Tony Kendall
Рождение : 1936-08-22, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Смерть : 2009-11-28
История
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.
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Jo Louis Walker / Kommissar X
Documentary about the Kommissar X Series.
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Ettore
Ugo and Francesca have been married for ten years, but mutually decide to break up in a graceful way. They start singles' life again, having to deal with their children, their jobs and social relationships alone. They even both start seeing someone else, until jealousy arises. Perhaps their love is not over yet...
Comandante
Alessandro Corso is a special forces carabiniere. During an operation he saves a child but cause the death of one of his comrades. He's then transferred to a peaceful little town, where he will be unexpectedly forced to help an hot witness named Antavleva, protecting her and bringing them safely to the trial.
Ernesto
In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local cultures by well-meaning but essentially clueless (and frequently arrogant) representatives of the U.S. Since then, the phenomenon of cultural damage cause by arrogant tourists and visitors has been demonstrated to be something everyone is capable of. In this thoughtful, comic drama, the subject is Italians overseas. In this film, Malindi Kenya is the playground of rich Italians.
Colonnello Aeronautica
June 27, 1980, an Italian DC 9 flying from Bologna to Palermo falls in the sea close to the Ustica island. 81 people die. The official version is "structure failure" of the airplane, but a number of clues lead the journalist Rocco Ferrante toward a different truth. Thanks to his perseverance against the invisible wall erected by air force officers, politicians, judges, secret agents, we come to know that, with all probability, the DC 9 has been mistakenly shot by a missile during a sort of air fight among U.S., French and Libyan top guns.
Alberto Stuart
A man, sexually maimed by his former wife, lives vicariously through her affairs.
Miguel Gomez
Kumar Cunningham loses his fiancee in Sri Lanka during a festival, only to discover her dead from a drugs overdose. Mad with grief, he kills the two dealers and is arrested for murder. He manages to escape and is bent on revenge.
Serpicio
В сельской местности Сеграте живёт племя варваров во главе с королем Ардарико. Пока мужчины охотятся, деревня разграблена римлянами, которые крадут еду, женщин и скот варваров. Когда Ардарико узнаёт об этом инциденте, он отправляется с дюжиной несчастных людей в Рим, к самопровозглашённому, страшному варварскому королю пророчества Аттилу, чтобы вернуть украденное вещи.
Tarquini
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi is once again transformed, now as a trucker in a criminal gang.
Fredo
Специализация симпатичного афериста Александра Дюпре — богатые вдовушки, из которых он изящно выколачивает деньги, каждый раз выдавая себя за разных персонажей. Все шло гладко до того дня, когда он оказался втянутым… в дело о международном промышленном шпионаже, затрагивающем стратегические интересы Франции.
Inspector Rey
В курортном городке на юге Франции убивают инспектора полиции. Для соблюдения благопристойного вида, гибель представляют от лица преступников, хотя полиция городка насквозь пронизана коррупцией и зависимостью от мафии. В это время в город приезжает странный тип, который представляется Антонио Черутти, братом проститутки, убитой вместе с инспектором, и стравливает между собой крупнейших мафиози города. Вот только кем же он на самом деле является?
Franky James
The town drunk of Gallatin, Missouri is former outlaw Franky James, brother of Jesse James. He is reformed by a woman, a young boy and a dog. He helps rid the town of corrupt town boss Mr. Morgan.
Salvatore Sperlazzo
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Roberto Vinci
В кинотеатре идет вестерн. Среди зрителей люди самого разного плана: бизнесмены и пенсионеры, любовники, выбравшие кинозал для места своей встречи и женщина со своей материю, семьи с детьми, одинокие холостяки, студенты, ученые. По экрану перемещаются ковбои, дерутся, мстят за что-то, стреляют друг в друга. В момент кульминации действия на экране раздается выстрел, ковбой стреляет, и — в этот момент один из зрителей оказывается убитым на месте. Приезжает полиция, начинает допрашивать зрителей, многие зрители что-то скрывают и тем самым навлекают на себя подозрение. Чтобы понять то, что же на самом деле произошло во время проклятого сеанса, всех зрителей снова рассаживают по своим местам, прося их повторять все свои действия, которые они совершали во время просмотра фильма. В роковое кресло, на котором сидел убитый, садится доброволец. Кино запускают заново…
Cliff Chandler
Professor Wassermann is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block on Newfoundland's coast. The professor does not know that Hunnicut intends to use the prehistoric creature as a trademark of its multinational industrial group. A very big mistake.
Tony
В мире, использующем топливо и машины, месторождения нефти представляют собой богатство и благосостояние.
