Luis Prendes

Luis Prendes

Born: August 22, 1913
Died: October 27, 1998
in Melilla, España
Luis Prendes was born on August 22, 1913 in Melilla, Spain. He was an actor, known for Estudio 1 (1965), King of Kings (1961) and Fantasía (1966). He was previously married to María José. He died on October 27, 1998 in Madrid, Spain.

Movies for Luis Prendes...

Atilano, presidente
Title: Atilano, presidente
Character: Don Aníbal
Released: September 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Atilano Bermejo is a petty crook who gets involved in the scam of his life: to be Prime Minister. His charisma and lack of social concern make him an ideal political candidate for a group of bankers looking for a good public image behind which to hide and disguise their ambitions.
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Loco veneno
Title: Loco veneno
Character: Sr. Sadurni
Released: May 11, 1989
Type: Movie
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La gran fiesta
Title: La gran fiesta
Character: Don Manuel González
Released: December 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The guests drink, seduce and gossip, but some also plot against each other.
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Alien Predators
Title: Alien Predators
Character: Dr. W. Tracer, NASA
Released: August 5, 1986
Type: Movie
Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien menace.
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Memorias del general Escobar
Title: Memorias del general Escobar
Character: General Aranguren
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: Movie
After the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Antonio Escobar Huerta stoically awaits his execution, accused of military treason and sentenced to death for having sworn allegiance to the Republic. Despite being a man of deep religious convictions, Antonio Escobar decided to make an oath honoring the legally constituted government of the Second Spanish Republic against the military uprising led by Francisco Franco and supported by the Catholic Church. While waiting for his execution in prison, he recalls the beginning of the Civil War, the years of battles during which he ascended to the rank of General, and his own decisions, of which he has no regrets. With a clear conscience, Escobar waits his own execution with the calm of those who know they have done their duty. "If my life and that of all who have fallen serves to avoid this from happening again, our blood will not have been in vain" - Antonio Escobar Huerta.
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Tuareg: Desert Warrior
Title: Tuareg: Desert Warrior
Character: Abdul El Kabir
Released: March 12, 1984
Type: Movie
In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other - a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.
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Jaguar Lives!
Title: Jaguar Lives!
Character: Habish
Released: August 9, 1979
Type: Movie
The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
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China 9, Liberty 37
Title: China 9, Liberty 37
Character: Williams
Released: August 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
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Curse of the Black Cat
Title: Curse of the Black Cat
Character: Doctor
Released: May 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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The Kidnapping
Title: The Kidnapping
Character: Óscar
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Inspired by the famous Patty Hearst case, this thriller centers around a young woman who's kidnapped and brainwashed by a crime ring and ends up succumbing to Stockholm Syndrome.
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Hay que matar a B.
Title: Hay que matar a B.
Character: Commisary
Released: June 14, 1975
Type: Movie
In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.
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Breakout
Title: Breakout
Released: May 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
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Devil's Exorcist
Title: Devil's Exorcist
Character: Mr. Roberts
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Teresita, the only daughter to a wealthy couple, begins to be troubled by loud sounds and visions of a tall man in black walking towards her menacingly. Soon she becomes plagued by strange physical symptoms, visions of arms extending from the walls to grab at her...and sometimes she gets violent. A priest is called in to try and wrench the devil from her body.
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Chino
Title: Chino
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
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Las brujas de Salem
Title: Las brujas de Salem
Character: Juez Danforth
Released: May 11, 1973
Type: Movie
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Doce hombres sin piedad
Title: Doce hombres sin piedad
Character: Juror #4
Released: March 16, 1973
Type: Movie
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
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White Skin Market
Title: White Skin Market
Character: Inspector Basilio Lérida
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A young police officer fresh out of the academy, sees casually as a man is beaten and forcibly put into a car in the car park at Barajas airport. The rookie cop tracks them down and discovers a band dedicated to trafficking in women in Spain.
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Dr. Coppelius
Title: Dr. Coppelius
Character: The Mayor
Released: December 25, 1968
Type: Movie
Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Mysterious House of Dr. C.
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White Comanche
Title: White Comanche
Character: Grimes
Released: June 21, 1968
Type: Movie
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.
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A Man to Kill
Title: A Man to Kill
Character: Julius
Released: November 10, 1967
Type: Movie
Barcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has become the target of an antifascist death squad though. Indeed their leader, Julius, whose brother was killed by Schmidt, a merciless S.S., believes, without being absolutely certain, that Fromm and Schmidt are the same man. The team, whose other members are Georges, the son of a deportee liquidated by Schmidt craving for action, Raphaël, a mercenary type, Nils, the photographer and Romain, watch Fromm's every move until Julius, convinced at last that the quiet German is their man, gives the green light for the operation. They manage to lure the former Nazi to an old house but Schmidt/Fromm won't let himself be captured so easily...
