Tony Kendall
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-08-22
Day of Death
2009-11-28 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Tony Kendall
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.
Known For
Acting
(2012)
Die X-Männer schlagen zurück
as Jo Louis Walker / Kommissar X
(2010)
Il giorno della Shoah
as nazista
(2007)
Voce del verbo amore
as Ettore
(2000)
Alex the Ram
as Comandante
(1992)
On the Dark Continent
as Ernesto
(1991)
The Invisible Wall
as Colonnello Aeronautica
(1989)
Thrilling Love
as Alberto Stuart
(1987)
Death Stone
as Miguel Gomez
(1982)
Crime on the Highway
as Mr. Tarquini
(1982)
Attila Scourge of God
as Serpicio
(1980)
Le Guignolo
as Fredo
(1979)
Cop or Hood
as Inspector Rey
(1978)
Corleone
as Salvatore Sperlazzo
(1978)
Closed Circuit
as Roberto Vinci
(1978)
White Fang and the Kid
as Franky James
(1977)
Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
as Cliff Chandler
(1977)
Oil
as Tony
(1975)
Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted
as Giovanni Pizzolla
(1975)
La Missione del Mandrillo
as Pietro Rossini
(1973)
Attack of the Blind Dead
as Jack Marlowe
(1973)
Tales of Erotica
as Bitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle")
(1973)
The Loreley's Grasp
as Sigurd
(1973)
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
as Victor
(1973)
(1973)
La ragazza fuoristrada
as Carlo
(1973)
The Night of the Last Day
as Beppe Banti
(1972)
The Big Bust-Out
as Jeff
(1972)
Blood Story
as Abraham French
(1972)
Siege of Terror
as Andrew
(1971)
In the Eye of the Hurricane
as Michel
(1971)
Brother Outlaw
as Dakota Thompson
(1971)
Gunman of One Hundred Crosses
as Sartana / Django
(1971)
The Tiger Gang
as Kommissar X
(1970)
Django Challenges Sartana
as Django
(1970)
Fighters from Ave Maria
as John
(1969)
Machine Gun McCain
as Pete Zacari
(1969)
Love Birds
as Nino
(1969)
Hate Is My God
as Il Nero/Carl
(1969)
Island of Lost Girls
as Kommissar X
(1968)
Kill, Panther, Kill!
as Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X'
(1967)
The Three Fantastic Supermen
as Tony
(1967)
The Criminals of the Metropolis
as sergente Perier
(1967)
Kill Me Gently
as Kommissar X
(1966)
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
as Kommissar X
(1966)
Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
as Kommissar X
(1966)
So Darling, So Deadly
as Kommissar X
(1965)
Black Eagle of Santa Fe
as Chief Black Eagle
(1965)
Serenade for Two Spies
as Pepino
(1964)
The Masked Man Against the Pirates
as Captain Ruiz
(1964)
Hyena of London
as Henry
(1963)
The Whip and the Body
as Cristiano Menliff
(1963)
The Pirates of the Mississippi
as Schwarzer Adler
(1963)
Brennus, Enemy of Rome
as Quinto Fabio
(1957)