В арабской нефтяной провинции загораются несколько скважин. Непосредственно катастрофа продолжается серией международных спекуляций. Президент «Oil Conglomerate» отправляет Джона Картера (Стюарт Уитман), чтобы на месте разобраться в случившемся. Интриги, саботаж – все средства хороши в борьбе за власть международных нефтяных картелей. Однако, не так уж много надо, чтобы превратить маленький огонь в огонь за миллиард долларов. Пожар выходит из под контроля, угрожая уничтожить Ближний Восток…
Giovanni Pizzolla
Sex comedy.
Pietro Rossini
Pietro Rossini is a strapping young man that unfortunately spends most of his time at work chasing after two pretty young secretaries who are only too happy to return his advances. Tired of this endless chase and work waste, his boss sends him on an errand to Paris hoping this will help productivity around the office. Pietro quickly hits up his friend for a woman he can fool around with while he's in Paris, but Rita, the woman he meets, ends up being an large, boorish, unsightly woman. Once he arrives at his hotel, Pietro meets the young and lovely Nancy and attempts to romance her as best he can, but no matter where he goes, Rita is not far behind.
Bitto Ranieri (segment "The Trick") / Fra' Luce (segment "The Miracle")
Four women of Gubbio – Angelica, Violetta, Lisa and Bettina – are conducted before the court by their lovers and husbands.
D'Artagnan
Yet another adventure of the famous musketeers engaged as usual to help the needy. Cardinal Richelieu is always hindering their task.
Carlo
An Italian photojournalist falls madly in love with a young black women he meets while on assignment in Egypt. She goes with him when he returns to Italy and the two soon get married. But the small town he is from is not quite so friendly nor open-minded to his new bride, and racism and petty jealousy threaten to break up their once idyllic happiness.
Sigurd
The legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for human blood. When one girl after another of a nearby boarding school is killed by her, a hunter named Sigurd is engaged to kill the monster.
Jack Marlowe
Рыцари ордена тамплиеров были богохульными людьми. Они хватали молоденьких девушек, убивали их, а потом пили кровь, вытекающую из жертв. Жители городка Бренцано, вооружились огнём и мечом, схватили извергов и предали их лютой казни за совершённые преступления. Перед гибелью один из тамплиеров сказал горожанам, что их невозможно убить, и что они вернутся из могилы, чтобы отомстить. Прошло ровно 500 лет, и Бренцано готовится к празднествам по случаю круглого юбилея казни рыцарей-тамплиеров. Только жители приступили распивать дорогие вина и сжигать чучела тамплиеров, как земля на кладбище задрожала, и из могил повылезали мёртвые рыцари. Они уселись на верных трухлявых коней и поскакали в сторону города, где их практически никто и не ждал. Кровь прольётся, и стоны вместе с криками о помощи пронесутся над этим древним градом.
Jeff
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
Abraham French
A prohibition-themed gangster thriller, set in the 1930s in the United States. Following a failed heist, Sam's gang takes refuge in a small isolated town where another gang has already settled, together with a mysterious priest. The two bands decide to unite, but the wife of one of the gang bosses is attracted to a member of the other gang. They plan to escape and start a new life together. But who will survive the police assault on the town?
Andrew
Finding himself unwittingly involved in a love triangle with his unfaithful wife and her lover sends a man over the edge.
Kommissar X
Captain Tom Rowland and Commissioner X are sent to Pakistan to destroy the Red Tigers gang, responsible for smuggling drugs from Afghanistan into the United States.
Sartana / Django
A grim, merciless gunfighter known as Santana protects a young woman from the murderers of her family members and at the same time pursues a revenge against a traitor responsible for the death of his fellow soldiers years before.
Michel
В жизни Рут одновременно присутствуют двое мужчин. Мишель – скромный, любящий, но наскучивший супруг, с которым она планирует в ближайшее время развестись. Поль – импульсивный, уверенный в себе мачо, в лице которого женщина видит идеального спутника для дальнейшей жизни. Судьба сводит их вместе на загородной вилле Рут. Она чувствует неловкость, Мишель «всё понимает», но робко просит не спешить с разводом, Поль великодушно терпит поверженного соперника.
Мелодраматический треугольник встряхивают два инцидента, один за одним произошедших с Рут. Сначала на горном серпантине у неё отказали тормоза, затем под водой неожиданно закончился кислород в, казалось бы, полном баллоне акваланга. Женщина уцелела в обоих случаях, но в её сердце поселился страх. Кто-то хочет убить её или, того хуже, ненаглядного Поля. Она начинает подозревать Мишеля, но правда оказывается куда как страшнее.
Dakota Thompson
A man is falsely charged with bank robbery, prompting his brother to break him out of prison. Together the pair set out to find the real culprits, and their search leads them to a gang of outlaws headed by a notorious gunfighter.
John
This peculiar spaghetti western from director Adalberto Albertini (Return of Shanghai Joe) stars Tony Kendall (Luciano Stella) as the leader of a group of traveling circus acrobats. The performers enlist the aid of revolutionary exile Serrano and his men in order to rid a frontier town of its cruel boss.