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Joe Navidad
Title: Joe Navidad
Character: Judge George Perkins
Released: July 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In a small western town in Arizona called Jaspen, a boy is born on Christmas Day. Joseph "Joe" Novak is born in a makeshift shelter, but his mother, Marika Novak dies during childbirth. Because of the day he was born, the boy will be nicknamed Christmas Joe. Joe's father will never forgive him for the death of his wife, which will lead Joe toward a rebellious attitude. He will become a troubled teenager, and will end up learning how to shoot. Joe will also reject his father's pacific attitude.
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The Fickle Finger of Fate
Title: The Fickle Finger of Fate
Character: Winkle
Released: June 25, 1967
Type: Movie
A U.S. engineer (Tab Hunter) in Spain hunts thieves of two candlesticks, one of which is found in his suitcase.
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The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid
Title: The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid
Character: John Tunstill
Released: March 9, 1967
Type: Movie
This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
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The Tall Women
Title: The Tall Women
Character: Pope
Released: September 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.
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Django Does Not Forgive
Title: Django Does Not Forgive
Character: Captain Dickinson
Released: March 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A halfbreed seeks revenge for the death of his sister, who kills herself after being raped by an officer of the Canadian Mounted Police. He gets involved in the historical revolt of halfbreeds and Indians led by Louis Riel in 1885 against the Canadian government.
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Title: Tales to Keep You Awake
Character: Dr. Roberto Flaswell
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Tales to Keep You Awake
Character: Alejandro
Released: February 4, 1966
Type: TV
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Fantasía... 3
Title: Fantasía... 3
Character: Mago de Oz (segment "El mago de Oz")
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
The film is an adaptation of three fairy tales classics of children literature. "The Maiden of the Sea" tells the story of Coraline, a mermaid who wants to be human afte she falls in love with a Sailor Prince. "The 3 hairs of the Devil" tells the story of Tomasin, a young man of humble background, which a seer had a presentiment that he would marry the daughter of the king, who must perform a series of tests to avoid death, and marriage the princess is accepted by the king. "The Wizard of Oz" tells the story of Sylvia, a girl who get lost in the woods with her dog Toto, and along with her friends The Scarecrow, The Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, have been snatched the brain, heart and courage, respectively. They go the Emerald City to request help from the Wizard of Oz adapting three children’s stories: , The three hairs from the devil and The Wizard of Oz.
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Julio César
Title: Julio César
Character: Bruto
Released: November 24, 1965
Type: Movie
After Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Farsalia, Julius Caesar becomes the beacon of the Roman Republic and the master of its destiny; but many patricians want to avoid the birth of a tyranny and plot to assassinate him…
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Loca juventud
Title: Loca juventud
Character: le père de Johnny
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Johnny Durán, who is seventeen years old and son of a multimillionaire, arrives to Madrid for hollidays. In the capital he become friend of a group of boys and girls with whom he shares great moments; but soon he realice that they are a clan of thugs and decides to distance themselves. He also meets Paula, daugther of an italian family that is travelling, and they both feel atracted by each other. Since then, started happening a serie of unexpected events which the guy will have to solve with tenacity and responsibility.
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La hora incógnita
Title: La hora incógnita
Character: Policia
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
In a small Spanish town, is expected to explode a nuclear bomb to ten at night. All neighbors leave, except for thirteen people who are gathered in the church and, with the help of the pastor, will find that there is still a possibility of salvation.
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Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
Title: Pyro... The Thing Without a Face
Character: Police Inspector
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.
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Carta a una mujer
Title: Carta a una mujer
Character: Augusto
Released: June 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Flora and Carlos have a marriage of convenience. Realizing that she did not love him, Carlos joined the Blue Division and soon disappeared in Russia. Flora lives with a famous conductor, but they have not married because the death of Carlos has not been formally communicated. But one day, a mysterious character who turns out to be an old enemy of his husband, sends Flora a message telling that her husband will return.
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The Dead Don't Forgive
Title: The Dead Don't Forgive
Character: Pablo Laínez
Released: April 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A parapsychology student investigates his father's death.
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Plaza de Oriente
Title: Plaza de Oriente
Character: Gabriel Ardanaz
Released: February 18, 1963
Type: Movie
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Kill and Be Killed
Title: Kill and Be Killed
Character: Inspector
Released: May 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.
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Todos eran culpables
Title: Todos eran culpables
Character: Juez
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of rebellious youth find themselves in hot water when a girl is killed while they are partying
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King of Kings
Title: King of Kings
Character: Good Thief / Roman Soldier
Released: October 11, 1961
Type: Movie
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
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Ursus
Title: Ursus
Character: Setas
Released: September 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to display much courage and strength as he and the blind girl Doreide embark upon a quest to retrieve Attea.
