Víctor Israel

Acting

Víctor Israel

Born — Died

1929-06-13 — 2009-09-19

Place of birth

Barcelona, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Víctor Israel, born Josep Maria Soler Vilanova, was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 200 feature films, shorts and tv-productions from 1961 to 2008. He made frequent appearances in rugged action films, excessive horror movies and gritty Italian spaghetti Westerns. Seldom did he have more than a few lines of dialogue and often he appeared in uncredited roles. Remembered as a veteran character actor.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 28 titles

Treasure Island poster
5.9

Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.

Treasure Island

1972

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

Compañeros poster
6.5

Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.

Compañeros

1970

Even Angels Eat Beans poster
6.4

Two mismatched buddies are mistaken for mob enforcers in Depression-era America.

Even Angels Eat Beans

1973

The Light at the Edge of the World poster
6.0

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

The Light at the Edge of the World

1971

Summertime Killer poster
5.8

During his childhood, a boy sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps the man's daughter and goes to a hideout. In the meantime, an ex-cop has been tracking them down.

Summertime Killer

1972

Ricco poster
6.0

Fresh out of the joint, young Ricco is eager to get home to see his family. He was cut loose a year early for good behavior, but it certainly wasn't good behavior that got him in the big house in the first place. Two years prior, Ricco took it upon himself to go after Don Avito, the man who killed his pappy and took his girlfriend. Yet Ricco came out of prison a changed man. He had a lot of time to think, and the anger and thirst for revenge is no longer there, much to his mother's chagrin. She is quite upset that her son is not interested in paying back Don Avito for his deeds, and she needles Ricco relentlessly until he reluctantly gives in to her demands.

Ricco

1973

Don't Turn the Other Cheek poster
5.6

A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.

Don't Turn the Other Cheek

1971

Night of the Howling Beast poster
5.0

Waldemar, the renowned adventurer, joins an expedition to find the Yeti in the Himalayas. While hiking the mountains, he's captured by two cannibalistic demon nymphets guarding a remote Buddhist temple and becomes their sex-slave. They transform him into a werewolf setting him loose to roam the mountain where he encounters a sadistic bandit.

Night of the Howling Beast

1975

Murders in the Rue Morgue poster
5.2

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971

His Name Was Holy Ghost poster
6.2

The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder. With his sidekick, the Holy Ghost rescues some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, then raids the castle again for gold treasure aided by some local prostitutes.

His Name Was Holy Ghost

1972

From Hong Kong with Love poster
5.1

Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots with scenes shot in Hong Kong. Mickey Rooney featured in the film as well as Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, stars of the James Bond films who appeared as M and Moneypenny respectively.

From Hong Kong with Love

1975

The Mysterious Island poster
5.6

1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.

The Mysterious Island

1973

Jaguar Lives! poster
4.2

The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.

Jaguar Lives!

1979

The White, The Yellow, and The Black poster
5.8

The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.

The White, The Yellow, and The Black

1975

Cuentos de las sábanas blancas poster
4.0

Medieval erotic comedy in which a young man, played by Manolo Otero, comes to a town where he pretends to be tooth-puller and physician. This man is able to invent any potion to quench the sexual thirst of locals.

Cuentos de las sábanas blancas

1977

Kill! poster
6.0

Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

Kill!

1971

High Crime poster
6.4

An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.

High Crime

1973

Sonny and Jed poster
5.8

As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When beautiful Sonny decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.

Sonny and Jed

1972

Sentence of God poster
5.5

A bounty hunter named Minnesota is only interested in big bounties. El Santo is wanted, but has a much smaller price on his head. He’s on a mission to find the killer of his father. The two men have this in common: They’re both looking for an bandit leader named Corbancho.

Sentence of God

1972

Seduction Squad poster
3.5

After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot.

Seduction Squad

1972

A Man Called Autumn Flower poster
5.5

During the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, young, wealthy Lluis de Serracant leads a double life: by day he's a lawyer, and by night he's a transvestite performer known to his fans as "Flower of Autumn".

A Man Called Autumn Flower

1978

Los hijos de Scaramouche poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los hijos de Scaramouche

1975

Obscene Desire poster
5.4

A young American woman moves to a large countryside villa with her newlywed Italian husband. Soon enough, strange and seemingly supernatural events begin to befall the property, as a black-gloved killer simultaneously picks up and murders prostitutes.

Obscene Desire

1978

Exorcism's Daughter poster
4.3

Tania, an asylum patient, is under the doctor's care while suffering raging behavioral effects that follow the death of her exorcised mother.

Exorcism's Daughter

1971

Crimson, the Color of Blood poster
4.2

A mad doctor performs a head transplant on an injured criminal, which results in him being even more dangerous and murderous than before.

