Fernando Rey
Known for: Acting
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."
Filmography
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
Jesus of Nazareth
Gaspar
1977
Film
The French Connection
Alain Charnier
1971
Film
Honey
Editor
1981
Film
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Marchena
1992
Film
The Rash One
El Rico Pintor
1964
Series
A.D.
Seneca
1985
Film
That Obscure Object of Desire
Mathieu Faber
1977
Film
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Don Rafael
1972
Film
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Quintero
1969
Film
After the Dream
Ramiro Lanza
1992
Film
Return of the Seven
Priest
1966
Film
Scheherazade
Al Fakid
1963
Film
French Connection II
Alain Charnier
1975
Film
Voyage of the Damned
President Bru
1976
Series
Origins of the Mafia
Baron Della Spina
1976
Series
Historia de España: La noche de los tiempos
Narrador (voz)
1972
Film
La pródiga
José
1946
Film
Viridiana
Don Jaime
1962
Film
The Miracle of Marcelino
Monje narrador
1955
Series
I promessi sposi
Conte zio
1989
Film
Tristana
Don Lope
1970
Film
Chimes at Midnight
Worcester
1965
Film
The Savage Guns
Don Hernán
1961
Film
The Running Man
Police Official
1963
Film
Villa Rides
Fuentes
1968
Film
The Last Days of Pompeii
Arbaces, High Priest of Isis
1959
Film
Navajo Joe
Reverend Rattigan
1966
Film
Compañeros
Prof. Xantos
1970
Film
The Hit
Policeman
1984
Film
White Fang
Father Oatley
1973
Film
Violent Blood Bath
Oscar
1974
Film
The Adventurers
Jaime Xenos
1970
Film
Los preparativos
1968
Film
High Crime
Cafiero
1973
Film
The Desert of the Tartars
Nathanson
1976
Film
Mi general
Director Almirante
1987
Film
Rebeldía
Capellán
1954
Film
Naked Tango
Judge Torres
1990
Film
Illustrious Corpses
Security Minister
1976
Film
Caboblanco
Police Captain Torredo
1980
Film
Antony and Cleopatra
Lepidus
1972
Film
Rustlers' Rhapsody
Railroad Colonel
1985
Film
Angel of Death
Ohmei Felsberg
1985
Film
The Light at the Edge of the World
Captain Moriz
1971
Film
Don Juan
Don Iñigo
1956
Blaues Blut
Dekker
1989
Series
Le Grand Secret
Paul Corbet
1989
Film
Seven Beauties
Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner
1975
Film
Land Raiders
Priest
1969
Film
Our Father
Cardinal
1985
Film
My Son, the Hero
High Priest (uncredited)
1962
Series
Don Quijote von der Mancha
Der Herzog / le duc
1965
Series
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote
1992
Film
Chaste and Pure
Antonio Di Maggio
1981
Film
Drums of Fire
Papa Pablo V
1990
Film
Wrath of the Wind
Don Antonio
1970
Film
The Night Heaven Fell
Tío (alternate version)
1958
Film
Backfire
Commissioner of Beirut harbor
1964
Film
Elisa, My Life
Luis
1977
Film
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Narrador (voz)
1953
Film
Saving Grace
Cardinal Stefano Biondi
1986
Film
Agustina of Aragon
General Palafox/Lorenzo, el pastor
1950
Film
A Town Called Bastard
Old Blind Man
1971
Film
A Matter of Time
Charles Van Maar
1976
Film
Pictures of Europe
Self
1990
Film
Quintet
Grigor
1979
Film
Traffic Jam
Carlo
1979
Film
Lady of the Camelias
Count Stackelberg
1981
Series
Arnau
Compte de Barcelona
1994
Film
Son of a Gunfighter
Don Pedro Fortuna
1965
Film
The Immortal Story
Merchant
1968
Film
