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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
Die X-Männer schlagen zurück
Character:Jo Louis Walker / Kommissar X
Release Date:05/10/2012
Il giorno della Shoah
Character:nazista
Release Date:27/01/2010
Voce del verbo amore
Character:Ettore
Release Date:27/04/2007
Alex the Ram
Character:Comandante
Release Date:21/07/2000
On the Dark Continent
Character:Ernesto
Release Date:01/01/1993
The Invisible Wall
Character:Colonnello Aeronautica
Release Date:13/09/1991
Thrilling Love
Character:Alberto Stuart
Release Date:23/02/1989
Death Stone
Character:Miguel Gomez
Release Date:02/07/1987
Attila Scourge of God
Character:Serpicio
Release Date:22/12/1982
Crime on the Highway
Character:Mr. Tarquini
Release Date:30/09/1982
Le Guignolo
Character:Fredo
Release Date:26/03/1980
Cop or Hood
Character:Inspector Rey
Release Date:28/03/1979
White Fang and the Kid
Character:Franky James
Release Date:15/12/1978
Corleone
Character:Salvatore Sperlazzo
Release Date:10/11/1978
Closed Circuit
Character:Roberto Vinci
Release Date:22/02/1978
Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
Character:Cliff Chandler
Release Date:23/12/1977
Oil
Character:Tony
Release Date:28/02/1977
Bruna, Shapely, Seeks Gifted
Character:Giovanni Pizzolla
Release Date:28/05/1975
La Missione del Mandrillo
Character:Pietro Rossini
Release Date:22/03/1975
Tales of Erotica
Character:Bitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle")
Release Date:16/11/1973
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Character:Victor
Release Date:31/10/1973
Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro
Character:D'Artagnan
Release Date:01/09/1973
The Off-Road Girl
Character:Carlo
Release Date:11/08/1973
The Loreley's Grasp
Character:Sigurd
Release Date:15/06/1973
Attack of the Blind Dead
Character:Jack Marlowe
Release Date:17/05/1973
The Night of the Last Day
Character:Beppe Banti
Release Date:01/01/1973
The Crucified Girls of San Ramon
Character:Jeff
Release Date:25/05/1972
Blood Story
Character:Abraham French
Release Date:09/05/1972
Siege of Terror
Character:Andrew
Release Date:03/04/1972
The Tiger Gang
Character:Kommissar X
Release Date:20/08/1971
Gunman of One Hundred Crosses
Character:Sartana / Django
Release Date:03/07/1971
In the Eye of the Hurricane
Character:Michel
Release Date:23/04/1971
Brother Outlaw
Character:Dakota Thompson
Release Date:19/02/1971
Fighters from Ave Maria
Character:John
Release Date:15/10/1970
Django Challenges Sartana
Character:Django
Release Date:03/04/1970
Love Birds
Character:Nino
Release Date:07/11/1969
Hate Is My God
Character:Il Nero/Carl
Release Date:23/05/1969
Island of Lost Girls
Character:Kommissar X
Release Date:18/04/1969
Machine Gun McCain
Character:Pete Zacari
Release Date:01/04/1969
Kill, Panther, Kill!
Character:Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X'
Release Date:30/03/1968
Kill Me Gently
Character:Kommissar X
Release Date:23/03/1967
The Three Fantastic Supermen
Character:Tony
Release Date:04/02/1967
The Criminals of the Metropolis
Character:sergente Perier
Release Date:01/01/1967
So Darling, So Deadly
Character:Kommissar X
Release Date:05/08/1966
Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
Character:Kommissar X
Release Date:17/05/1966
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Character:Kommissar X
Release Date:11/03/1966
Serenade for Two Spies
Character:Pepino
Release Date:18/08/1965
Black Eagle of Santa Fe
Character:Chief Black Eagle
Release Date:11/03/1965
L'uomo mascherato contro il corsaro nero
Character:Captain Ruiz
Release Date:01/08/1964
The Masked Man Against the Pirates
Character:Captain Ruiz
Release Date:12/07/1964
Hyena of London
Character:Henry
Release Date:23/06/1964
Brennus, Enemy of Rome
Character:Quinto Fabio
Release Date:23/12/1963
The Pirates of the Mississippi
Character:Schwarzer Adler
Release Date:17/10/1963
The Whip and the Body
Character:Cristiano Menliff
Release Date:29/08/1963
Female Three Times
Character:
Release Date:25/10/1957
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