Fernando Rey
Acting
Biography
Fernando Rey (September 20, 1917 – March 9, 1994) — best known as Fernando Rey — was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States. A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel (Tristana, 1970; Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972; That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977) and as a drug lord in The French Connection (1971), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century. The debonair Rey was described by French Connection producer Philip D'Antoni as "the last of the Continental guys". He achieved his greatest notoriety after he turned 50: "Perhaps it is a pity that my success came so late in life", he told The Times of Madrid in 1973. "It might have been better to have been successful while young, like El Cordobes in the bullring. Then your life is all before you to enjoy it."
Born: September 20, 1917
Place of Birth: A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Known For
La laguna negra
In a village in the mountains of Urbión, brothers John and Martin, driven by greed and abetted by Candelas, Martin's wife, kill his father and sink the body in the Black Lagoon. His wife and one daughter of the victim does not know anything. In the village would get missing. However, from now weigh a curse on the land for which they have committed the crime, predicting each year misfortunes and bad harvests.
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.
Jesus of Nazareth
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Viridiana
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
El alcalde de Zalamea
Film version of the historic piece of Calderon de la Barca. An army officer faces the local authority that intends to judge him for having stained the honor of a young girl
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great favor. He falls in love with a famous Italian courtesan and she with him. Unfortunately, the Pope splits them apart with his newest decree which demands that all prostitutes leave the city. Upset, Cervantes goes to fight in the famed sea battle of Lepanto and comes back a hero. Later he is captured by Barbary pirates and ransomed by Trinitarian friars.
Don Quijote von der Mancha
Confused by tales of knights and their glorious deeds, Don Alonso, as Don Quixote de la Mancha, sets out fearlessly as a knight-errant with his friend and faithful squire Sancho Panza to accomplish great things. With rickety armor and a barber's basin for a helmet, he fights windmills, mistakes washerwomen for princesses, and monks for evil sorcerers. While Don Quixote dedicates all his deeds and the entire glory of his lady love, the most beautiful maiden Dulcinea, he contributes to the amusement of all involved.
The French Connection
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Seven Beauties
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
Filmography
as Self - Actor / Don Quixote (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Gregorio
as Miguel
as Compte de Barcelona
as Franco's Father
as Pacheco
as Fray Juan
as Father Mauritius
as Marchena
as Ramiro Lanza
as Sultan Saladin
as Closing Scene Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Don Quijote
as Don Quijote
as Papa Pablo V
as Gran Magno
as Judge Torres
as Self
as Conte zio
as Ramos
as Magistrato Di Nola
as Il professor Rune
as Paul Corbet
as Paul Corbet
as Self
as Fayón
as Padre
as Don Nuño
as Allende
as Mr. D'Abondo
as Director Almirante
as Cardinal Stefano Biondi
as Joseph
as Fray Lupo
as Sr. De La Lage
as Warwick
as Ohmei Felsberg
as Railroad Colonel
as Cardinal
as Seneca
as Piacchi
as Policeman
as Don Antonio
as Cardinal Santoni
as Don Filippo
as André
as Juez
as Antonio Di Maggio
as Contreras
as Editor
as Count Stackelberg
as Don Fernando Valle
as Police Captain Torredo
as Grigor
as Carlo
as Don Luis
as Max
as Mathieu Faber
as Bidara
as Ivano
as Luis
as Gaspar
as President Bru
as Baron Della Spina
as Nathanson
as Charles Van Maar
as Don Ramón
as Security Minister
as Cardenal
as Alfonso
as Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner
as Alain Charnier
as Judge Vanini
as Perrot
as Prof. Murri
as Jacques Berger
as Oscar
as Luis Ignacio
as Father Oatley
as M. Nansoit
as Mr. David
as Cafiero
as Arthur
as Don Rafael
as Don Rodrigo - Conde de Albrit
as Padrino Elisa
as le directeur de l'hôpital
as Lepidus
as Inspector Nardi
as Giovanna's father
as Old Blind Man
as Alain Charnier
as Captain Moriz
as Juez Flower
as Luis
as Prof. Xantos
as Don Antonio
as Don Lope
as Jaime Xenos
as Pinkerton
as Marco Augusto
as Priest
as Quintero
as Merchant
as Fuentes
as Carlos Mª Saldiez
as Filipe II
as Col. Romero
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Ibram
as Marco Demoygne
as Gent
as Reverend Rattigan
as Priest
as Re Filippo II
as Zampo
as Sir Percy
as Worcester
as Verleger Ramos
as Agent of the New World Organization
as Goldginger
as Der Herzog / le duc
as President Castillo
as Don Pedro Fortuna
as (voice)
as Ramòn Quiroga
as Lo straniero / The Stranger - Angel of the Lord
as Der Herzog
as Entrevistador
as Don Alberto
as Juan Echarre
as El Rico Pintor
as Commissioner of Beirut harbor
as Luis XIV
as Sanchez
as Police Official
as Al Fakid
as Ramiro II, rey de León
as Dr. Charles Taylor
as High Priest (uncredited)
as Don Jaime
as Máximo García
as Don Hernán
as Juez Andonelli
as Raimundo Rodríguez de Toledo
as Bokan the Usurper
as Profesor Héctor de la Barrera
as Valerio
as Señor Aguilar
as Mario
as Ramón
as Arbaces, High Priest of Isis
as Captain Casares
as Princ Achmed
as Don Luis
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Narrator (voice)
as Writer
as Tío (alternate version)
as Paco
as Mauricio (voice) (uncredited)
as Valentín
as Cartoni - l'impresario (uncredited)
as Don Iñigo
as Captain Rolando
as (voice) (uncredited)
as Inspector
as Monje narrador
as Miguel
as Capellán
as El Rey
as Miguel Bermejo
as Fernando
as Narrador (voz)
as Carlos Jiménez
as Miguel
as (voz)
as Atracador
as Lorenzo Duarte
as Narrador (voz)
as Ángel López Veiga
as General Palafox/Lorenzo, el pastor
as Narrator (voice)
as Juan Lucas
as Ulises / Capitán Ferragut
as Don Felipe "el Hermoso"
as Enrique Marín Rubio
as Frondoso
as Sansón Carrasco
as Infante Alfonso
as José
as Juan Chamizo
as Duque de Alba
as Extra (uncredited)
as Extra (uncredited)