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."
Black Sky
1951
White Fang
1973
Rebeldía
1978
Navajo Joe
1966
That Obscure Object of Desire
1977
Quintet
1979
Seven Beauties
1975
L'Atlantide
1992
Scheherazade
1963
The French Connection
1971
Los cuatro robinsones
1939
Crimen en el entreacto
1954
The Devil Also Cries
1965
Viridiana
1962
Rogelia
1962
El cianuro… ¿solo o con leche?
1994
One Way
1973
El Greco
1966
Air Lashings
1951
Winter Diary
1988
The Immortal Story
1968
Espionage in Lisbon
1965
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
1992
Striptease
1976
Leyenda rota
1940
Sonatas
1959
Flamenco
1952
La hora incógnita
1963
The Night Heaven Fell
1958
The Miracle of Marcelino
1955
Villa Rides
1968
Madregilda
1993
Voyage of the Damned
1976
La vida en un bloc
1956
España insólita
1965
1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992
Looking for Jesus
1982
Return of the Seven
1966
Honey
1981
The Savage Guns
1961