Roger Cudney

Acting

Roger Cudney

Born — Died

1936-06-22 — 2021-07-05

Place of birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Cudney came to Mexico in the 1960s to play the lead in the musical Show Boat and ended up staying. He'd find steady work in both films and telenovelas, most often typecast as authoritarian characters and other "gringo" villains. He also appeared in the occasional Hollywood film. He died on July 5, 2021 of a heart attack following a car accident.

Known for

Rambo: First Blood Part II poster
6.7

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985

Total Recall poster
7.3

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

Total Recall

1990

Licence to Kill poster
6.4

After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.

Licence to Kill

1989

Acapulco H.E.A.T. poster
5.5

Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise.

Acapulco H.E.A.T.

1993

40 y 20 poster
8.1

A comedy series about a divorced dad who likes younger women, and his son who likes older women.

40 y 20

2016

La Chacala poster
6.5

Javier takes Delia, his pregnant wife, to his ranch in a remote village. Although she's surrounded with love and comfort, Delia has an uneasy feeling. One day, Javier goes out hunting and kills a deer, which to his horror turns out to be a man. Javier's servants toss the corpse over a canyon and tell him to forget the incident, but the dead man's ghost seeks out his mother, the local witch, and begs her to avenge his murder. The witch turns up at Javier´s ranch, and under a mysterious and unexpected shower of thunder and lightning, curses the family. Javier's wife shall bear twin daughters, one of which shall be a fearsome demoness. A day later, Delia goes into labor and gives birth to a healthy baby girl. Everybody feels calmer after the birth, yet a couple of hours later, Delia gets labor pains again. This time she's ripped apart by another baby girl. Delia bleeds to death, yet because the two girls look identical, both healthy and beautiful, it´s hard to know which one killed her mother. Several years later, the identical twins have very different personalities. Gilda is an independent doctor and a city dweller. Her twin Liliana is a frail invalid who resides in the ranch. However, one of them harbors inside the dreadful Chacala, which will soon materialize to wreak havoc among those around her.

La Chacala

1997

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

Outlaws - For Greater Glory poster
6.9

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

Outlaws - For Greater Glory

2012

Instructions Not Included poster
7.7

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

Instructions Not Included

2013

The Perfect Dictatorship poster
7.4

TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?

The Perfect Dictatorship

2014

The Fantastic World of Juan Orol poster
6.5

Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897–1988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz whose career spanned half a century and nearly 60 films. Abetted by an all-pro cast, del Amo’s brilliant interpretation of Orol’s life exudes a droll underdog charm, and almost every frame is an infectious homage to the golden age of cinema, the wiles of memory, and the art of fantasy.

The Fantastic World of Juan Orol

2012

Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo poster
7.5

Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life.

Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo

2018

Hysteria poster
5.3

A shy and feeble architect is victim of a violent and abusing surrounding. The pressure builds up until he is pushed to the limit of his own humanity.

Hysteria

2017

2000s · 11 titles

Species: The Awakening poster
4.7

A scientist, Dr. Hollander, takes his niece Miranda to Mexico in an attempt to reverse the effects of the alien DNA he used to create her. However the treatment goes horribly wrong, and sets Miranda on a killing spree as she sets out to find a mate.

Species: The Awakening

2007

Fast Food Nation poster
6.0

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

Fast Food Nation

2006

Julia poster
6.7

An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.

Julia

2008

Warden of Red Rock poster
5.9

In 1910, John Flinders is warden of Red Rock Territorial Prison, in Arizona. When a condemned man's last request brings Flinders into contact with the man's widow, Flinders finds himself falling in love. Meanwhile, a new convict, Mike Sullivan, turns out to be an old friend of Flinders'. They talk over old times, but it's clear that Sullivan has plans to leave the prison before his time is up. When those plans come to pass, Flinders sets out to re-take his old pal.

Warden of Red Rock

2001

King of Texas poster
5.2

In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his three daughters, is rejected by them.

