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.
- Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill 1966
- Kill Me Gently 1967
- Kill, Panther, Kill! 1968
- The Tiger Gang 1971
- So Darling, So Deadly 1966
- Island of Lost Girls 1969
- Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick 1966
- The Masked Man Against the Pirates 1964
- Attack of the Blind Dead 1973
- The Whip and the Body 1963
- The Loreley's Grasp 1973
- Machine Gun McCain 1969
- The Three Fantastic Supermen 1967
- Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century 1977
- Closed Circuit 1978
- In the Eye of the Hurricane 1971
- Gunman of One Hundred Crosses 1971
- Brother Outlaw 1971
- White Fang and the Kid 1978
- Hate Is My God 1969
- Django Challenges Sartana 1970
- Fighters from Ave Maria 1970
- Death Stone 1987
- Love Birds 1969
- Serenade for Two Spies 1965
- Attila Scourge of God 1982
- La Dernière Bourrée à Paris 1973
- Brennus, Enemy of Rome 1963
- Tales of Erotica 1973
- The Pirates of the Mississippi 1963
- Black Eagle of Santa Fe 1965
- The Criminals of the Metropolis 1967
- The Big Bust-Out 1972
- Voce del verbo amore 2007
- Le Guignolo 1980
- The Invisible Wall 1991
- Oil 1977
- Cop or Hood 1979
- On the Dark Continent 1993
- Alex the Ram 2000
- The Night of the Last Day 1973
- Crime on the Highway 1982