Tony Kendall

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Rome, Lazio, Italy, 1936-08-22

Died: 2009-11-28

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Female Three Times		70
2	1963	The Whip and the Body	Cristiano Menliff	65
3	1963	The Pirates of the Mississippi	Schwarzer Adler	66
4	1963	Brennus, Enemy of Rome	Quinto Fabio	30
5	1964	Hyena of London	Henry	30
6	1964	The Masked Man Against the Pirates	Captain Ruiz	0
7	1965	Black Eagle of Santa Fe	Chief Black Eagle	61
8	1965	Serenade for Two Spies	Pepino	53
9	1966	Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill	Kommissar X	62
10	1966	Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick	Kommissar X	60
11	1966	So Darling, So Deadly	Kommissar X	68
12	1967	The Criminals of the Metropolis	sergente Perier	35
13	1967	The Three Fantastic Supermen	Tony	58
14	1967	Kill Me Gently	Kommissar X	65
15	1968	Kill, Panther, Kill!	Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X'	68
16	1969	Machine Gun McCain	Pete Zacari	62
17	1969	Island of Lost Girls	Kommissar X	64
18	1969	Hate Is My God	Il Nero/Carl	45
19	1969	Love Birds	Nino	40
20	1970	Django Challenges Sartana	Django	52
21	1970	Fighters from Ave Maria	John	67
22	1971	Brother Outlaw	Dakota Thompson	40
23	1971	In the Eye of the Hurricane	Michel	64
24	1971	Gunman of One Hundred Crosses	Sartana / Django	44
25	1971	The Tiger Gang	Kommissar X	62
26	1972	Siege of Terror	Andrew	62
27	1972	Blood Story	Abraham French	20
28	1972	The Crucified Girls of San Ramon	Jeff	43
29	1973	The Night of the Last Day	Beppe Banti	0
30	1973	Attack of the Blind Dead	Jack Marlowe	58
31	1973	The Loreley's Grasp	Sigurd	50
32	1973	La ragazza fuoristrada	Carlo	60
33	1973	Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro	D'Artagnan	0
34	1973	La Dernière Bourrée à Paris	Victor	10
35	1973	Tales of Erotica	Bitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle")	44
36	1975	La Missione del Mandrillo	Pietro Rossini	0
37	1975	Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted	Giovanni Pizzolla	10
38	1977	Oil	Tony	51
39	1977	Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century	Cliff Chandler	37
40	1978	Closed Circuit	Roberto Vinci	66
41	1978	Corleone	Salvatore Sperlazzo	73
42	1978	White Fang and the Kid	Franky James	60
43	1979	Cop or Hood	Inspector Rey	64
44	1980	Le Guignolo	Fredo	61
45	1982	Crime on the Highway	Mr. Tarquini	60
46	1982	Attila Scourge of God	Serpicio	60
47	1987	Death Stone	Miguel Gomez	30
48	1989	Thrilling Love	Alberto Stuart	33
49	1991	The Invisible Wall	Colonnello Aeronautica	69
50	1992	On the Dark Continent	Ernesto	55
51	2000	Alex the Ram	Comandante	24
52	2007	Voce del verbo amore	Ettore	47
53	2010	Il giorno della Shoah	nazista	0
54	2012	Die X-Männer schlagen zurück	Jo Louis Walker / Kommissar X	75
55		Snow White		0

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Title

Role

Vote Average

1957