TONY KENDALL
ACTING
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.
- Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick1966
- Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill1966
- So Darling, So Deadly1966
- Kill Me Gently1967
- Kill, Panther, Kill!1968
- Island of Lost Girls1969
- The Tiger Gang1971
- Attack of the Blind Dead1973
- The Whip and the Body1963
- The Loreley's Grasp1973
- The Three Fantastic Supermen1967
- Machine Gun McCain1969
- Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century1977
- Closed Circuit1978
- In the Eye of the Hurricane1971
- Gunman of One Hundred Crosses1971
- Brother Outlaw1971
- Hate Is My God1969
- Django Defies Sartana1970
- Fighters from Ave Maria1970
- Serenade for Two Spies1965
- White Fang and the Kid1978
- Tales of Erotica1973
- Black Eagle of Santa Fe1965
- The Criminals of the Metropolis1967
- The Big Bust Out1972
- Crime on the Highway1982
- Voce del verbo amore2007
- Le Guignolo1980
- The Invisible Wall1991
- Oil1977
- Cop or Hood1979
- On the Dark Continent1993
- Alex the Ram2000
- The Night of the Last Day1973
- The Masked Man Against the Pirates1964
- Attila flagello di Dio1982
- La Dernière Bourrée à Paris1973