Fernando Rey
Acting • Born 1917-09-20 – Died 1994-03-09
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."
Filmography
219 credits
Chimes at Midnight
Movie • 1965
Worcester
The French Connection
Movie • 1971
Alain Charnier
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Movie • 1992
Marchena
The Great Swindle
Movie • 1971
Luis
Violent Blood Bath
Movie • 1974
Oscar
French Connection II
Movie • 1975
Alain Charnier
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Movie • 1972
Don Rafael
Viridiana
Movie • 1962
Don Jaime
Navajo Joe
Movie • 1966
Reverend Rattigan
That Obscure Object of Desire
Movie • 1977
Mathieu Faber
Caboblanco
Movie • 1980
Police Captain Torredo
Angel of Death
Movie • 1985
Ohmei Felsberg
Guns of the Magnificent Seven
Movie • 1969
Quintero
Return of the Seven
Movie • 1966
Priest
Attack of the Robots
Movie • 1966
Sir Percy
Tristana
Movie • 1970
Don Lope
Face of Terror
Movie • 1962
Dr. Charles Taylor
The Last Days of Pompeii
Movie • 1959
Arbaces, High Priest of Isis
Compañeros
Movie • 1970
Prof. Xantos
Naked Tango
Movie • 1990
Judge Torres
Seven Beauties
Movie • 1975
Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner
Illustrious Corpses
Movie • 1976
Security Minister
Quintet
Movie • 1979
Grigor
Mission in Morocco
Movie • 1959
Princ Achmed
Wrath of the Wind
Movie • 1970
Don Antonio
Tarot
Movie • 1973
Arthur
El señor de La Salle
Movie • 1964
Luis XIV
The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Movie • 1984
Self
A Town Called Bastard
Movie • 1971
Old Blind Man
The Desert of the Tartars
Movie • 1976
Nathanson
Villa Rides
Movie • 1968
Fuentes
The Hit
Movie • 1984
Policeman
The Murri Affair
Movie • 1974
Prof. Murri
Legacy of the Incas
Movie • 1965
President Castillo
Star Knight
Movie • 1985
Fray Lupo
Traffic Jam
Movie • 1979
Carlo
The Light at the Edge of the World
Movie • 1971
Captain Moriz
The Price of Power
Movie • 1969
Pinkerton
Fall of a Body
Movie • 1973
M. Nansoit
The Sow
Movie • 1992
Fray Juan
Voyage of the Damned
Movie • 1976
President Bru
Don Quixote
Movie • 1947
Sansón Carrasco
White Fang
Movie • 1973
Father Oatley
La duda
Movie • 1972
Don Rodrigo - Conde de Albrit
High Crime
Movie • 1973
Cafiero
The Lovers of Toledo
Movie • 1953
Comedians
Movie • 1954
Miguel
Airport
Movie • 1953
Fernando
Saving Grace
Movie • 1986
Cardinal Stefano Biondi
Bearn
Movie • 1983
Don Antonio
Amor en el aire
Movie • 1967
Carlos Mª Saldiez
Say it with Flowers
Movie • 1974
Jacques Berger
On the Far Side of the Tunnel
Movie • 1994
Miguel
Eugenia de Montijo
Movie • 1944
Duque de Alba
Fuenteovejuna
Movie • 1947
Frondoso
Eyes Behind the Wall
Movie • 1977
Ivano
Rebeldía
Movie • 1978
Don Luis
El alcalde de Zalamea
Movie • 1954
El Rey
The Adventurers
Movie • 1970
Jaime Xenos
Cold Eyes of Fear
Movie • 1971
Juez Flower
The Savage Guns
Movie • 1961
Don Hernán
Monsignor
Movie • 1982
Cardinal Santoni
Elisa, My Life
Movie • 1977
Luis
Son of a Gunfighter
Movie • 1965
Don Pedro Fortuna
Espionage in Lisbon
Movie • 1965
Agent of the New World Organization
Sonatas
Movie • 1959
Captain Casares
Poison at 2:30
Movie • 1959
Ramón
The Woman with Red Boots
Movie • 1974
Perrot
Mi general
Movie • 1987
Director Almirante
The Castilian
Movie • 1963
Ramiro II, rey de León
Backfire
Movie • 1964
Commissioner of Beirut harbor
The Palomos
Movie • 1964
Don Alberto
Pictures of Europe
Movie • 1990
Self
Don Juan
Movie • 1956
Don Iñigo
Faustina
Movie • 1957
Valentín
Culpables
Movie • 1960
Mario
Madregilda
Movie • 1993
Franco's Father
The Devil Also Cries
Movie • 1965
Ramòn Quiroga
The Revolt of the Slaves
