Tony Kendall

Biography

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.

Known For

Kommissar X

Kommissar X - Jagd auf Unbekannt

Kommissar X

Kommissar X - In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen

Kommissar X

Kommissar X - Drei grüne Hunde

Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X'

Kommissar X - Drei blaue Panther

Kommissar X

Kommissar X - Drei goldene Schlangen

Kommissar X

Kommissar X jagt die roten Tiger

Kommissar X

Kommissar X - Drei gelbe Katzen

Captain Ruiz

L'uomo mascherato contro i pirati

Jack Marlowe

El ataque de los muertos sin ojos

Cristiano Menliff

La frusta e il corpo

Sigurd

Las garras de Lorelei

Pete Zacari

Gli intoccabili

Tony

I fantastici 3 Supermen

nazista

Il giorno della Shoah

Cliff Chandler

Yeti - Il gigante del 20° secolo

Roberto Vinci

Circuito chiuso

Henry

La jena di Londra

Michel

El ojo del huracán

Sartana / Django

Una pistola per cento croci!

Dakota Thompson

Rimase uno solo e fu la morte per tutti!

Franky James

Zanna Bianca e il grande Kid

Il Nero/Carl

L'odio è il mio Dio

Django

Django sfida Sartana

John

I vendicatori dell'Ave Maria

Miguel Gomez

Der Stein des Todes

Salvatore Sperlazzo

Corleone

Jo Louis Walker / Kommissar X

Die X-Männer schlagen zurück

Carlo

La ragazza fuoristrada

Nino

Komm, süßer Tod

Pepino

Serenade für zwei Spione

Victor

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

Serpicio

Attila flagello di Dio

Quinto Fabio

Brenno il nemico di Roma

Pietro Rossini

La Missione del Mandrillo

Abraham French

Storia di sangue

Biancaneve e i sette nani

Bitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle")

I giochi proibiti dell'Aretino Pietro

Giovanni Pizzolla

Bruna, formosa, cerca superdotato

Schwarzer Adler

Die Flußpiraten vom Mississippi

Chief Black Eagle

Die schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe

sergente Perier

I criminali della metropoli

Andrew

Cerco de terror

Jeff

Io monaca... per tre carogne e sette peccatrici

Ettore

Voce del verbo amore

Fredo

Le Guignolo

Colonnello Aeronautica

Il muro di gomma

Tony

Cuibul salamandrelor

Femmine tre volte

Alberto Stuart

Thrilling Love

Inspector Rey

Flic ou Voyou

Ernesto

Nel continente nero

Comandante

Alex L'Ariete

Beppe Banti

La notte dell’ultimo giorno

D'Artagnan

Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro

Mr. Tarquini

Delitto sull'autostrada

Captain Ruiz

L'uomo mascherato contro il corsaro nero

Kamikaze