Fernando Rey

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-09-20 (77 years old)

Deathday

1994-03-09

Place of Birth

A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Fernando Rey

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:...

Acting

1965

Chimes at Midnight

as Worcester

1971

The French Connection

as Alain Charnier

1974

1975

French Connection II

as Alain Charnier

1962

Viridiana

as Don Jaime

1966

Navajo Joe

as Reverend Rattigan

1977

1980

Caboblanco

as Police Captain Torredo

1985

Angel of Death

as Ohmei Felsberg

1966

1966

1970

Tristana

as Don Lope

1962

Face of Terror

as Dr. Charles Taylor

1959

The Last Days of Pompeii

as Arbaces, High Priest of Isis

1970

Compañeros

as Prof. Xantos

1990

Naked Tango

as Judge Torres

1975

Seven Beauties

as Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner

1976

Illustrious Corpses

as Security Minister

1979

Quintet

as Grigor

1959

Mission in Morocco

as Princ Achmed

1970

Wrath of the Wind

as Don Antonio

1973

Tarot

as Arthur

1964

1971

A Town Called Hell

as Old Blind Man

1968

Villa Rides

as Fuentes

1984

The Hit

as Policeman

1974

The Murri Affair

as Prof. Murri

1965

Legacy of the Incas

as President Castillo

1985

Star Knight

as Fray Lupo

1979

Traffic Jam

as Carlo

1969

The Price of Power

as Pinkerton

1973

Fall of a Body

as M. Nansoit

1992

The Sow

as Fray Juan

1976

Voyage of the Damned

as President Bru

1947

Don Quixote

as Sansón Carrasco

1973

White Fang

as Father Oatley

1972

La duda

as Don Rodrigo - Conde de Albrit

1973

High Crime

as Cafiero

1954

Comedians

as Miguel

1953

Airport

as Fernando

1986

Saving Grace

as Cardinal Stefano Biondi

1983

Bearn

as Don Antonio

1967

Amor en el aire

as Carlos Mª Saldiez

1974

Say it with Flowers

as Jacques Berger

1944

Eugenia de Montijo

as Duque de Alba

1947

Fuenteovejuna

as Frondoso

1978

Rebeldía

as Don Luis

1970

The Adventurers

as Jaime Xenos

1971

Cold Eyes of Fear

as Juez Flower

1961

The Savage Guns

as Don Hernán

1982

Monsignor

as Cardinal Santoni

1977

1965

Son of a Gunfighter

as Don Pedro Fortuna

1965

Espionage in Lisbon

as Agent of the New World Organization

1959

Sonatas

as Captain Casares

1959

1962

My Son, the Hero

as Hoher Priester

1987

Mi general

as Director Almirante

1963

The Castilian

as Ramiro II, rey de León

1964

Backfire

as Commissioner of Beirut harbor

1964

The Palomos

as Don Alberto

1956

Don Juan

as Don Iñigo

1957

Faustina

as Valentín

1960

Culpables

as Mario

1993

Madregilda

as Franco's Father

1965

The Devil Also Cries

as Ramòn Quiroga

1963

Scheherazade

as Al Fakid

1988

Winter Diary

as Padre

1988

The Tunnel

as Allende

1984

1948

Locura de amor

as Don Felipe "el Hermoso"

1969

1961

Fantasmas en la casa

as Raimundo Rodríguez de Toledo

1964

The New Cinderella

as Juan Echarre

1952

1972

This Kind of Love

as Giovanna's father

1961

Teresa

as Profesor Héctor de la Barrera

1955

The Miracle of Marcelino

as Monje narrador

1972

1985

Our Father

as Cardinal

1966

El Greco

as Re Filippo II

1976

A Matter of Time

as Charles Van Maar

1989

1975

Smiling Maniacs

as Judge Vanini

1981

Chaste and Pure

as Antonio Di Maggio

1992

L'Atlantide

as Father Mauritius

1976

Manuela

as Don Ramón

1969

Land Raiders

as Priest

1954

1974

¿... Y el prójimo?

as Luis Ignacio

1985

Black Arrow

as Warwick

1990

Drums of Fire

as Papa Pablo V

1982

A Estrangeira

as André

1972

White Sister

as le directeur de l'hôpital

1989

Le Grand Secret

as Paul Corbet

1965

1981

Honey

as Editor

1965

Don Quijote

as Der Herzog

1956

The Adventures of Gil Blas

as Captain Rolando

1958

The Night Heaven Fell

as Tío (alternate version)

1957

The Singer from Mexico

as Cartoni - l'impresario (uncredited)

1981

Lady of the Camelias

as Count Stackelberg

1973

One Way

as Mr. David

1967

The Viscount

as Marco Demoygne

1962

Rogelia

as Máximo García

1953

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

as Narrador (voz)

1966

Zampo y yo

as Zampo

1972

Canticle

as Padrino Elisa

1961

Goliath Against the Giants

as Bokan the Usurper

1963

The Running Man

as Police Official

1986

1968

1992

Blood and Dust

as Sultan Saladin

1976

Striptease

as Alfonso

1988

Pasodoble

as Don Nuño

1965

Samson and Gideon

as Lo straniero / The Stranger - Angel of the Lord

1950

Agustina of Aragon

as General Palafox/Lorenzo, el pastor

1982

Looking for Jesus

as Don Filippo

1954

Las últimas banderas

as Miguel Bermejo

1990

Breath of Life

as Gran Magno

1964

The Rash One

as El Rico Pintor

1953

Cabaret

as Carlos Jiménez

1948

Mare nostrum

as Ulises / Capitán Ferragut

1987

The Enchanted Forest

as Mr. D'Abondo

1946

La pródiga

as José

1981

1949

1963

The Ceremony

as Sanchez

1951

Black Sky

as Ángel López Veiga

1948

Si te hubieses casado conmigo

as Enrique Marín Rubio

1980

Memorias de Leticia Valle

as Don Fernando Valle

1976

El segundo poder

as Cardenal

1967

1960

1951

La señora de Fátima

as Lorenzo Duarte

1952

1945

1967

Run Like a Thief

as Col. Romero

1989

2019

El Quijote desde la platea

as Self - Actor / Don Quixote (archive footage)

1989

Buñuel

as Self

1992

After the Dream

as Ramiro Lanza

1985

Rustlers' Rhapsody

as Railroad Colonel

1965

1972

The Two Faces of Fear

as Inspector Nardi

1977

1958

La Rana Verde

as Narrator (voice)

1951

Air Lashings

as Narrador (voz)

1961

Siempre es domingo

as Juez Andonelli

1970

1964

Fin de semana

as Entrevistador

1981

1947

Reina santa

as Infante Alfonso

1988

1959

Parque de Madrid

as Don Luis

1957

Madrugada

as Mauricio (voice) (uncredited)

1956

La vida en un bloc

as (voice) (uncredited)

1958

¡Viva lo imposible!

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1940

El rey que rabió

as Extra (uncredited)

1940

Leyenda rota

as Extra (uncredited)

1958

Revenge

as Writer

1949

Sabela De Cambados

as Narrator (voice)

1992

Don Quixote

as Closing Scene Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1967

Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos!

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1952

Flamenco

as (voz)

1954

Rebeldía

as Capellán

1955

2000

Speaking of Buñuel

as Self (archive footage)

1962

Torerillos, 61

as Narrator (voice)

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