Alberto de Mendoza

Acting

Alberto de Mendoza

Born — Died

1923-01-21 — 2011-12-12

Place of birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

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…

Known for

Curro Jiménez poster
7.3

Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez

Curro Jiménez

1976

And Then There Were None poster
5.7

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

And Then There Were None

1974

Delusions of Grandeur poster
7.4

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

Delusions of Grandeur

1971

Forgotten Pistolero poster
6.1

Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.

Forgotten Pistolero

1969

Horror Express poster
6.3

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

Horror Express

1972

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh poster
6.8

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

1971

Film credits

1970s · 23 titles

And Then There Were None poster
5.7

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

And Then There Were None

1974

Delusions of Grandeur poster
7.4

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

Delusions of Grandeur

1971

Horror Express poster
6.3

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

Horror Express

1972

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh poster
6.8

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

1971

Open Season poster
5.5

Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.

Open Season

1974

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail poster
6.3

After her husband dies in a freak plane accident, a woman leaves London for Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy. She soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money - and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, a private investigator arrives to investigate irregularities in the claim, teaming up with a beautiful reporter.

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail

1971

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin poster
6.5

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

1971

The People Who Own the Dark poster
4.9

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.

The People Who Own the Dark

1976

Seven Dangerous Women poster
4.0

Seven female friends decide to play an erotic game. They try to seduce as many aristocrats and middle-class men as possible.

Seven Dangerous Women

1979

Manaos poster
4.7

At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...

Manaos

1979

The House on Garibaldi Street poster
6.3

When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.

The House on Garibaldi Street

1979

Curse of the Black Cat poster
5.4

A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.

Curse of the Black Cat

1977

El hombre que supo amar poster
6.3

The life of Juan de Dios and his struggle against social, political and religious structures.

El hombre que supo amar

1976

Avisa a Curro Jiménez poster
5.8

Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.

Avisa a Curro Jiménez

1978

What Changed Charley Farthing? poster
8.0

Charley Farthing is on the run. Chased by an irate husband with murder on his mind, Charley finds himself hopping on a ship, chased by authorities on a politically turmoiled island and forced to skipper an old ship all the way to Ireland.

What Changed Charley Farthing?

1976

Venus de fuego poster
3.8

A young man falls madly in love with a woman they call La Venus de Fuego and because of her he becomes involved in a crime. They accuse him of murder and he is forced to flee to a place far away.

Venus de fuego

1978

De profesión, sus labores poster
3.0

While Ana and Juan are a happy couple, and satisfied with their eight years of married life, María José and Federico, their best friends, have not achieved the desired balance in their marriage. Ana and Juan's happiness makes their friends nervous. María José and Clara, Ana's "good" friends, will try by all means to make Ana believe that her husband is capable of cheating on her if the opportunity arises.

De profesión, sus labores

1970

To Love Ophelia poster
5.0

Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with his mother.

To Love Ophelia

1974

Hold Up poster
5.3

Robert is a police agent of American origins who lost his memory through an accident during a robbery in a branch of the Bank of America. A robber who survived the shooting is convinced the agent is faking his amnesia, just to then get rid of him and enjoy the loot, that cost the other delinquents their lives, together with his ex lover.

Hold Up

1974

Human Cobras poster
3.8

A former American gangster organises a safari in Kenya in order to have his business partner, whom he suspects of being responsible for his brother's death, killed. However, it turns out that he killed the wrong person and a series of murders follow.

Human Cobras

1971

Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando poster
10.0

A group of friends finds a dilapidated place and decide to repair it, paint it and live in it in communal plan. The problem is the bank, owner of the premises, does not want them occupied so they threaten to call the police to evict them.

Sentados al borde de la mañana con los pies colgando

1978

Special Killers poster
5.0

Sandro, a detective, finds his wife strangled. His girl-friend Tiffany, who works as photographer, makes a "Blow up" from a photo, what Sandro finds beside the victim. Sandro and Tiffany are looking for the woman on the photo, Laura. They finds her in a Night Club in Rome...

Special Killers

1973

A Prewar Grandmother poster
4.6

Doña Emilia lives quietly in a village in Lugo, when she receives the news that her son has suffered an accident. So she travels to Madrid without warning.

A Prewar Grandmother

1974

1960s · 12 titles

Forgotten Pistolero poster
6.1

Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.

Forgotten Pistolero

1969

Psychout for Murder poster
6.2

Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.

Psychout for Murder

1969

A Bullet for Sandoval poster
5.8

After his girlfriend dies in childbirth, Confederate deserter John Warner travels to Mexico, where the woman's father, Don Pedro Sandoval, grudgingly hands over his child. But with no locals willing to provide milk, the baby dies. Rounding up a group of rebels, Warner goes on a rampage through northern Mexico, with the ultimate goal of taking down Sandoval in this gritty Western.

A Bullet for Sandoval

1969

Queen of the Chantecler poster
5.9

A Spanish music hall performer gets caught up in espionage during the First World War.

Queen of the Chantecler

1962

The Adventures of Scaramouche poster
5.9

Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...

The Adventures of Scaramouche

1963

The Dictator's Guns poster
6.1

An experienced skipper is hired to buy a boat from an American heiress in the Caribbean, but when the boat vanishes and bodies surface, he realizes he’s been framed for arms trafficking.

The Dictator's Guns

1965

One on Top of the Other poster
6.4

A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.

One on Top of the Other

1969

A Bullet for Rommel poster
6.0

During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany.

A Bullet for Rommel

1969

The Desperate Ones poster
8.0

In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.

The Desperate Ones

1967

Las locas del conventillo poster
7.3

The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival of a Spanish woman to marry her. At the same time, the villain of Manuel also hopes for a Spanish nightclub. Women Arrivals weapon confusion.

Las locas del conventillo

1966

Appointment in Beirut poster
6.0

When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino police enlists the help of Jeff Miller, an alcoholic croupier, to nab the bad guys. Jeff is attracted to Laura, a singer at the casino, but she prefers the company of the leader of the thieving casino ring.

Appointment in Beirut

1968

Volver a vivir poster
9.0

A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love.

Volver a vivir

1968

1950s · 11 titles

The Boss poster
6.2

The head of a criminal gang has all the power among his men until one decides to testify against him.

The Boss

1958

Madre Alegría poster
10.0

The mother superior of a convent raises an abandoned girl and after twenty years the repentant biological mother returns.

Madre Alegría

1950

Pasó en mi barrio poster
10.0

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.

Pasó en mi barrio

1951

La noche de Venus poster
9.0

A woman will do everything to achieve fame, using her physique and her feminine cunning to achieve it.

La noche de Venus

1955

Descent Into Hell poster
8.0

For ambition a woman sacrifices her true love and marries a man of fortune.

Descent Into Hell

1954

Filomena Marturano poster
8.3

Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.

Filomena Marturano

1950

Suburbio poster
6.5

Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.

Suburbio

1951

The Marihuana Story poster
6.8

Pablo Urioste is a respected surgeon, but he is forced to experience a nightmarish world after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies at a nightclub. He tells his story to the police, and tells stories of how he is hooked, beaten, blackmailed, and includes some bad-trip flashbacks. Ms. Quiroga tries to help him, but there is little hope for Dr. Urioste after undergoing THE MARIHUANA STORY.

The Marihuana Story

1950

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8.0

The education received at home influences the future of some neighborhood boys of different economic status.

Ellos nos hicieron así

1953

Gray neighborhood poster
9.5

Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.

Gray neighborhood

1954

La calle del pecado poster
8.0

A student dreams that she is the heroine of one of her history teacher's lessons with whom she is in love.

La calle del pecado

1954

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