King of Texas

2002

Propiedad Ajena poster
4.8

The discovery of a diary, written in 1848 in Texas, Mexican territory, triggers Miranda Sámano's decision to travel, illegally to that land, in search of her roots and her origin and to unravel the mysteries written by Amalia Sámano in that diary. The love affair that Miranda has with Matt in Texas seems to be the continuation of the one that Doña Amalia and the Houston army colonel Robert Crossman had almost 160 years ago; and it definitely resembles the relationship that Mexico and the United States have had throughout history and whose tragic outcome we can avoid if we do an exercise of our memory.

Propiedad Ajena

2007

In the Time of the Butterflies poster
6.3

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

In the Time of the Butterflies

2001

In the Time of the Butterflies poster
6.3

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

In the Time of the Butterflies

2001

The Pearl poster
4.8

A poor Mexican diver finds a priceless pearl that will change his impoverished family's future -- if he can fend off his own greed and the people trying to take advantage of him.

The Pearl

2001

Bajo tierra poster
NR

Two young men are preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States.

Bajo tierra

2009

The Wailer 2 poster
6.7

After Professor McBride learns that the body of his daughter Julie was never found, he takes it upon himself to go on a quest to discover the truth about his daughter's disappearance. With the help of Chava, a young Mexican anthropologist and a cult of old witch ladies, he embarks on a mission to exorcise the body of Julie from the evil soul of La Llorona.

The Wailer 2

2007

1990s · 13 titles

Total Recall poster
7.3

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

Total Recall

1990

The Arrival poster
6.0

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

The Arrival

1996

Dance with the Devil poster
6.5

She's sexy, shameless and loves taking people to their limit. She's a dangerous young woman who dreams about a jaguar that licks her naked body and sleeps by her side. Her past is bathed in blood and weird passions. Now she's met the man of her wildest dreams. He's dark, tough and mysterious. He likes robbing banks, trafficking in corpses and spicing it all with voodoo rituals. Together, the duo sets off toward Mexico destined to become the most feared outlaws in the continent.

Dance with the Devil

1997

Immortal Combat poster
5.6

Two police officers discover an island laboratory where a madwoman is turning martial artists into superkillers.

Immortal Combat

1994

The Cisco Kid poster
4.1

This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutionaries.

The Cisco Kid

1994

Little Saints poster
5.0

After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.

Little Saints

1999

The Burning Season poster
6.3

Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ranch land. The rich and the powerful will stop at nothing, and frequently resort to murder

The Burning Season

1994

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back poster
3.9

In a final and epic battle in the thrilling sequel to the now classic "Barbarian Queen", Althalia, leads a revolt of peasants and female warriors against the wicked ruler, Arkaris, to regain her throne.

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

1990

Demons of the Desert poster
4.9

A backwoods biker cult plotting world domination stay busy kidnapping, robbing and murdering people.

Demons of the Desert

1990

Infernal Death poster
4.0

A doll shop owner becomes a little too close for comfort with her teenage son after her husband dies. And then one day she receives a mysterious package with a big doll inside... a living, killer doll played by a dwarf in a doll costume.

Infernal Death

1992

By Our Own Correspondent poster
10.0

William Benton, a rich British landowner and cattle baron was murdered, creating one of the most bizarre and sensational international scandals in history. Thomas Canning, an inexperienced photo journalist from London, is sent to Mexico seeking fame and glory but eventually he reaches the camp of Pancho Villa to be told several conflicting versions of Benton's murder.

By Our Own Correspondent

1994

Una papa sin catsup poster
5.9

Gloria's grandmother is kidnapped by "La greñas", a gang leader, and is forced to impersonate her to save her grandmother's life.

Una papa sin catsup

1995

El Fiscal De Hierro 2: La Venganza De Ramona poster
6.2

Sequel to El Fiscal de Hierro. Ramona returns and is up for revenge against El Fiscal de Hierro

El Fiscal De Hierro 2: La Venganza De Ramona

1990

1980s · 18 titles

Rambo: First Blood Part II poster
6.7

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985

Licence to Kill poster
6.4

After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.

