
Fernando Rey
Born: 1917-09-20
Place of Birth: A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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."
Known For

Don Lucio and Brother Pío

Mission in Morocco

Der Marquis - der Mann, der sich verkaufen wollte

Drums of Fire

Run Like a Thief

On the Far Side of the Tunnel

La señora de Fátima

Honey

Saving Grace

La pródiga

The French Connection

The Assignment

After the Dream

Breath of Life

The Lovers of Toledo

Airport

Guns of the Magnificent Seven

1492: Conquest of Paradise

The Adventurers

Mare nostrum

Comedians

The Sow

The Ceremony

Revenge

Illustrious Corpses

Pero… ¡en qué país vivimos!

Mi general

Tristana

The Murri Affair

Backfire

The Miracle of Marcelino

Tarot

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes

Our Father

Manuela

Don Juan

Trágala, perro

Angel of Death

Don Quixote

Return of the Seven

Reina santa

La duda

Pictures of Europe

The Tunnel

Monsignor

Rustlers' Rhapsody

A Estrangeira

Traffic Jam

Seven Beauties

Aoom

Las últimas banderas

That Obscure Object of Desire

Black Arrow

Los preparativos

The Rash One

Bearn

Madrugada

Playa prohibida

Voyage of the Damned

Cristo

El rey que rabió

The Enchanted Forest

The Hit

Pasodoble

Caboblanco

Culpables

The Palomos

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Savage Guns

Villa Rides

Don Quixote

Fin de semana

Rebeldía

Scheherazade

The Desperate Ones

Chaste and Pure

Violent Blood Bath

Esmeralda Bay

¡Viva lo imposible!

White Sister

La Rana Verde

Say it with Flowers

The Desert of the Tartars

Fuenteovejuna

La laguna negra

Compañeros

The Devil's Roundup

Billete para Tánger

Attack of the Robots

Samson and Gideon

The Two Faces of Fear

Faustina

Amor en el aire

Chimes at Midnight

Un pequeño colonizador verde

The Last Romantic Lover

Viridiana

This Kind of Love

French Connection II

Agustina of Aragon

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

Naked Tango

A Town Called Bastard

My Son, the Hero

El señor de La Salle

Buñuel

Don Quijote

Canticle

Legacy of the Incas

The Light at the Edge of the World

Parque de Madrid

Eugenia de Montijo

A Matter of Time

Navajo Joe

Noche de reyes

Antony and Cleopatra

El Quijote desde la platea

Welcome Mr. Marshall!

Noche de Reyes

The Night Heaven Fell

Land Raiders

White Fang

High Crime

The Running Man

Goliath Against the Giants

The Immortal Story

The Last Days of Pompeii

Locura de amor

Espionage in Lisbon

Zampo y yo

¿... Y el prójimo?

Quintet

Lady of the Camelias

The Amazing Doctor G

The Woman with Red Boots

Wrath of the Wind

The Castilian

Aventuras de Juan Lucas

The Crime of Cuenca

The Revolt of the Slaves

Star Knight

Sabela De Cambados

Eyes Behind the Wall

Playmate

España insólita

El Greco

El alcalde de Zalamea

Siempre es domingo

Paradise Hotel

Elisa, My Life

The Price of Power

Scent of a Crime

Si te hubieses casado conmigo

The Viscount

Historia de la frivolidad

Memorias de Leticia Valle

Rogelia

Smiling Maniacs

Madregilda

Crimen en el entreacto

Leyenda rota

La vida en un bloc

La hora incógnita

Sonatas

The New Cinderella

Face of Terror

El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?

Vida sin risas

Air Lashings

Cold Eyes of Fear

Speaking of Buñuel

Son of a Gunfighter

El segundo poder

Teresa

Blood and Dust

Rebeldía

One Way

Looking for Jesus

Fall of a Body

Striptease

The Great Swindle

Poison at 2:30

The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel

El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes

Los últimos de Filipinas

Cabaret

Black Sky

A Candidate for a Killing

The Singer from Mexico

Flamenco

Day of Fear

A Strange Passion

L'Atlantide

The Devil Also Cries

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato

Fantasmas en la casa

The Adventures of Gil Blas

Los cuatro robinsones

Le Grand Secret

Winter Diary