Movie • 1960
Valerio
Scheherazade
Movie • 1963
Al Fakid
Winter Diary
Movie • 1988
Padre
The Tunnel
Movie • 1988
Allende
A Strange Passion
Movie • 1984
Piacchi
Locura de amor
Movie • 1948
Don Felipe "el Hermoso"
A Candidate for a Killing
Movie • 1969
Marco Augusto
Fantasmas en la casa
Movie • 1961
Raimundo Rodríguez de Toledo
The New Cinderella
Movie • 1964
Juan Echarre
The Devil's Roundup
Movie • 1952
Atracador
This Kind of Love
Movie • 1972
Giovanna's father
Teresa
Movie • 1961
Profesor Héctor de la Barrera
The Miracle of Marcelino
Movie • 1955
Monje narrador
Antony and Cleopatra
Movie • 1972
Lepidus
Our Father
Movie • 1985
Cardinal
El Greco
Movie • 1966
Re Filippo II
A Matter of Time
Movie • 1976
Charles Van Maar
The Last Romantic Lover
Movie • 1978
Max
Esmeralda Bay
Movie • 1989
Ramos
Smiling Maniacs
Movie • 1975
Judge Vanini
Chaste and Pure
Movie • 1981
Antonio Di Maggio
L'Atlantide
Movie • 1992
Father Mauritius
Manuela
Movie • 1976
Don Ramón
Land Raiders
Movie • 1969
Priest
Cristo
Movie • 1954
¿... Y el prójimo?
Movie • 1974
Luis Ignacio
Black Arrow
Movie • 1985
Warwick
Drums of Fire
Movie • 1990
Papa Pablo V
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Movie • 1992
Don Quijote
A Estrangeira
Movie • 1982
André
White Sister
Movie • 1972
le directeur de l'hôpital
Le Grand Secret
Movie • 1989
Paul Corbet
España insólita
Movie • 1965
(voice)
Honey
Movie • 1981
Editor
Don Quijote
Movie • 1965
Der Herzog
The Adventures of Gil Blas
Movie • 1956
Captain Rolando
The Night Heaven Fell
Movie • 1958
Tío (alternate version)
The Singer from Mexico
Movie • 1957
Cartoni - l'impresario (uncredited)
Lady of the Camelias
Movie • 1981
Count Stackelberg
One Way
Movie • 1973
Mr. David
The Viscount
Movie • 1967
Marco Demoygne
Rogelia
Movie • 1962
Máximo García
La hora incógnita
Movie • 1963
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Movie • 1953
Narrador (voz)
Zampo y yo
Movie • 1966
Zampo
Canticle
Movie • 1972
Padrino Elisa
Goliath Against the Giants
Movie • 1961
Bokan the Usurper
The Running Man
Movie • 1963
Police Official
Paradise Hotel
Movie • 1986
Joseph
The Immortal Story
Movie • 1968
Merchant
Blood and Dust
Movie • 1992
Sultan Saladin
Striptease
Movie • 1976
Alfonso
Pasodoble
Movie • 1988
Don Nuño
Der Marquis - der Mann, der sich verkaufen wollte
Movie • 1965
Verleger Ramos
Samson and Gideon
Movie • 1965
Lo straniero / The Stranger - Angel of the Lord
Agustina of Aragon
Movie • 1950
General Palafox/Lorenzo, el pastor
Looking for Jesus
Movie • 1982
Don Filippo
Noche de reyes
Movie • 1948
Las últimas banderas
Movie • 1954
Miguel Bermejo
Breath of Life
Movie • 1990
Gran Magno
The Rash One
Movie • 1964
El Rico Pintor
Cabaret
Movie • 1953
Carlos Jiménez
Mare nostrum
Movie • 1948
Ulises / Capitán Ferragut
The Enchanted Forest
Movie • 1987
Mr. D'Abondo
La pródiga
Movie • 1946
José
Los cuatro robinsones
Movie • 1939
Trágala, perro
Movie • 1981
Juez
Aventuras de Juan Lucas
Movie • 1949
Juan Lucas
The Ceremony
Movie • 1963
Sanchez
Black Sky
Movie • 1951
Ángel López Veiga
Si te hubieses casado conmigo
Movie • 1948
Enrique Marín Rubio
Un marido de ida y vuelta
Movie • 1957
Paco
Memorias de Leticia Valle
Movie • 1980
Don Fernando Valle
El segundo poder
Movie • 1976
Cardenal
The Desperate Ones
Movie • 1967
Ibram
Don Lucio and Brother Pío
Movie • 1960
Señor Aguilar
Luis Buñuel: constructor de infiernos
Movie • 1986
Self
La señora de Fátima
Movie • 1951
Lorenzo Duarte
La laguna negra
Movie • 1952
Miguel
Los últimos de Filipinas
Movie • 1945
Juan Chamizo
El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?
