Fernando Rey Filmography

Born:: September 20, 1917 in La Coruna, Spain
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Fernando Casado Arambillet
Biography:: An architecture student, Fernando Rey interrupted his studies to fight in the Spanish Civil War against the Frangiste. He entered films as an extra in 1940. Resembling a Goya painting come to life, the cadaverous Rey is best remembered internationally for his appearances in such Luis Bunuel...Read More

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Al Otro Lado del Tunel

Actors: Fernando Rey, Maribel Verdú, Gonzalo Vega, Amparo Baro, Rafael Alonso

Synopsis: This Spanish film, shot in the lovely Huesca region, pokes gentle fun at the showbiz aspirations of five monks in a lonely monastery. When the grouchy old screenwriter cannot meet his deadline for the script for a new and already dull movie, he and his partner end up sequestered in a Spanish Read More

1994
Madregilda

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Juan Echanove, Barbara Auer, Kamel Cherif, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: Spain, having suffered a civil war in the 1930s, was a neutral country during World War II. Generalissimo Francisco Franco (Juan Echanove) was the sole ruler of what was then deliberately fashioned into a puritanical society. In this satire, the hypocrisy of Madrid society in that period is Read More

1993
Breath of Life

Synopsis: The physical and emotional wounds suffered by tubercular Italian veterans from WW II living in a sanitarium provides the basis of this episodic psychological study. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
La Marrana

1992
Despues Del Sueno

Actors: Carmelo Gómez, Ana Belén, Fernando Rey, Eulalia Ramon

Synopsis: In this mystery, a Picasso painting has been stolen. Various people are involved in the resolution of the story, including a lawyer with an eye for the women, and that lawyer's diffident shy client who winds up with the lawyer's gorgeous girlfriend. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Di Ceria Dell 'Untore

Actors: Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, Vanessa Redgrave, Salvatore Cascio

1992
1492: Conquest of Paradise

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Wincott, Loren Dean, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: This, the second of 1992's 500th anniversary Christopher Columbus films (the first being Warner Bros. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery), adheres to the historical facts of Columbus's (Gerard Depardieu) possessed quest to discover the New World, and his solicitation of Queen Isabella (Sigourney Weaver Read More

1992
Don Quixote de Orson Welles

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Over the course of his lifetime, the legendary director Orson Welles (1915-1985) was forced to leave many of his grander movie-making projects unfinished, generally for want of sustained financial backing. Each successive unfinished effort generated buzz throughout the worshipful film community Read More

1992
Naked Tango

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey, Cipe Lincovsky

Synopsis: A woman desperate to change her life takes a wrong turn into danger and degradation in this drama. In 1924, Stephanie (Mathilda May) is travelling to Buenos Aires with her husband, who is considerably older than her and in poor health. Stephanie is not happy with her life, so when a young woman Read More

8/23/91
Bitva Trekh Koroley

Actors: Massimo Gini, Klaudia Kardinale, Ugo Tonyatstsi, Farida Muminova, Fernando Rey

1990
El Tunel

Synopsis: The obsession of a man for a married woman leads to tragedy in this romantic melodrama. Juan Pablo Castel (Peter Weller) is an artist who sees a woman admiring one of his paintings at an art exhibit. When he goes to introduce himself, she quickly disappears. Castel follows her through the streets Read More

1989
Diario De Invierno

Actors: Eusebio Poncela, Fernando Rey, Francisco Algora

Synopsis: Even a press conference with the director after the showing of Diaro De Invierno at the San Sebastian Film Festival failed to give any insight to this confusing avant garde feature. A snake charmer (Francisco Algora) is held in a jail cell. A mother leads a double life of saint and harlot. A man Read More

1989
Aire De Un Crimen

Actors: Paco Rabal, Jose Maria Mazo, German Cobos, Maribel Verdú, Maria Jose Moreno

