
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
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Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro
1973 · Movie
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The Masked Man Against the Pirates
1964 · Movie
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Die X-Männer schlagen zurück
2012 · Movie
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Female Three Times
1957 · Movie
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Corleone
1978 · Movie
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The Off-Road Girl
1973 · Movie
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Fighters from Ave Maria
1970 · Movie
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Hate Is My God
1969 · Movie
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The Invisible Wall
1991 · Movie
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The Night of the Last Day
1973 · Movie
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The Pirates of the Mississippi
1963 · Movie
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Closed Circuit
1978 · Movie
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Kill, Panther, Kill!
1968 · Movie
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The Tiger Gang
1971 · Movie
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So Darling, So Deadly
1966 · Movie
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Kill Me Gently
1967 · Movie
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Siege of Terror
1972 · Movie
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Island of Lost Girls
1969 · Movie
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Love Birds
1969 · Movie
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White Fang and the Kid
1978 · Movie
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Cop or Hood
1979 · Movie
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Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
1966 · Movie
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The Whip and the Body
1963 · Movie
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In the Eye of the Hurricane
1971 · Movie
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Serenade for Two Spies
1965 · Movie
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Black Eagle of Santa Fe
1965 · Movie
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Le Guignolo
1980 · Movie
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Crime on the Highway
1982 · Movie
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Attila Scourge of God
1982 · Movie
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Machine Gun McCain
1969 · Movie
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On the Dark Continent
1993 · Movie
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Attack of the Blind Dead
1973 · Movie
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Oil
1977 · Movie
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Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
1966 · Movie
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La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
1973 · Movie
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Hyena of London
1964 · Movie
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The Three Fantastic Supermen
1967 · Movie
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Death Stone
1987 · Movie
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The Loreley's Grasp
1973 · Movie
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Voce del verbo amore
2007 · Movie
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Brennus, Enemy of Rome
1963 · Movie
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Django Challenges Sartana
1970 · Movie
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Tales of Erotica
1973 · Movie
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Blood Story
1972 · Movie
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Gunman of One Hundred Crosses
1971 · Movie
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The Crucified Girls of San Ramon
1972 · Movie
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Brother Outlaw
1971 · Movie
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The Criminals of the Metropolis
1967 · Movie