Django
Django comes to town to discover that his brother Steve, accused of robbing a bank, has been lynched. Django believes the real culprit is Sartana and challenges him to a duel. Just in time he discovers that the author of the crime is an important local figure and Django and Sartana join forces to punish him.
Nino
Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered.
Il Nero/Carl
A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are now notable men of the town.
Kommissar X
Female American tourists are being kidnapped by a crime ring headed by a beautiful Asian woman. They're drugged and then sent to an island where they are kept as sex slaves to be used by wealthy tourists. Two agents are dispatched to rescue the women and put an end to this operation.
Pete Zacari
Когда назначенный мафией управлять Западным побережьем Чарли Адамо попытался запустить свою руку в одно из самых больших казино Лас-Вегаса «Royal», он и подумать не мог, что оно принадлежит его боссам, сидящим в Нью-Йорке...
Jo Louis Walker / 'Kommissar X'
In the opening moments of Kill, Panther, Kill! we see the daring escape, during a prison transfer, of master criminal Arthur Tracy. Tracy has been in stir for four years after thieving a fortune in jewels worth three million dollars. Now his loyal henchmen, Anthony and Smokey, lie in wait beside a desolate hillside road that’s apparently intended to be overlooking Malibu — but is actually some anonymous European location — as the LAPD van baring Arthur approaches. After dispensing with Arthur’s guards in a hail of machinegun fire, the three pile into a getaway car, at which point Anthony says he knows of an ideal place for them to hold up. “They’re holding a rodeo this week in Calgary”, he says. “Nobody will look for us there.” And truer words were never spoken. The only thing that I’d be looking for at a rodeo in Calgary would be a thorough ass-kicking.
Kommissar X
One of Tony and Brad's best with the boys on the hunt for a treasure of missing LSD that has been stolen by a criminal organization. Their quest eventually leads the boys to far-off desert oil ruins where much of the film's best action occurs.
Tony
FBI agent Brad joins Tony and Nick, the self styled Supermen who battle crime wearing bullet-proof super-suits. They are on a case involving radioactive counterfeit money and people who can be broken down into precious jewels.
A group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve.
Kommissar X
A scientist invents a filter that can increase the power of a laser beam, turning it into a death ray! A dangerous crime organization wants the device and will stop at nothing to get it, while murder and violence follow Joe and Tom to Singapore as they try to foil the evil plans.
Kommissar X
Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Lots of jungle thrills, martial arts, ancient temples, huge explosions, & even sci-fi elements. Watch for Harris' great karate fight inside a crumbling temple, surrounded by masked members of an ancient sect.
Kommissar X
Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.
Pepino
An international gang of gun dealers in the USA has stolen the prototype of a laser rifle from a German laboratory. The FBI agent Cormoran is being sent to recover the state-of-the-art and highly effective weapon. But there are some indications that he has defected to the enemy. Since agent 007 is currently on another mission, the chief of intelligence has to fall back on his second best man, the previous number 006. And so the German secret agent John Krim is given the assignment to get the rifle back, find evidence of Cormoran’s treachery and finally eliminate the colleague. Krim’s journey takes him across the ocean, and there he experiences incredible adventures in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Two women get in his way, and Krim can’t be sure whether he can trust them or whether they too are working for the other side.
Chief Black Eagle
When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the undermanned fort to lend advice and support. He learns that the Comanches have been stirred up by local rancher Morton who wants to take control of the oil under the Indians' reservation.
Captain Ruiz
Pirates capture a Spanish ship. After having landed on an island, they try to sell the surviving crew, especially the women. One of them is protected by a pirate who gained her as a prize for having saved the captain's life in the battle that ensued. Suddenly a man masked in green arrives and performs - ever haunting - in favour of the Spanish.
Henry
A serial killer called "Hyena" is finally captured and eventually hanged. But his body disappears before it can be buried, and soon thereafter dead bodies begin to turn up in a small village.
Quinto Fabio
AKA: Brennus, Enemy of Rome, AKA: Battle of the Valiant A 1963 film about the sack of Rome in 387 BC
Schwarzer Adler
European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. The area is plagued by a gang of pirates under the leadership of Captain Kelly, who live on an island in the river, from where they operate raids on passing steamboats and traders rafts, robbing them of their cargo and murdering the crews. Townspeople and settlers do their best to put an end to the crimes and rid themselves of the pirates and their daring leader.
Christian Menliff
В замок старого графа Менлиффа возвращается его блудный сын Курт, некогда изгнанный за совращение дочери служанки (та покончила собой) и лишённый наследства. Курт обнаруживает, что его возлюбленная Нивенка стала женой его брата. Он пытается вернуть женщину себе, но погибает при странных обстоятельствах. А Нивенка утверждает, что её посещает призрак покойного Курта.
The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.