Synopsis: This confusing and meandering mystery concerns a double crime committed in a rural village in 1956. Greedy land speculators, soldiers on leave, a house of prostitution, and a smuggler with a mentally challenged daughter are the focus of this crime drama that lacks suspense and suffers from being Read More

1989
Moon over Parador

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss) is all actor: Self-possessed, obsessive, vulnerable, and an addict for praise, his soul burns with "the craft." Having just finished a grade-Z straight-to-cable crime thriller in the fictional South American country of Parador, he gets the ultimate acting challenge Read More

9/9/88
Esmeralda Bay

1988
Le Grand Secret

1988
Pasodoble

Actors: Fernando Rey, Juan Diego, Antonio Resines, Caroline Grimm, Cassen

Synopsis: In this romantic farce, Macarena is a pretty French girl who has come to Cordoba in southern Spain in search of a man she believes may be her father. She finally tracks him and his clan down in a minor city museum: they have become squatters there during one of the museum curator's brief absences. Read More

1987
Captain James Cook

1987
El Bosque Animado

Actors: Alfredo Landa, Fernando Valverde, Encarna Paso, Miguel Angel Rellan

Synopsis: In this idiomatically Spanish comedy, set in the woodlands of Galicia in the 1920s, a large cast of oddballs and fools somehow manage to carry on with their lives (and deaths). One of these odd ducks is a bandit who cannot quite manage to pull off a robbery, though the travelers he meets are quite Read More

1987
Mi General

Actors: Fernando Rey, Héctor Alterio, José Luis Lopez Vasquez

Synopsis: The generals in this comedy probably got their positions the old-fashioned way: through having good connections (and/or lots of family money) and sufficient seniority. What is certain is that they have no affinity for the study of modern warfare, which is what they have been sent to do here. They Read More

1987
Saving Grace

Actors: Tom Conti, Fernando Rey, Erland Josephson, Giancarlo Giannini, Donald Hewlett

Synopsis: This is an Italian comedy about a runaway, incognito Pope who makes his way to a village for a temporary stay and tries to bring a few good works to fruition while there. After Pope Leo XIV gets locked out of the Vatican garden one day, he opts for taking off on a small escape from official and Read More

5/2/86
Hotel Du Paradis

Actors: Fernando Rey, Fabrice Luchini, Hugues Quester, Marika Rivera

Synopsis: A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carola Regnier), Goldman meets Read More

1986
Star Knight

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Fernando Rey, Maria Lamor, Jose Vivo

Synopsis: A laid-back spoof of knights in shining armor, El Caballero del Dragon is set in a medieval European village, but the knight's armor is actually a spacesuit. Boetius (Klaus Kinski) is a necromancer and alchemist fawning after the near-senile Count of Rue (Jose Vivo). Opposite Boetius is Fray Lupo (Fernando Rey Read More

1986
Commando Mengele

Synopsis: Part of the Nazi-hunter subgenre that emerged in the wake of 1978's The Boys from Brazil, this lurid thriller comes from Italian director Andrea Bianchi and was co-written by exploitation legend Jesús Franco. The film follows a group of Jewish agents bent on exacting revenge on Nazi officers who Read More

1986
Rustlers' Rhapsody

Actors: Tom Berenger, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Andy Griffith, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: An amusing spoof of the good 'ole westerns back in the halcyon days when all the cliches were held up as icons, this parody by Hugh Wilson works best for savvy audiences. Rex O'Herlihan (Tom Berenger) is a singing cowboy with a wardrobe straight out of the Hollywood westerns of the '40s -- he Read More

1985
A.D.

Actors: Anthony Andrews, Colleen Dewhurst, Ava Gardner, David Hedison, John Houseman

Synopsis: Filmed in Tunisia on a budget of 30 million dollars, the five-part, 12-hour miniseries A.D. was the final installment in a historical trilogy which included Moses the Lawgiver and Jesus of Nazareth. Covering the years 30 to 69 A.D., the teleplay, co-written by Anthony Burgess, chronicled the Read More