Crimson, the Color of Blood

1973

Five Forks poster
5.6

Aurelio and Maruja are a couple who has a fancy restaurant. Both have to take care of his godson Miguel as his father, the cook of the restaurant, flees from justice after having killed his wife because she was unfaithful. Miguel, a handsome young man, tricks Maruja and leaves her pregnant.

Five Forks

1979

Necrophagous poster
5.7

A young nobleman returns to his crumbling family castle, only to learn that his wife has died giving birth to their stillborn child. But why is her coffin empty? What follows is a uniquely told shocker of grief, lust, dark secrets and the hungers of the grave.

Necrophagous

1971

1960s · 24 titles

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly poster
8.5

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966

Doctor Zhivago poster
7.6

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Doctor Zhivago

1965

Yankee poster
5.6

A man known only as 'Yankee' rides into a dying, desolate frontier New Mexico town completely controlled by 'The Grand Cougar', setting off a chain of events where dominance is the prize.

Yankee

1966

Seven Guns for the MacGregors poster
5.4

Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.

Seven Guns for the MacGregors

1966

Up the MacGregors poster
4.8

Seven brothers team up to rescue their gold and their women from a ruthless bandit.

Up the MacGregors

1967

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof poster
5.9

The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered.

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof

1968

The House That Screamed poster
6.5

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

The House That Screamed

1969

The Texican poster
5.4

Wanted north of the border, Jess Carlin resides safely in Mexico. Then he hears his brother was killed in a gunfight with another man. Knowning his brother never carried a gun he heads north to find his brother's killer. After battling bounty hunters he arrives in Rimrock, a town controlled by Luke Starr. Starr is the man he wants but he unable to find any evidence until he is given an item found by his brother's body.

The Texican

1966

Alive or Preferably Dead poster
6.5

Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.

Alive or Preferably Dead

1969

Dynamite Jim poster
5.0

During the Civil War, a Union officer tries to move a gold shipment out of Mexico despite the threat of raiders.

Dynamite Jim

1966

The Sea Pirate poster
6.1

A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.

The Sea Pirate

1966

White Comanche poster
4.7

William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.

White Comanche

1968

Bandidos poster
6.8

Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.

Bandidos

1967

Sugar Colt poster
6.2

In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town

Sugar Colt

1967

Texas Jim poster
7.7

A band of fierce rustlers is ravaging the region of Las Cruces. Appears an outsider who saves the ranch owner "The Spur" of being kidnapped by members of the band. Thankfully, he was appointed foreman, and his daughter is in love with him. But things are not what they seem and there are murky intrigues in the background.

Texas Jim

1965

Operation Double Cross poster
5.0

In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist.

Operation Double Cross

1965

The Thief of Tibadabo poster
9.0

In this lighthearted crime comedy, Nicolas is a Barcelona ice cream vendor who inadvertently helps a friend who has just committed a robbery. He is chased by several shady underworld characters trying to get their hands on the stolen loot.

The Thief of Tibadabo

1965

The Big Hit of Surcouf poster
6.0

The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.

The Big Hit of Surcouf

1966

One Dollar Too Many poster
7.0

Suave gambler Clay Watson, cocky sharpshooter Moses Lang, and wily thespian Edwin Kean are a trio of criminals in the Old West. The motley threesome are forced to form an uneasy alliance in order to find $400,000 dollars in stolen money.

One Dollar Too Many

1968

Totò d'Arabia poster
6.3

Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent 00Ø8 to convince the ruler of Shamara, Sheikh Ali El Buzur, to yield oil to UK.

Totò d'Arabia

1965

La boda era a las doce poster
6.5

Elisa, a seller of a fashion house, sends a model to the wrong address. For fear of being fired she decides to recover it on her own. She encounters Alberto, a guy whose wedding is at noon, going to the same place it. From the moment they meet, they begin to suffer all kinds of mishaps.

La boda era a las doce

1964

The Salary of Crime poster
6.3

Mario, the son of a police captain killed in the line of duty, is completely surrendered to the police organization. Instructing some errands meet Elsa, original and fascinating beauty, beginning an illicit affair and exciting. This makes his firmest principles are shaken, transformed his life completely absurd entering a maelstrom revolving around the existence of Elsa surface.

The Salary of Crime

1964

A Place Called Glory poster
6.1

Two celebrated gunfighters are separately hired to come to a small Canadian town in Manitoba named "Glory" for a showdown at high noon. But before they can do that, they join forces and take on a bandit gang that dominates the area.

A Place Called Glory

1965

Killer Adios poster
5.2

Jess Vrain returns to town at the request of a former friend to find that everything has changed. Not only has his ex-girlfriend become a refined lady but someone is killing people with the only clue being a rare Winchester rifle.

Killer Adios

1968

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