Licence to Kill

1989

The Evil That Men Do poster
5.8

A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.

The Evil That Men Do

1984

The Falcon and the Snowman poster
6.4

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

The Falcon and the Snowman

1985

Amityville II: The Possession poster
5.7

Anthony and Dolores Montelli, along with their four children, move into their dream house in Amityville and are immediately plagued by a string of paranormal experiences. When the abusive Anthony wrongly places the blame on the children, Dolores recruits a local Catholic priest to exorcise the house.

Amityville II: The Possession

1982

Cattle Annie and Little Britches poster
6.5

In nineteenth century Oklahoma, two teen girls, fans of stories about outlaws, are on a quest to meet and join up with them. They find a shadow of a former gang and although disappointed, still try to help them escape from a vigorous Marshal.

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

1981

Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames poster
4.2

American journalist John Reed travels to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution and interviews Francisco Villa. At the same time, we learn about his relationship with his lover Mabel Dodge, his participation in the Patterson strike, and his work as a reporter during World War I.

Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames

1982

Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell poster
3.6

Deathstalker’s back—and this time he’s facing off against Troxartes, an evil wizard with a zombie army and two magical jewels that hold the key to the lost city of Erendor. Teaming up with Princess Carissa, Deathstalker must protect the third gem, storm a heavily guarded fortress, and ride a bolt of lightning straight into battle.

Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell

1988

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse poster
5.6

Shunka Wakan, formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son defend their tribe against gold rushers.

Triumphs of a Man Called Horse

1983

Oceans of Fire poster
4.9

Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew keeps dying whilst diving and planting the rig in the sea he needs men who are willing to take the risk. He gets in touch with an old friend from the Navy who works in a prison as sort of an diving training base and there Ben selects out the best to complete the task, but with superiors breathing down his neck, a camera crew now jumping on board and a deadline to meet he wants to finish the job and make sure the men stay alive, but not all things work out as he plans.

Oceans of Fire

1986

Ghost Fever poster
2.8

Two policeman are sent on a routine assignment to serve an eviction notice. It becomes anything but run-of-the-mill when they become involved in the ghostly happenings.

Ghost Fever

1987

Computercide poster
7.0

The year is 1995 and Michael Stringer is the only private eye left on Earth. One day, he is assigned by a woman to investigate Eden Isle, a complex for people who want a perfect life started by an industrialist named Korter. Interestingly, Korter is found on a beach and is 20 years younger than he was before. When he gets into the complex, he is caught in a web of mystery.

Computercide

1982

Quell and Co. poster
5.0

A malevolent land mogul has threatened an honest group of Texas homesteaders, and when the innocent suffer justice must be served in director William Witney's action-packed, post-Civil War western. In a time when life was cheap and bullets were plentiful, Quell (Madison Mason) was a man to whom justice meant everything. A greedy land mogul whose mistreatment of the poor frontiersmen has raised the ire of Quell and his justice seeking band of followers, Kirk (Skip Homeler) thinks that he can bankroll respect and buy his way into power. That's not the way things work when in old Texas though, and when Kirk faces off against Quell and his crew, bullets are sure to fly.

Quell and Co.

1982

Con el odio en la piel poster
5.8

After group of racist cops from Texas kill his brother, a young Mexican man stands up to the corrupt bunch in this action-drama.

Con el odio en la piel

1988

No artwork available
6.7

A tragic account of the illegal traffic of human beings in the border. A spine-tingling adventure, intense drama of a group of undocumenteds in a race against death.

El Carro de la Muerte

1984

The Fearless Man poster
5.6

Young man avenges the murder of his family by representatives of a US oil company.