Movie • 1994
Gregorio
Run Like a Thief
Movie • 1967
Col. Romero
Historia de la frivolidad
Movie • 1967
Gent
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
Movie • 1967
Filipe II
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
Movie • 1989
Il professor Rune
El Quijote desde la platea
Movie • 2019
Self - Actor / Don Quixote (archive footage)
Buñuel
Movie • 1989
Self
After the Dream
Movie • 1992
Ramiro Lanza
Rustlers' Rhapsody
Movie • 1985
Railroad Colonel
The Amazing Doctor G
Movie • 1965
Goldginger
Sevilla Penitente
Movie • 1958
The Two Faces of Fear
Movie • 1972
Inspector Nardi
The Assignment
Movie • 1977
Bidara
La Rana Verde
Movie • 1958
Narrator (voice)
Vida sin risas
Movie • 1960
Air Lashings
Movie • 1951
Narrador (voz)
Siempre es domingo
Movie • 1961
Juez Andonelli
Aoom
Movie • 1970
Fin de semana
Movie • 1964
Entrevistador
The Crime of Cuenca
Movie • 1981
Contreras
Day of Fear
Movie • 1957
Reina santa
Movie • 1947
Infante Alfonso
Crimen en el entreacto
Movie • 1954
Scent of a Crime
Movie • 1988
Fayón
Parque de Madrid
Movie • 1959
Don Luis
Madrugada
Movie • 1957
Mauricio (voice) (uncredited)
La vida en un bloc
Movie • 1956
(voice) (uncredited)
¡Viva lo imposible!
Movie • 1958
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
El rey que rabió
Movie • 1940
Extra (uncredited)
Leyenda rota
Movie • 1940
Extra (uncredited)
Revenge
Movie • 1958
Writer
Sabela De Cambados
Movie • 1949
Narrator (voice)
Don Quixote
Movie • 1992
Closing Scene Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Playa prohibida
Movie • 1956
Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos!
Movie • 1967
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Flamenco
Movie • 1952
(voz)
Rebeldía
Movie • 1954
Capellán
Billete para Tánger
Movie • 1955
Inspector
Speaking of Buñuel
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Señores del espacio
Movie
Los preparativos
Movie • 1968
Noche de Reyes
Movie • 1949
La aventura de Api
Movie • 1964
Un pequeño colonizador verde
Movie • 1968
El mejillón gallego
Movie • 1970
Torerillos, 61
Movie • 1962
Narrator (voice)
My Son, the Hero
Movie • 1962
High Priest (uncredited)
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
Jesus of Nazareth
TV • 1977
Gaspar
Mission of Love
TV • 1993
Pacheco
Blaues Blut
TV • 1989
Dekker
Arnau
TV • 1994
Compte de Barcelona
I promessi sposi
TV • 1989
Conte zio
A.D.
TV • 1985
Seneca
Origins of the Mafia
TV • 1976
Baron Della Spina
Imágenes perdidas
TV • 1991
Himself - Narrator
Le Grand Secret
TV • 1989
Paul Corbet
Il ricatto
TV • 1989
Magistrato Di Nola
The House of Ulloa
TV • 1985
Sr. De La Lage
Don Quijote de la Mancha
TV • 1992
Don Quijote
Don Quijote von der Mancha
TV • 1965
Der Herzog / le duc