador (voz)	74
27	1953	Airport	Fernando	53
28	1954	Cristo		0
29	1954	Las últimas banderas	Miguel Bermejo	0
30	1954	Crimen en el entreacto		0
31	1954	El alcalde de Zalamea	El Rey	75
32	1954	Rebeldía	Capellán	0
33	1954	Comedians	Miguel	57
34	1955	The Miracle of Marcelino	Monje narrador	72
35	1955	Billete para Tánger	Inspector	0
36	1956	La vida en un bloc	(voice) (uncredited)	50
37	1956	The Adventures of Gil Blas	Capitán Rolando	0
38	1956	Playa prohibida		50
39	1956	Don Juan	Don Iñigo	62
40	1957	The Singer from Mexico	Cartoni - l'impresario (uncredited)	63
41	1957	Faustina	Valentín	57
42	1957	Day of Fear		0
43	1957	Madrugada	Mauricio (voice) (uncredited)	50
44	1957	Un marido de ida y vuelta	Paco	40
45	1958	Sevilla Penitente		0
46	1958	The Night Heaven Fell	Tío (alternate version)	49
47	1958	Revenge	Writer	58
48	1958	La Rana Verde	Narrator (voice)	0
49	1958	¡Viva lo imposible!	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	55
50	1959	Parque de Madrid	Don Luis	60
51	1959	Mission in Morocco	Princ Achmed	0
52	1959	Sonatas	Captain Casares	46
53	1959	The Last Days of Pompeii	Arbaces, High Priest of Isis	61
54	1959	Poison at 2:30	Ramón	60
55	1960	Culpables	Mario	57
56	1960	Vida sin risas		0
57	1960	Don Lucio and Brother Pío	Señor Aguilar	72
58	1960	The Revolt of the Slaves	Valerio	56
59	1961	Teresa	Profesor Héctor de la Barrera	71
60	1961	Goliath Against the Giants	Bokan the Usurper	57
61	1961	Fantasmas en la casa	Raimundo Rodríguez de Toledo	73
62	1961	Siempre es domingo	Juez Andonelli	50
63	1961	The Savage Guns	Don Hernán	33
64	1962	Rogelia	Máximo García	35
65	1962	Viridiana	Don Jaime	76
66	1962	My Son, the Hero	Hoher Priester	57
67	1962	Face of Terror	Dr. Charles Taylor	58
68	1963	The Castilian	Ramiro II, rey de León	0
69	1963	Scheherazade	Al Fakid	77
70	1963	The Running Man	Police Official	66
71	1963	The Ceremony	Sanchez	51
72	1964	El señor de La Salle	Luis XIV	73
73	1964	Backfire	Commissioner of Beirut harbor	64
74	1964	The Rash One	El Rico Pintor	55
75	1964	The New Cinderella	Juan Echarre	58
76	1964	The Palomos	Don Alberto	70
77	1964	Fin de semana	Entrevistador	60
78	1964	La hora incógnita	Sacerdote	50
79	1965	Don Quijote	Der Herzog	0
80	1965	Samson and Gideon	Lo straniero / The Stranger - Angel of the Lord	60
81	1965	The Devil Also Cries	Ramòn Quiroga	58
82	1965	España insólita	(voice)	60
83	1965	Son of a Gunfighter	Don Pedro Fortuna	42
84	1965	Legacy of the Incas	President Castillo	58
85	1965	The Amazing Doctor G	Goldginger	56
86	1965	Espionage in Lisbon	Agent of the New World Organization	0
87	1965	Der Marquis - der Mann, der sich verkaufen wollte	Verleger Ramos	30
88	1965	Chimes at Midnight	Worcester	71
89	1966	Attack of the Robots	Sir Percy	51
90	1966	Zampo y yo	Zampo	52
91	1966	El Greco	Felipe II.	50
92	1966	Return of the Seven	Priest	62
93	1966	Navajo Joe	Reverend Rattigan	62
94	1967	The Desperate Ones	Ibram	0
95	1967	Historia de la frivolidad	Gent	70
96	1967	The Viscount		59
97	1967	Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos!	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	50
98	1967	Run Like a Thief	Col. Romero	0
99	1967	Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes	Filipe II	75
100	1967	Amor en el aire	Carlos Mª Saldiez	52
101	1968	Los preparativos		0
102	1968	Villa Rides	Fuentes	63
103	1968	The Immortal Story	Merchant	71
104	1969	Guns of the Magnificent Seven	Quintero	52
105	1969	Land Raiders	Priest	51
106	1969	A Candidate for a Killing	Marco Augusto	45
107	1969	The Price of Power	Pinkerton	60
108	1970	The Adventurers	Jaime Xenos	45
109	1970	Tristana	Don Lope	72
110	1970	Aoom		54
111	1970	Wrath of the Wind	Don Antonio	50
112	1970	Compañeros	Prof. Xantos	65
113	1971	The Great Swindle	Luis	44
114	1971	Cold Eyes of Fear	Juez Flower	50
115	1971	The Light at the Edge of the World	Captain Moriz	59
116	1971	The French Connection	Alain Charnier	75
117	1971	A Town Called Hell	Old Blind Man	49
118	1972	This Kind of Love	Giovanna's father	55
119	1972	The Two Faces of Fear	Inspector Nardi	49
120	1972	Antony and Cleopatra	Lepidus	56
121	1972	White Sister	le directeur de l'hôpital	63
