
Acting
Carlos Díaz de Mendoza
Born — Died
1898-09-04 — 1960-05-18
Place of birth
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
45 titles
Known for
6.0During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
The Pride and the Passion
1957
6.2No synopsis available yet.
El hombre que perdió el tren
1960
Spanish film with a score by Joaquín Rodrigo
El hereje
1958
5.0Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
Decameron Nights
1953
9.5In the Madrid beginning of the 20th century two young people try to make it as artists: Elena intends to succeed in the music world and Pablo wants to become a famous painter.
De Madrid al cielo
1952
6.3Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...
The Eyes Leave a Trace
1952
Film credits
1960s · 2 titles
1950s · 36 titles
6.0During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
The Pride and the Passion
1957
Spanish film with a score by Joaquín Rodrigo
El hereje
1958
5.0Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
Decameron Nights
1953
9.5In the Madrid beginning of the 20th century two young people try to make it as artists: Elena intends to succeed in the music world and Pablo wants to become a famous painter.
De Madrid al cielo
1952
6.3Martin, a frustrated lawyer who sells perfumes, is reunited with Robert, an old, bright fellow student, and falls in love with his wife. One night Robert enlists the help of Martin, because he believes he has killed a man who was about her lover. Martin sees an opportunity ...
The Eyes Leave a Trace
1952
9.0No synopsis available yet.
El duende y el rey
1950
9.0No synopsis available yet.
La canción de La Malibrán
1951
7.3Peter Ward is a black singer who arrives to Madrid in 1907. He falls in love with Emma, and he offers her to be her dancer. She is restrained by her racial prejudices which will lead to an inevitable separation between them.
The Black Man Who Had a White Soul
1951
3.3Madrid in the 1870s. Amidst political intrigues against King Amadeo de Saboya, wealthy and strong-willed countess Curra de Albornoz makes her own way in spite of her son and husband, considering her indiscretions as merely trifles ("pequeñeces") until tragedy strikes her. Period drama with a luxurious production design.
Pequeñeces
1950
6.2Bandits kidnap Figaro, the famous barber of Seville, and use his wonderful voice to attract travelers and rob stagecoaches. Because of this, the police chases him as an accomplice of the bandits. Then Figaro decides to join the army as a volunteer to fight in Puerto Rico. He returns covered with glory and his faults are condoned. However, the adventures of Figaro continue in Seville in the false scene of the aristocracy
The Adventurer of Seville
1954
9.0An outsider seduces and deceives a small-town girl, taking advantage of her innocence, in order to kill her mother.
Noche de tormenta
1955
5.6Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
Asylum
1954
5.8Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.
Dawn of America
1951
10.0A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters the final round. Being among the finalists he meets at the radio station a famous singer and falls in love with her.
Love on Wheels
1954
6.0Serving the customers of a department store, the salesgirls in their blue uniform go out of their way to serve them. But in their young minds, one idea surpasses all: the hunt for a husband. Ana is in love with Juan, who seems to be very well in his condition of single. Olga has aspirations of the highest level, as her boyfriend must own a great car. Pilar aims to win a radio contest. And there is also Álvaro, the lawyer whose only cause capable of defending, and even with a resounding failure, is the freedom of the bachelor.
Las muchachas de azul
1957
5.8In 1918, a young woman is taken to a coastal resort by her parents to find her a suitable husband.
Boyfriend in Sight
1954
6.6In the late nineteenth century, Miguel Velasco, the son of a wealthy Spanish immigrant established in Mexico, comes to Madrid, where he falls in love with Celia, a chorus girl working at the Apollo theater.
Teatro Apolo
1950
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Vargas Inn
1959
9.0Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.
The Seventh Page
1951
6.5Finished their careers of Law and Medicine, respectively, Antonio Redondo and Josefina Castro, a pair of young Spanish newlyweds, are looking for work to buy an apartment and start a life together, but they will face enormous difficulties throughout the process.
Life Ahead
1958
A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever.
Thunderstorm
1956
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Maldición gitana
1953
7.7Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him dead. Under the fear that the crime is attributed to her and also because she will soon marry Ramon, a rich young man of good family, she says nothing and goes to work as usual to show models. Meanwhile, the police opens an investigation.
Haute Couture
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A dos grados del Ecuador
1953
5.6Josephine and Antonio have reached a delicate economic balance after marriage. The salary of lawyer from him, and wins her in the hospital, allows them to survive and fantasize about some freak. The situation is complicated by the news that Josephine is pregnant. Ahead of the debacle that may involve having a "child who eats everything, including food," Josephine teaches the baby still in her womb, higher education courses in order to save some money in schools. Meanwhile, Antonio enters the underworld scene, looking for customers who offer their services as a lawyer.
La vida alrededor
1959
6.2Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres.
Under the Sky of Spain
1953
7.0Try the descent to Earth, specifically to Spain, of the Three Wise Men.
Messengers of Peace
1957
8.0Mario is a famous concert pianist affected by an obsessive neurosis. He leaves Paris, cancels his contracts and returns to Spain to devote himself only to music. On his way to Spain he meets a young widow, who Mario saves when she tries to commit suicide by throwing herself from a train.
El tren expreso
1955
6.6Four young men are cited in a kiosk during a rainy afternoon. One has to study and the other three go to the cinema, although they are not allowed to entry because their young age. The group consists of Andrés, who works as bellboy in a hotel and dreams of becoming a bullfighter; Chispa, who follows the orders of an old grumpy man; Carlos, a student; and Negro, a shy boy. All they want is to have fun; but reality forces them to confront the problems of the adult world.
Los chicos
1959
8.0Carlos, veterinary, poet, musician in his spare time and a fun-minded Don Juan,pretends to be his friend Fernando who has inherited a pharmacy in Madrid. There he meets an old girl friend that attracts him.
Feather in the Wind
1952
9.0Several different people meet in Tangier, where they will have to join efforts to survive.
Sin uniforme
1950
7.0No synopsis available yet.
El milagro del sacristán
1954
No synopsis available yet.
Noche de celos
1951
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Quema el suelo
1951
6.3Emigre returns to Spain to visit family; reunites with long-lost illegitimate son and rescues his brother-in-law from a gold-digging gigolette.
Educando a papá
1955
No synopsis available yet.
The Savior
1959
1940s · 2 titles
7.2A historical drama based on St. Ignatius of Loyola as a Warrior, as a Founder of the Jesuit Order and as a Saint .
Loyola, the Soldier Saint
1949
10.0In 1922, Infantry Captain Fernando Salas, arriving from Madrid, joins, without much enthusiasm, a battalion ruled by Commander Almendro, a tough veteran of the African war who soon notices a clear lack of military vocation in the new recruit.
Alhucemas
1948
1930s · 5 titles
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Bound for Cairo
1935
7.1This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
There Were Thirteen
1931
A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart. Spanish language version of the 1930 Nancy Carroll vehicle "The Devil's Holiday".
La fiesta del diablo
1931
7.0After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, finally has enough time and money to begin a search for him. Spanish language version of the 1930 film "Sarah and Son".
A Whole Life
1930
7.0Leslie Bennett's extramarital affair with George Nelson spirals out of control when Hammond abandons Leslie for the alluring native woman Li Ti. Foreign language version of the 1929 Jeanne Eagels film “The Letter.”
The Letter
1931

