Alberto de Mendoza

Alberto de Mendoza (21 January 1923 - 12 December 2011) was an Argentine film actor who appeared in some 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades.^[1]

A lifelong figure in Argentine films, 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.

Mendoza had a prominent role in the 1973 horror classic Horror Express, in which he co-starred alongside Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas.

Mendoza is better known to middle-age audiencies in Argentina by his role in the popular TV series El Rafa, aired from 1980 to 1982.

Mendoza died in Madrid on 12 December 2011, at age 88.^[2][3]

Selected filmography

• 1946 – Adán y la serpiente
• 1950 – The Marihuana Story
• 1951 – Pasó en mi barrio
• 1955 – La Mujer Desnuda
• 1958 – El Jefe directed by Fernando Ayala
• 1960 – El Asalto
• 1962 – A hierro muere
• 1964 – Primero yo
• 1965 - The Dictator's Guns
• 1969 - The Forgotten Pistolero
• 1971 – La Folie des grandeurs directed by Gérard Oury (as Charles II, King of Spain)
• 1972 – Horror Express (as Father Pujardov)
• 1978 – The Man Who Knew Love
• 1981 – The Underground Man (film)
• 2005 – Tapas (film)

TV series

• 1980-1982 – El Rafa
• 1982 - El Oriental

References

External links

• Alberto de Mendoza at the Internet Movie Database