Eyes Behind the Wall
Ivano
1977
Series
Mission of Love
Pacheco
1993
Film
Fuenteovejuna
Frondoso
1947
Series
The House of Ulloa
Sr. De La Lage
1985
Film
Locura de amor
Don Felipe "el Hermoso"
1948
Film
Goliath Against the Giants
Bokan the Usurper
1961
Film
Don Quixote
Closing Scene Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1992
Film
The Tunnel
Allende
1988
Film
Star Knight
Fray Lupo
1985
Film
The Woman with Red Boots
Perrot
1974
Film
The Price of Power
Pinkerton
1969
Film
Black Arrow
Warwick
1985
Film
La laguna negra
Miguel
1952
Film
Speaking of Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
2000
Film
The Last Romantic Lover
Max
1978
Film
Smiling Maniacs
Judge Vanini
1975
Film
Legacy of the Incas
President Castillo
1965
Film
Monsignor
Cardinal Santoni
1982
Film
Vida sin risas
1960
Film
The Lovers of Toledo
1953
Film
The Ceremony
Sanchez
1963
Film
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
Filipe II
1967
Film
Don Quijote
Der Herzog
1965
Film
Memorias de Leticia Valle
Don Fernando Valle
1980
Film
The Amazing Doctor G
Goldginger
1965
Film
Cold Eyes of Fear
Juez Flower
1971
Film
The Two Faces of Fear
Inspector Nardi
1972
Film
Samson and Gideon
Lo straniero / The Stranger - Angel of the Lord
1965
Film
Sonatas
Captain Casares
1959
Film
White Sister
le directeur de l'hôpital
1972
Film
The Revolt of the Slaves
Valerio
1960
Film
Billete para Tánger
Inspector
1955
Film
A Strange Passion
Piacchi
1984
Imágenes perdidas
Himself - Narrator
1991
Film
Zampo y yo
Zampo
1966
Film
The Enchanted Forest
Mr. D'Abondo
1987
Film
Paco, mi padre
1992
Film
Attack of the Robots
Sir Percy
1966
Film
Canticle
Padrino Elisa
1972
Film
Esmeralda Bay
Ramos
1989
Film
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Self
1984
Film
The Assignment
Bidara
1977
Film
The Murri Affair
Prof. Murri
1974
Film
Revenge
Writer
1958
Film
The Great Swindle
Luis
1971
Film
Face of Terror
Dr. Charles Taylor
1962
Film
Sabela De Cambados
Narrator (voice)
1949
Il ricatto
Magistrato Di Nola
1989
Film
The Castilian
Ramiro II, rey de León
1963
Film
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
Il professor Rune
1989
Sevilla Penitente
1958
Film
Siempre es domingo
Juez Andonelli
1961
Film
Airport
Fernando
1953
Film
The Crime of Cuenca
Contreras
1981
Film
El Greco
Re Filippo II
1966
Film
Don Quixote
Sansón Carrasco
1947
Film
Aoom
1970
Film
Scent of a Crime
Fayón
1988
Film
El segundo poder
Cardenal
1976
Film
Mare nostrum
Ulises / Capitán Ferragut
1948
Film
Say it with Flowers
Jacques Berger
1974
Film
A Candidate for a Killing
Marco Augusto
1969
Film
Historia de la frivolidad
Gent
1967
Film
The Singer from Mexico
Cartoni - l'impresario (uncredited)
1957
Film
Noche de reyes
1948
Film
La señora de Fátima
Lorenzo Duarte
1951
Film
El señor de La Salle
Luis XIV
1964
Film
Manuela
Don Ramón
1976
Film
A Estrangeira
André
1982
Film
The Desperate Ones
Ibram
1967
Film
Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1967
Film
The Sow
Fray Juan
1992
Film
Blood and Dust
Sultan Saladin
1992
Film
Looking for Jesus
Don Filippo
1982
Film
Un marido de ida y vuelta
Paco
1957
Film
The Viscount
Marco Demoygne
1967
Film
The Devil Also Cries
Ramòn Quiroga
1965
Film
¡Viva lo imposible!
