José Canalejas
Acting
Biography
José Canalejas was born on February 14, 1925 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain as José Álvarez Canalejas. He was an actor and director, known for Django (1966), Three Supermen of the West (1973) and El último proceso en París (1974). He was married to María del Carmen Yegros Antón. He died on May 1, 2015 in Madrid.
Born: February 14, 1925
Place of Birth: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Known For
For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
A Fistful of Dollars
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
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.
Django
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.
Curro Jiménez
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
The Mercenary
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.
God Forgives... I Don't!
In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up his sleeve...
Compañeros
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
The Hellbenders
A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.
Cemetery Without Crosses
A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
Filmography
as Míster
as Felipe
as arab
as Black Eagle
as Carcelero
as White Bear
as Professor Hugo
as Guardia Civil #1
as Dr. Salas
as Amigo de Ángel
as Berittener Soldat
as Lobo
as Fray Villavicencio
as Ruggero
as Bates' Henchman
as Tex
as (uncredited)
as Lieutenant
as Cherry
as Murdo
as Russian Guard
as Don García Henchman (uncredited)
as Guzmán
as Spiro / Angel
as Angel, Grayton's Henchman in Black
as Myakis
as Martin
as Mongo Henchman (uncredited)
as Chaco
as Deputy
as Vallee Brother (uncredited)
as Lerkin
as Wills
as Confederate soldier
as Villa's Guerrillero Rapist Killed by Fierro (uncredited)
as Jesus Santamaria
as (uncredited)
as Card Player
as Jake - Travis's Henchman
as Mexican Bandit
as Juan Valdez
as Hugo's henchman
as Chico, Member of Indio's Gang (uncredited)
as Rex Calhoun
as Millicet
as Rojo Gang Member (uncredited)
as Chirlo
as Pinchman (uncredited)
as Teniente
as Mejicano
as Paul, el pianista