Linda CristalFilmography

Born:: February 25, 1934 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Argentinian actress Linda Cristal made her first American film in 1956. Typecast by virtue of her accent and her exotic Latino features, Linda could usually be found in westerns, notably Comanche (1956), The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958), The Alamo (1960) and Two Rode Together (1961). She also...Read More

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Condominium

Actors: Pamela Hensley, Jack Jones, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: Condominium is a two-part, four-hour TV adaptation of the novel by John D. McDonald. The setting is a hastily constructed Florida high-rise, assembled at the least possible cost by its greedy owners. An oncoming hurricane threatens to topple the structure and its residents into the ocean. Various Read More

1980
Love and the Midnight Auto Supply

Actors: Michael Parks, Linda Cristal, Scott Jacoby, Bill Adler, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their racket. The film is also known as Love and the Midnight Auto Supply. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell

Synopsis: Everybody knows that Howard Hughes ordered most of his 1930 aviation epic Hell's Angels refilmed to accommodate his latest discovery, platinum blonde Jean Harlow. Everybody also knows that Hughes and Harlow had an affair. These "givens"are used as springboard for exploitation filmmaker Larry Read More

1977
The Dead Don't Die

Actors: Reggie Nalder, Ray Milland

Synopsis: This interesting made-for-TV period gangster-horror piece -- written by Psycho author Robert Bloch -- stars George Hamilton as a military man in 1930s Chicago who pounds the pavement in search of answers after his brother's wrongful execution. His investigations plunge him into a dark world even Read More

1975
Mr. Majestyk

Actors: Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: Elmore Leonard's script for Mr. Majestyk was, like his novel, supposed to have concentrated on the plight of Chicano migrant workers; but what emerged on screen was extensively reshaped into a standard Charles Bronson vehicle. Battle-weary Vietnam veteran Vince Majestyk (Bronson) settles down in Read More

1974
Bonanza: Warbonnet

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Chief Dan George, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Native American actor Chief Dan George, who had catapulted to stardom in the 1971 theatrical feature Little Big Man, appears in this Bonanza episode as Red Cloud, a dying Indian chieftan. Before being gathered to his fathers, Red Cloud wants to reclaim a precious warbonnet lost in battle, which Read More

1971
Panic in the City

Actors: Howard Duff, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: A murder investigation uncovers a plot that could destroy the world as we know it in this thriller. When a scientist doing research on nuclear weapons is murdered during a hospital stay, federal investigator Dave Pomeroy (Howard Duff) is called in to find out who killed him and why. With the help Read More

1968
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The City Beneath the Sea

Synopsis: The Seaview is assigned a mission in the Aegian Sea, to investigate a series of research ship disasters, and an attempt to destroy the sub. Captain Crane (David Hedison) goes undercover in a small seaside village and finds that someone is prepared to kill anyone who asks (or answers) too many Read More

1964
The Pharaoh's Woman

Actors: John Drew Barrymore, Linda Cristal, Armando Francioli, Pierre Brice

Synopsis: A routine Italian costume drama released via Universal Studios, this story is set in Egypt during the usual ancient period. The clichéd tale stars Linda Cristal as Akis, a seductive woman whose attractions are more than enough to qualify her as a source of romantic rivalry. She is sought after by Read More

1961
Two Rode Together

Actors: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal, Andy Devine

Synopsis: One of director John Ford's least characteristic films, it derives from the latter part of his career, when the director's belief in the myth of the West had faded, and he was beset by failing health and personal problems. In the cynicism of its humor, the director seems be to taking a page from Read More

1961
The Alamo

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne

Synopsis: John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and William Travis (Laurence Harvey) and 184 hardy Americans and Texicans, defends the Alamo mission against the troops of Mexican general Santa Ana. Read More

1960
Slave Girls of Sheba

1960
Le Legioni di Cleopatra

Actors: Linda Cristal, Georges Marchal, Ettore Manni

Synopsis: Released not long before a much more spectacular Cleopatra came along to make Elizabeth Taylor even more famous, this routine drama by Vittorio Cottafavi, a director who favors historical epics, is no competition. The prelude to Cleopatra's demise is the main focus of attention, but in this drama Read More

11/27/59
Los Seite Pecados

Actors: Lilia del Valle, Maria Aguilar, Linda Cristal, Emilia Guiu

1959
Cry Tough

Actors: John Saxon, Linda Cristal, Joseph Calleia, Arthur Batanides

Synopsis: This was the first film directed by Paul Stanley, and its theme of second-generation Puerto Ricans living in New York's Spanish Harlem would be picked up again in 1961's smash success, West Side Story. Miguel Estrada (John Saxon) was a member of a local gang before he went to prison for a year Read More

1959
The Perfect Furlough

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Linda Cristal, Keenan Wynn, Elaine Stritch

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle weary men and convinces the brass to let her try it on selected men stationed at her base. According to her plan, selected men would be given three weeks, tailor made to fit Read More

1958
The Fiend Who Walked the West

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Robert Evans, Dolores Michaels, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally

Synopsis: This off-beat western is a freely-adapted remake of the violent film noir Kiss of Death. The story centers on a naive thief, Dan Hardy, who is captured after a bank robbery and placed in a jail cell alongside the maniacal, vicious Felix Griffin. O'Brian gets himself into deep trouble when he tells Read More

1958
The Last of the Fast Guns

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Gilbert Roland, Linda Cristal, Eduard Franz, Lorne Greene

Synopsis: When a millionaire discovers that he is going to lose half of his business if his missing brother isn't found to keep it out of the ruthless hands that want it, he sends the "last of the fast guns" out in search of him. Finding him won't be the hard thing for our gunfighter, however. Keeping him Read More

1958
Comanche

Actors: Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Linda Cristal, Lowell Gilmore, Nestor Paiva

Synopsis: Comanche is one of several 1950s westerns sympathetic to the Indian point of view. Dana Andrews stars as a frontier scout who hopes to shield his Native American friends from the genocidal machinations of bigoted Cavalry officer John Litel. Comanche chief Kent Smith likewise wants to keep the Read More

1956
Con el Diablo en el Cuerpo

Synopsis: Con el Diablo en el Cuerpo stars Luis Aguilar as Lucio, a man who is all set to marry the woman of his dreams when some shady characters from her past appear. These old acquaintances make life extremely difficult for the couple. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

1954
Genio Y Figura

Synopsis: A trio of rural Mexicans make their way to the big city, only to discover just how wild the nightlife can truly get in this classic comedy starring Luis Aguilar and Antonio Badu. Ester is pregnant. After discovering a potential complication, Ester's doctor has advised her to visit a doctor in Read More

1953
El Lunar de la Familia

Actors: Luis Aguilar, Antonio Badú, Linda Cristal, Esther Fernandez, Sara Garcia, José Moreno, Arturo Soto Rangel, Quintin Bulnes, Sara Montes

Synopsis: Fernando Mendez's 1953 Spanish-language melodrama El Lunar de la Familia unfurls against the backdrop of a deceptively innocent-sounding family reunion. Two freewheeling, party-happy young men, Luis and his buddy Antonio, catch the train in to San Miguel, on a visit to Luis's grandmother, Doña Read More

1953