1985
The Hit

Actors: John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Terence Stamp, Bill Hunter

Synopsis: In this offbeat crime film, Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) an English mobster turned informant, has been given a new identity and has been living in a small, isolated village in Spain for 10 years. Unfortunately for Parker, the men he has betrayed have ascertained his whereabouts and send Braddock (John Hurt Read More

1984
Una Strana Passione

Actors: Fernando Rey, Brigitte Fossey, Saverio Marconi, Agostina Belli

Synopsis: Based on Heinrich Von Kleist's novel, "The Foundling," Strana Passione twists and turns through the death of one son, adoption of another, and the latter's ultimately tragic relationship with his adoptive parents. While out in his carriage with his young son, Piachi (Fernando Rey) picks up Nicolò Read More

1984
Padre Nuestro

Actors: Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal, Victoria Abril, Emma Penella, Amelia de la Torre

Synopsis: Fernando Rey plays a Spanish cardinal who returns to his home town thirty years after leaving for Rome. Rey knew that he'd left an illegitimate daughter behind, but was unaware that he also has a granddaughter (Victoria Abril). The girl is embroiled in an affair with Rey's own brother (Francisco Rabal Read More

1984
Un Amour Interdit

Actors: Fernando Rey, Brigitte Fossey, Saverio Marconi, Agostina Belli

1984
Black Arrow

Actors: Oliver Reed, Fernando Rey, Benedict Taylor, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Produced for cable TV by The Disney Channel, The Black Arrow is based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure tale. Stephen Chase plays the title character, a dogooding swashbuckler who tries to avenge his father's murder during the War of the Roses. Though Chase carries the bulk of the Read More

1984
Bearn o la Sala de las Muñecas

Actors: Fernando Rey, Ángela Molina, Amparo Soler Leal, Imanol Arias

Synopsis: In this inconclusive, confusing story about an aristocratic Majorcan family with connections to the Pope and much more darkly, to the secrets of a Masonic Order kept in a doll's room, the patriarch of the family (Fernando Rey) and his wife and cousin come to no good end for reasons that are never Read More

1983
Cercasi Gesù

Actors: Beppe Grillo, Maria Schneider, Fernando Rey, Meme Perlini

Synopsis: Giovanni (Beppe Grillo) is a mysterious hitchhiker of unknown origins, oddly out of place in the modern world since he is quite humble in his attitude, equally compassionate to everyone, and unselfish. Giovanni is given a lift by a priest (Fernando Rey) who looks like he deals cards under the Read More

3/3/82
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull

1982
La Straniera

Actors: Fernando Rey, Teresa Madruga, Carole Courtois

Synopsis: Andre (Fernando Rey) has a charming house by the sea in Portugal, a home which contains all his childhood memories and attachments. Above all else this imminent divorce is bringing back memories of his mother and her untimely death, but also the death of his father in the Spanish Civil War. He Read More

1982
Monsignor

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller, Joe Cortese

Synopsis: An ambitious priest discovers that honoring the Ten Commandments isn't as easy as he imagined in this drama. Father John Flaherty (Christopher Reeve) is a Catholic priest who was ordained during World War II, and soon found himself forced to fight enemy forces while serving as a chaplain in the Read More

1982
Insanity

Synopsis: Back in 1965, bank clerk Terence Stamp's obsession with art student Samantha Eggar in The Collector culminated with her kidnapping. In Insanity, Stamp is once more unduly fascinated with a pretty young thing. This time, Stamp plays a film director, and the object of his desire is an actress Read More

1982
Miele di Donna

Synopsis: Armed with a pistol, a writer (Catherine Spaak) breaks into the home of a successful publisher (Fernando Rey) to convince him to publish her erotic manuscript. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

