Alberto de Mendoza
Department: Acting
Biography
Alberto Manuel Rodríguez-Gallego González de Mendoza was an Argentine film actor who appeared in 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades. A lifelong figure in Argentine films, De Mendoza appeared in film such as Adán y la serpiente in 1946 and A hierro muere in 1962 often working alongside Olga Zubarry. In the late 1960s and 1970 he appeared in a number of spaghetti Westerns. and also had a prominent role in the 1973 horror classic Horror Express, in which he co-starred alongside Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas. De Mendoza is better known to audiences in Argentina for his role in the popular TV series El Rafa, aired from 1980 to 1982, or the less successful El Oriental, aired from 1982 to 1983. He died in Madrid on 12 December 2011, at age 88.
Known For
Madre Alegría
1950
Special Killers
1973
What Changed Charley Farthing?
1976
And Then There Were None
1974
The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
1971
Horror Express
1972
Historia de una mala mujer
1948
Tapas
2006
The Adventures of Scaramouche
1963
Delusions of Grandeur
1971
The People Who Own the Dark
1976
Curse of the Black Cat
1977
De profesión, sus labores
1970
Forgotten Pistolero
1969
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
1971
To Love Ophelia
1974
La mujer desnuda
1955
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
1971
La cuna vacía
1949
Open Season
1974
The Dictator's Guns
1965
Buscando a Mónica
1962
Secuestro en la ciudad
1964
Las secretarias
1968
Seven Dangerous Women
1979
A Bullet for Sandoval
1969
You and I Are Three
1962
Las locas del conventillo
1966
Psychout for Murder
1969
The Blackmailers
1963
Nights Without Moons and Suns
1984
Queen of the Chantecler
1962
Gray neighborhood
1954
The Corsairs
1971
Awkward Hands
1970
The Midshipmen
1967
A Prewar Grandmother
1974
Bad Truth
2011
Zorrita Martínez
1975
The Boss
1958
An Almost Decent Girl
1963
Appointment in Beirut
1968
Hold Up
1974
Un nuevo amanecer
1942
Fulanita y sus menganos
1976
El erotismo y la informática
1976
La violación
1977
Bossa Nova
2000
...Y mañana serán hombres
1939
El asalto
1960
Lua de Outubro
2001
The Man from Marrakech
1966
Gaucho Soul
1930
Striptease
1976
Manaos
1979
La dulce enemiga
1957
Kill and Be Killed
1962
Venus de fuego
1978
La amante ingenua
1980
When My Husband Kisses
1950
The Underground Man
1981
¡Que seas feliz!
1956
Suburbio
1951
The House on Garibaldi Street
1979
Murió el sargento Laprida
1937
The Old Skinflint
1942
Su mejor alumno
1944
A Bullet for Rommel
1969
El hombre que supo amar
1976
La bestia humana
1957
Pasó en mi barrio
1951
El retrato
1947
Primero yo
1963
El infierno tan temido
1980
Ellos nos hicieron así
1953
The Desperate Ones
1967
Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando
1978
Socios para la aventura
1958
Cleopatra
2003
Filomena Marturano
1950
Human Cobras
1971
The Marihuana Story
1950
Adán y la serpiente
1946
One on Top of the Other
1969
Volver a vivir
1968
La calle del pecado
1954
Inspiración
1946
Las colocadas
1972
La noche de Venus
1955
Avisa a Curro Jiménez
1978
Un hombre solo no vale nada
1949
Miguitas en la cama
1949
Navy's girlfriend
1948
Se rematan ilusiones
1944
Lola Mora
1996
Los tigres de la memoria
1984
Don Juan Tenorio
1949
Shot in the Back
1964
The Marked Woman
1957
La adúltera
1956
Yo quiero vivir contigo
1960
Descent Into Hell
1954
Curro Jiménez
1976
Los camioneros
1973