The Fearless Man

1980

The Border poster
5.4

Frank Cooper, a senior immigration police, remains a daily struggle against mafias operating between Mexico and the United States. Although it has a good standing with the poorest of Mexican towns near the border. Two are Leina and Benny, a couple of young boys who have decided to marry and have chosen Frank as best man. The problems are not slow to appear when Suarez, a mobster local forces Benny to work for him in their dirty business. Now, for Frank, the job becomes personal.

The Border

1980

No artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Murieron a la mitad del rio

1986

1970s · 11 titles

Slaughter poster
5.6

Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being blackmailed by the feds, is forced to head to South America to finish the mobsters off.

Slaughter

1972

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary poster
5.1

Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man in her life as well as a mysterious man in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary

1975

Mina, viento de libertad poster
6.8

Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in New Spain faced the absolutism of Fernando VII) was dissolved, but for eight months he directed a series of more or less brilliant military actions, in the face of the harassment of the Viceroy , Who finally got him arrested.

Mina, viento de libertad

1977

The Bees poster
4.7

Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.

The Bees

1978

Eye for an Eye poster
5.4

A vengeful widow hires a professional killer to train her son so that he can hunt down and kill the men who murdered her husband. The quest for revenge soon becomes an obsession.

Eye for an Eye

1971

Ni solteros, ni casados poster
5.9

Young couple's honeymoon is interrupted by an emergency at the groom's workplace. How long will it take them before they can make conjugal nookie?

Ni solteros, ni casados

1972

Cananea poster
6.1

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are exploited for their labour.

Cananea

1978

Roots of Blood poster
6.9

A deadly riot breaks out after unfair labor practices at a garment factory raises tensions between Mexican and Chicano workers.

Roots of Blood

1979

Nevada Smith poster
7.0

A Euro-Indigenous American gunslinger and a friend he hasn't seen in years join together to escort a shipment of explosives across Utah.

Nevada Smith

1975

Brothers of the Wind poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Brothers of the Wind

1977

357 Magnum poster
5.9

Two detectives infiltrate a smuggling gang to take revenge for the murder of their brother and his family.

357 Magnum

1979

Series credits

Acapulco H.E.A.T. poster
5.5

Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise.

Acapulco H.E.A.T.

1993

40 y 20 poster
8.1

A comedy series about a divorced dad who likes younger women, and his son who likes older women.

40 y 20

2016

La Chacala poster
6.5

Javier takes Delia, his pregnant wife, to his ranch in a remote village. Although she's surrounded with love and comfort, Delia has an uneasy feeling. One day, Javier goes out hunting and kills a deer, which to his horror turns out to be a man. Javier's servants toss the corpse over a canyon and tell him to forget the incident, but the dead man's ghost seeks out his mother, the local witch, and begs her to avenge his murder. The witch turns up at Javier´s ranch, and under a mysterious and unexpected shower of thunder and lightning, curses the family. Javier's wife shall bear twin daughters, one of which shall be a fearsome demoness. A day later, Delia goes into labor and gives birth to a healthy baby girl. Everybody feels calmer after the birth, yet a couple of hours later, Delia gets labor pains again. This time she's ripped apart by another baby girl. Delia bleeds to death, yet because the two girls look identical, both healthy and beautiful, it´s hard to know which one killed her mother. Several years later, the identical twins have very different personalities. Gilda is an independent doctor and a city dweller. Her twin Liliana is a frail invalid who resides in the ranch. However, one of them harbors inside the dreadful Chacala, which will soon materialize to wreak havoc among those around her.

La Chacala

1997

Rosa Salvaje poster
6.7

The drama tells the story of Rosa, who lives with her godmother in a very poor neighborhood; she is a simple girl who dresses like a boy. She was abandoned by her mother, Paulette. One day, Rosa goes to a mansion to steal apples and meets the owner of the house, Ricardo.

Rosa Salvaje

1987

El Encanto del Águila poster
7.8

A detailed dramatization of historical events during the time of the Revolution in Mexico. Using never-before-known historical documents, details about what happened during the period from 1910 to 1928 are revealed.

El Encanto del Águila

2011