5/25/81
La Vera Storia Della Signora Delle Camelie

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Gian Maria Volontè, Bruno Ganz, Fernando Rey, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: In the original story of Camille by Alexandre Dumas, Jr. La Dame aux Camelias, a beautiful Parisian courtesan, Marguerite Gautier, (called "Camille" because of her love for camelias) is supported by a series of aristocratic lovers, but does not fall in love until she meets Armand Duval. Armand's Read More

1981
Tragala, Perro

Actors: Amparo Muñoz, Fernando Rey, Lola Gaos, Emiliano Redondo

Synopsis: The story of Sister Patrocinio, the "Nun of the Wounds" is told in a series of flashbacks to life in Madrid in the 1830s, when she lived. The government had just changed over into the more liberal hands of Mendizabal, and Sister Patrocinio was so worried about the broad-minded attitudes of the Read More

1981
Cabo Blanco

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey, Simon MacCorkindale

Synopsis: In this strange, unsatisfying remake of Casablanca, directed by J. Lee Thompson, a bar owner helps a woman find a missing fortune. Right after the end of WWII, Giff Hoyt (Charles Bronson) owns a bar in Peru into which Marie Allesandri (Dominique Sanda) enters one day, in search of her lover and Read More

1981
El Crimen De Cuenca

Actors: Amparo Soler Leal, Héctor Alterio, Fernando Rey, Jose Manuel Cervino

Synopsis: In a gross miscarriage of justice, based on an actual event, two men are falsely accused and convicted of the murder of a missing shepherd from a small Spanish village. A despotic district court judge and a right-wing congressman orchestrate the trial. The two men are subjected to brutal torture Read More

1980
L'Ingorgo

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou

Synopsis: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1/12/79
Quintet

Actors: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: Perhaps the least seen but most talked about film of Robert Altman's career, Quintet is a somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age. A man named Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant wife Vivia (Brigitte Fossey) are wandering Read More

1979
Memorias De Leticia Valle

Actors: Ramiro Oliveros, Jeannine Mestre, Fernando Rey, Héctor Alterio, Emma Suarez

Synopsis: In this melodrama, Leticia is an upper-class girl who falls in love with an unhappily married tutor, despite the fact that the tutor's wife is her piano teacher. Leticia's father somehow finds out about the attachment between the two and confronts the tutor, who then commits suicide. ~ Clarke Read More

1979
Dulce Piel de Mujer

1978
The Last Romantic Lover

Synopsis: She (Dayle Haddon) is the editor of a womens' magazine and has decided to run a contest to find the most attractive man living within the magazine's reading area. He (Gerard Tybalt) is a circus lion-tamer, temporarily at leisure because of the death of his lion. He has been urged to enter the Read More

1978
Le Dernier Amant Romantique

Actors: Gerard Tybat, Dayle Haddon, Fernando Rey, Thierry Lhermitte

1978
Uppdraget

Actors: Thomas Hellberg, Christopher Plummer, Carolyn Seymour, Fernando Rey, Per Oscarsson

Synopsis: Christopher Plummer stars in The Assignment as a police captain. The setting is an un-named Latin American country, where a high-ranking official is murdered. The incident threatens to tear apart not only the country but its neighboring republics. A calm, selfless diplomat (Thomas Heilberg) is Read More

1978
Jesus of Nazareth

Actors: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Plummer, Anne Bancroft, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a religious icon, his expensive made-for-TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth fell victim to protestors long before its April 3, 1977, debut. Despite the pullout of several sponsors Read More

1977
Elisa, Vida Mia

Synopsis: On the heels of his award-winning Cria cuevos (Raise Ravens), Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura dashed off the muted psychological drama Elisa, My Love. Geraldine Chaplin stars as Elisa, who after an absence of 20 years is reunited with her father, Fernando Rey (in a superb performance, which won him Read More

1977
El Segundo Poder

Actors: Jon Finch, Juliette Mills, Fernando Rey, Verónica Forqué, Jose Maria Prada