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1958
Film
Fin de semana
Entrevistador
1964
Film
This Kind of Love
Giovanna's father
1972
Film
Striptease
Alfonso
1976
Film
Madregilda
Franco's Father
1993
Film
Tarot
Arthur
1973
Film
Paradise Hotel
Joseph
1986
Film
La hora incógnita
1963
Film
Fall of a Body
M. Nansoit
1973
Torerillos, 61
Narrator (voice)
1962
Film
Pasodoble
Don Nuño
1988
Film
Der Marquis - der Mann, der sich verkaufen wollte
Verleger Ramos
1965
Señores del espacio
Film
Playa prohibida
1956
Film
El alcalde de Zalamea
El Rey
1954
Film
Buñuel
Self
1989
Film
Espionage in Lisbon
Agent of the New World Organization
1965
Film
El Quijote desde la platea
Self - Actor / Don Quixote (archive footage)
2019
Film
L'Atlantide
Father Mauritius
1992
Film
Reina santa
Infante Alfonso
1947
Film
Poison at 2:30
Ramón
1959
Film
Los últimos de Filipinas
Juan Chamizo
1945
Film
The Devil's Roundup
Atracador
1952
Film
Leyenda rota
Extra (uncredited)
1940
Film
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quijote
1992
Film
Le Grand Secret
Paul Corbet
1989
Film
Cabaret
Carlos Jiménez
1953
El mejillón gallego
1970
Film
La vida en un bloc
(voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
One Way
Mr. David
1973
Film
Amor en el aire
Carlos Mª Saldiez
1967
Film
Si te hubieses casado conmigo
Enrique Marín Rubio
1948
Film
Comedians
Miguel
1954
Film
Air Lashings
Narrador (voz)
1951
Film
España insólita
(voice)
1965
Film
Eugenia de Montijo
Duque de Alba
1944
Film
El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?
Gregorio
1994
Film
The New Cinderella
Juan Echarre
1964
Film
Trágala, perro
Juez
1981
Film
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
1998
Film
Crimen en el entreacto
1954
Film
Day of Fear
1957
Film
La duda
Don Rodrigo - Conde de Albrit
1972
Film
Los cuatro robinsones
1939
Film
Run Like a Thief
Col. Romero
1967
Film
The Adventures of Gil Blas
Captain Rolando
1956
Luis Buñuel: constructor de infiernos
Self
1986
Film
Faustina
Valentín
1957
Film
The Palomos
Don Alberto
1964
Film
Las últimas banderas
Miguel Bermejo
1954
Film
Parque de Madrid
Don Luis
1959
Film
¿... Y el prójimo?
Luis Ignacio
1974
Film
Black Sky
Ángel López Veiga
1951
Film
Fantasmas en la casa
Raimundo Rodríguez de Toledo
1961
Film
Rogelia
Máximo García
1962
Film
Bearn
Don Antonio
1983
Film
Culpables
Mario
1960
Film
Cristo
1954
Film
On the Far Side of the Tunnel
Miguel
1994
Film
Don Lucio and Brother Pío
Señor Aguilar
1960
Film
Breath of Life
Gran Magno
1990
Film
Winter Diary
Padre
1988
Film
La Rana Verde
Narrator (voice)
1958
Film
Mission in Morocco
Princ Achmed
1959
Film
Madrugada
Mauricio (voice) (uncredited)
1957
Film
Rebeldía
Don Luis
1978
Film
Teresa
Profesor Héctor de la Barrera
1961
Film
La princesa de los Ursinos
Felipe V
1947
Film
Flamenco
(voz)
1952
Film
El rey que rabió
Extra (uncredited)
1940
La aventura de Api
1964
Film
Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Juan Lucas
1949
Film
Un pequeño colonizador verde
1968