122	1972	Canticle	Padrino Elisa	35
123	1972	La duda	Don Rodrigo - Conde de Albrit	0
124	1972	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Don Rafael	75
125	1973	Tarot	Arthur	49
126	1973	High Crime	Cafiero	63
127	1973	One Way	Mr. David	62
128	1973	Fall of a Body	M. Nansoit	54
129	1973	White Fang	Father Oatley	64
130	1974	¿... Y el prójimo?	Luis Ignacio	0
131	1974	Violent Blood Bath	Oscar	59
132	1974	Say it with Flowers	Jacques Berger	40
133	1974	The Murri Affair	Prof. Murri	66
134	1974	The Woman with Red Boots	Perrot	57
135	1975	Smiling Maniacs	Judge Vanini	0
136	1975	French Connection II	Alain Charnier	68
137	1975	Seven Beauties	Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner	75
138	1976	Striptease	Alfonso	40
139	1976	El segundo poder	Cardenal	52
140	1976	Illustrious Corpses	Security Minister	68
141	1976	Manuela	Don Ramón	57
142	1976	A Matter of Time	Charles Van Maar	51
143	1976	The Desert of the Tartars	Nathanson	68
144	1976	Voyage of the Damned	President Bru	59
145	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Gaspar	90
146	1977	Elisa, My Life	Luis	68
147	1977	Eyes Behind the Wall	Ivano	64
148	1977	The Assignment	Bidara	60
149	1977	That Obscure Object of Desire	Mathieu Faber	74
150	1978	The Last Romantic Lover	Max	43
151	1978	Rebeldía	Don Luis	0
152	1979	Traffic Jam	Carlo	68
153	1979	Quintet	Grigor	51
154	1980	Memorias de Leticia Valle	Don Fernando Valle	60
155	1980	Cabo Blanco	Police Captain Torredo	53
156	1981	Lady of the Camelias	Count Stackelberg	62
157	1981	Honey	Editor	48
158	1981	The Crime of Cuenca	Contreras	68
159	1981	Chaste and Pure	Antonio Di Maggio	42
160	1981	Trágala, perro	Juez	63
161	1982	A Estrangeira	André	70
162	1982	Looking for Jesus	Don Filippo	52
163	1982	Monsignor	Cardinal Santoni	44
164	1983	Bearn	Don Antonio	55
165	1984	The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel	Self	70
166	1984	The Hit	Policeman	64
167	1984	A Strange Passion	Piacchi	44
168	1985	Our Father	Cardinal	46
169	1985	Rustlers' Rhapsody	Railroad Colonel	56
170	1985	Angel of Death	Ohmei Felsberg	44
171	1985	Black Arrow	Warwick	67
172	1985	The House of Ulloa		0
173	1985	Star Knight	Fray Lupo	41
174	1986	Paradise Hotel	Joseph	0
175	1986	Saving Grace	Cardinal Stefano Biondi	61
176	1986	Luis Buñuel: constructor de infiernos	Himself	60
177	1987	Mi general	Director Almirante	54
178	1987	The Enchanted Forest	Sr. D'Abondo	68
179	1988	The Tunnel	Allende	49
180	1988	Pasodoble	Don Nuño	49
181	1988	Winter Diary	Padre	50
182	1988	Scent of a Crime	Fayón	43
183	1989	Buñuel	Self	0
184	1989	Le Grand Secret	Paul Corbet	0
185	1989	La moglie ingenua e il marito malato	Il professor Rune	0
186	1989	Esmeralda Bay	Ramos	44
187	1990	Pictures of Europe	Self	0
188	1990	Naked Tango	Judge Torres	63
189	1990	Breath of Life	Gran Magno	0
190	1990	Drums of Fire	Papa Pablo V	65
191	1992	El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes	Don Quijote	85
192	1992	Don Quixote	Closing Scene Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	61
193	1992	Blood and Dust	Sultan Saladin	0
194	1992	After the Dream	Ramiro Lanza	50
195	1992	1492: Conquest of Paradise	Marchena	63
196	1992	L'Atlantide	Father Mauritius	50
197	1992	The Sow	Fray Juan	58
198	1993	Madregilda	Franco's Father	54
199	1994	On the Far Side of the Tunnel	Miguel	44
200	1994	El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?	Gregorio	43
201	2000	Speaking of Buñuel	Self (archive footage)	59
202	2019	El Quijote desde la platea	Self - Actor / Don Quixote (archive footage)	45
203		Señores del espacio		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Don Quijote von der Mancha	Der Herzog / le duc	0
2	1976	Origins of the Mafia	Baron Della Spina	0
3	1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Gaspar	78
4	1985	A.D.	Seneca	49
5	1985	Los Pazos de Ulloa	Sr. De La Lage	45
6	1989	Le Grand Secret	Paul Corbet	0
7	1989	Blaues Blut	Dekker	0
8	1989	Il ricatto	Magistrato Di Nola	0
9	1989	I promessi sposi	Conte zio	64
10	1991	Imágenes perdidas	Himself - Narrator	0
11	1992	Don Quijote de la Mancha	Don Quijote	52
12	1993	Mission of Love	Pacheco	0
13	1994	Arnau	Compte de Barcelona	0