Alberto de Mendoza
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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.
A lifelong figure in Argentine films, he began acting aged 7 in 1930 and has 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.
He had a prominent role in the 1973 horror classic Horror Express, in which he co-starred alongside Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas.
He died in Madrid on December 12th, 2011.
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Selected filmography
- 1946 – Adán y la serpiente
- 1950 – The Marihuana Story
- 1951 – Pasó en mi barrio
- 1955 – La Mujer Desnuda
- 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)
- 1973 – Horror Express (as Father Pujardov)
- 1978 – The Man Who Knew Love
- 1981 – The Underground Man (film)
- 2005 – Tapas (film)
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