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The Prince in Chains
Title: The Prince in Chains
Character: Astolfo
Released: December 20, 1960
Type: Movie
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El precio de la sangre
Title: El precio de la sangre
Released: June 17, 1960
Type: Movie
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Back to the Door
Title: Back to the Door
Character: Enrique Simón
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
One of the staff girls at The Golden Mousetrap, a city nightclub, has been stabbed and is barely alive; a doctor is examining her in a dressing room. Inspector Simón leads the investigation supported by the night shift inspector Arévalo. The club management asks that nobody leave the place, since everyone there must cooperate with the police and being interrogated.
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Vargas Inn
Title: Vargas Inn
Character: Comandante De Moulin
Released: August 24, 1959
Type: Movie
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Luces de candilejas
Title: Luces de candilejas
Released: September 11, 1958
Type: Movie
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Dos basuras
Title: Dos basuras
Released: May 2, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Devil Plays the Flute
Title: The Devil Plays the Flute
Character: Bernaldino
Released: May 14, 1954
Type: Movie
When the pieces of a singular figure are unearthed and then joined together, a devil of the lowest category breaks into a small Mediterranean village. From that moment on, the demon will enter the life of a painter named Bernardino, in the affairs of a "modern" marriage, in the existence of a frightened gardener and, finally, in the day-to-day life of the Great Momo.
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The Seventh Page
Title: The Seventh Page
Character: Manolo
Released: October 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.
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Black Sky
Title: Black Sky
Character: Ricardo Fortuny
Released: July 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
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Reckless
Title: Reckless
Character: Fernando
Released: February 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Javier Mendoza a Catholic missionary established in Alaska, recalls, when about to die, the years of his youth and his relationship with his family and friends.
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El duende y el rey
Title: El duende y el rey
Released: May 29, 1950
Type: Movie
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Date With My Old Love
Title: Date With My Old Love
Released: January 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The struggles of a newly married couple to achieve marital and economic stability.
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Cuatro mujeres
Title: Cuatro mujeres
Character: Enamorado de Elena
Released: December 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Chance brings four men together at a coffee table during a poker game. The entrance of a woman brings back memories to all of them.
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Un ladrón de guante blanco
Title: Un ladrón de guante blanco
Released: January 28, 1946
Type: Movie
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Una chica de opereta
Title: Una chica de opereta
Character: Armando d'Olbés
Released: January 17, 1944
Type: Movie
A poor composer sells his songs to a music publisher who attributes them to his son, who sells them to a famous singer. Seeking the son, the musician's daughter will unexpectedly find a job as secretary to the singer, disguised as an unattractive and authoritative woman who effectively controls his careless lifestyle.
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Mi enemigo y yo
Title: Mi enemigo y yo
Character: Mauricio
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Two sisters living with their aunt in a mountain village are fond of a writer whom they have the chance to meet, both of them falling in love with him. When he proposes to one sister, not wanting to hurt the other she is ready to renounce.
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Mi adorable secretaria
Title: Mi adorable secretaria
Character: Miguel
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
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Boda accidentada
Title: Boda accidentada
Character: Nico
Released: March 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Kitty, niece of a Marchioness, is betrothed to Don Candido, a wealthy manufacturer of preserves. Nico, an old friend of Candide who is completely ruined, arrives to the fashion hotel in which both are. Nico falls in love with Kitty, but, unlike the other men who court her, treats her with indifference. The girl, wounded in his pride, it is interested to Nico. Just before the wedding, Don Candido leaves claimed by its industrial businesses, and instructs his friend to take care of his bride. Nico and Kitty end up falling in love. Don Candido back the same day fixed for the wedding.
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Autumn Roses
Title: Autumn Roses
Character: Pepe
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Isabel and Gonzalo, a marriage of high society, see how their happiness is endangered due to the frequent love affairs of the husband, that will eventually lead them to interact with a pair of cynical thieves dedicated to blackmail Isabel and to defraud Gonzalo in his business
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La culpa del otro
Title: La culpa del otro
Character: Juan Carlos
Released: November 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Rafael works as a valet of the Marquis de la Peña. Accused of having committed a serious offense during his service, it is fired, although all is due to the machinations of the administrator. Shortly after an incident in which the Marquis is impaired occurs. Rafael comes to his defense, but will be charged again and imprisoned his wife Carolina. Their daughter will be given up for adoption.
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Una conquista difícil
Title: Una conquista difícil
Released: December 1, 1941
Type: Movie
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Alma de Dios
Title: Alma de Dios
Character: Agustín
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie