Tony Kendall

Known for ActingBorn 1936-08-22Died 2009-11-28Rome, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro

The Masked Man Against the Pirates

Die X-Männer schlagen zurück

Female Three Times

Corleone

The Off-Road Girl

Fighters from Ave Maria

Hate Is My God

The Invisible Wall

The Night of the Last Day

The Pirates of the Mississippi

Closed Circuit

Kill, Panther, Kill!

The Tiger Gang

So Darling, So Deadly

Kill Me Gently

Siege of Terror

Island of Lost Girls

Love Birds

White Fang and the Kid

Cop or Hood

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill

The Whip and the Body

In the Eye of the Hurricane

Serenade for Two Spies

Black Eagle of Santa Fe

Le Guignolo

Attila Scourge of God

Crime on the Highway

Machine Gun McCain

On the Dark Continent

Attack of the Blind Dead

Oil

Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

Hyena of London

The Three Fantastic Supermen

Death Stone

The Loreley's Grasp

Voce del verbo amore

Brennus, Enemy of Rome

Django Challenges Sartana

Tales of Erotica

Blood Story

Gunman of One Hundred Crosses

The Crucified Girls of San Ramon

Brother Outlaw

The Criminals of the Metropolis