Synopsis: A young inquisitor is assigned to investigate the near-fatal accident of the Spanish Inquisitor General at a royal palace. Suspicion swifly falls on a washerwoman and her mother, and despite the young man's best efforts (for he has fallen in love with the mother), he cannot save them. ~ Clarke Read More

1977
Night Fiend

Synopsis: The Spanish Night Fiend is a showcase for the talents of Fernando Rey. By day, Rey is a highly respected judge. By night, he's the most brutal of serial killers. When does the poor man sleep? And how did Fernando Rey find time to churn out Night Fiend the same year that he was busy with Elissa My Love Read More

1977
That Obscure Object of Desire

Actors: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber

Synopsis: Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from the great Luis Buñuel. Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly details the romantic perils of Mathieu (Buñuel favorite Fernando Rey), a Read More

1977
Le Désert des Tartares

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked the fort years ago. One young soldier (Jacques Perrin), however, can't wait for the boredom to end and the fighting to begin. Ennio Morricone provided the musical score. Read More

10/29/76
A Matter of Time

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Spiros Andros, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Singer and actress Liza Minnelli teamed up with her father, legendary director Vincente Minnelli, to make this evocative drama. Nina (Liza Minnelli) is a popular film star who, in the midst of a press conference, finds herself remembering her life before her big break, when she worked as a Read More

9/23/76
Cadaveri Eccellenti

Actors: Lino Ventura, Alain Cuny, Paolo Bonacelli, Marcel Bozzuffi, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Francesco Rosi utilizes the breathtakingly beautiful Italian landscape in an unspecified Italian city to hatch this mystery film involving murder and corruption in high places. As the film begins, a well-known prosecutor is killed. The murder turns out to be the first in a series of murders -- and Read More

2/12/76
Voyage of the Damned

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

1976
Seven Beauties

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmuller directs the black comedy Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties). During WWII, Pasqualino Frafuso (Giancarlo Giannini) ends up lost in a dense forest along with fellow army deserter Francesco (Piero De Orio). After they witness a mass execution by German Read More

12/20/75
Corruzione Al Palazzo Di Giustizia

Actors: Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, Martin Balsam, Gabriele Ferzetti, Umberto Orsini

Synopsis: The shocking premise of this film -- that many magistrates in the Italian system of justice are on the take from corporations, politician, and gangsters -- was soon overshadowed by real-life revelations of corruption in high places. One high point in this political melodrama is the humanity with Read More

1/16/75
The French Connection II

Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: This sequel to the Oscar-winning The French Connection picks up almost exactly where the earlier film leaves off. Still on the trail of drug kingpin Frog One (Fernando Rey), narcotics officer "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) leaves his Manhattan stomping grounds and heads for Marseilles. There Read More

1975
Existio Otra Humanidad?

1975
The Woman with Red Boots

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Jacques Weber, Laura Betti

Synopsis: Perrot (Fernando Rey) is a rich man. He is also a meddling, busybody art-hating wacko. It may be that he is a woman-hater as well, for he certainly causes enough trouble for the well-regarded writer, Françoise (Catherine Deneuve). Fortunately, she has resources of calmness and clairvoyance which Read More

12/12/74
Fatti Di Gente Perbene

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Catherine Deneuve, Marcel Bozzuffi, Corrado Pani

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this political thriller/drama explores the ordeal of Linda Murri (Catherine Deneuve), a 19th-century upper-class Italian woman who was caught in an unhappy marriage and who broke the code of behavior for aristocrats by taking a lower-class lover. After her husband was Read More

9/28/74
Dites-le Avec Des Fleurs

Actors: Delphine Seyrig, John Moulder-Brown, Fernando Rey, Rocio Dúrcal

Synopsis: In this bizarre psychological thriller, a handsome young boy (John Mouder-Brown), who is marred by a strange birthmark on his face, tells a disturbing tale about how his family died. The family had been living for some time in a villa which was overgrown with flowering vines. Some of the vines Read More

1974
Zanna Bianca

Actors: Franco Nero,