Canarian actor Charles Quiney, the first Spanish Zorro and Robin Hood, dies [archived newspaper article]

 

He reached national stradom in national and Italian cinema in the 60s

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By Luis Serrano Sanz

May 7, 2007

 

Last Saturday, Carlos Alfonso Quiney Lodos, a Canarian film actor who was known in the trade as Charles Quiney, died in Las Palmas de Grand Canaries. He achieved his greatest fame in Italian cinema and also in Spanish, with Western movies shot in Almería in the 1970s.

His most famous movies were; Ivanna (1970), Plomo sobre Dallas (1970), Rebeldes de Arizona (1970), Robin Hood el arquero invencible (1970), Consigna: matar al commandante en jefe (1969), El Zorro de Monterrey (1969), El Zorro, caballero de la justicia (1968), El Tigre de Kyber (1970) La ultima aventura del Zorro (1969), La muerte busca un hombre (1971), La rebelion de los muertos (1973), El corsario (1972), Botin sangriento (1969), El pistolero de oro (1973), El ultimo tren a Siberia (1973), El contrabandista de la paz (1971), Marco Polo (1972), Tarzan en peligro (1971), Cuatro desertores (1970), No le budques tres pies al gato (1972), a total of thirty films that made up his filmography.

In El Canon de Aguila, by San Bartolome de Trajana, he worked in the film Demasiado sucio para el diablo (1972). Charles Quiney was known among his peers and filmmakers as the first Zorro and the first Spanish Robin Hood, Jose Luis Merino and Jose Maria Zabalza, regular directors of Western movies, regularly counted on his services. He worked with notable actors of the time, coinciding with Javier de Rivera, also from the Canary Islands (the Spaniard who appeared in the most silent films) and Santiago Rivero in La muerte busca un hombre. Before dedicating himself to the world of cinema, he worked in plays, such as La huellla by Anthony Shaffer, at the Perez Galdos, Charles Quiney was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on June 11, 1937. LUIS SERRANO SANZ