Roger Cudney
Roger Cudney (June 22, 1936 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor, singer, dubbing director, radio and television announcer.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Cudney was known for starring in numerous Mexican films and telenovelas[3] in which he often portrayed authoritarian characters or other villains.[4][5] In 2003, The Wall Street Journal described his career playing 'unpopular gringos':
MEXICO CITY -- Roger Cudney, a smallish, 66-year-old with a receding hairline and a gleaming smile, may be the most notorious gringo in Mexico. Some Mexicans know him as a plunderer of ancient archaeological treasures. Others remember him as the union-busting manager of a sweatshop. Still others recognize Mr. Cudney as a pathologically nasty Texas ranger or a meddling diplomat.
Mr. Cudney has been all of these things and more in a 30-year acting career in Mexican TV and movies. The Ohio-born Mr. Cudney came to Mexico in the 1960s to play the lead in the musical Show Boat but he soon found a different dramatic calling. "Roger Cudney is the epitome of the bad gringo, a blending of all the worst American stereotypes," says David Wilt, who compiled the Biographical Dictionary of Mexican Film Performers.
On the [2001] Mexican soap opera, Amigas y rivales (Friends and Rivals), Mr. Cudney was a racist South Texas rancher who caught a couple of illegal Mexican immigrants trespassing on his property, shortly after the World Trade Center attack. "Git off of my land," the actor snarled, waving a shotgun. Then, in his distinctively accented Spanish, he ad-libbed: "Thousands of Americans have just died in New York. They shouldn't let anyone enter my country anymore."[5]
Cudney also had parts in mainstream Hollywood films,[1] including a co-starring role opposite Charles Bronson in The Evil That Men Do, Total Recall, Rambo: First Blood Part II, the James Bond film Licence to Kill, Julia, Perdita Durango and Original Sin.[2] He portrayed the part of the United States Ambassador to Mexico in La Dictadura Perfecta.
Cudney was married,[4] with three sons and one daughter.
He died on July 5, 2021, of a heart attack following a car accident.[3][4][6]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Eye for an Eye | Original title: El sabor de la venganza | |
| 1972 | Ni solteros, ni casados | Spanish-language comedy | |
| 1972 | The Revengers | Sheriff | Uncredited |
| 1972 | Slaughter | Gio | blaxploitation film starring Jim Brown |
| 1975 | Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary | Howard Miller | |
| 1975 | Lucky Lady | Hotel clerk | |
| 1976 | Swashbuckler | Guard | Uncredited |
| 1976 | El karateca azteca | Calvin | Spanish-language comedy |
| 1977 | Mina, Wind of Freedom | Colonel Young | Original title: "Mina, viento de libertad"; biography of Martín Javier Mina y Larrea |
| 1977 | Los hermanos del viento | Conductor | |
| 1978 | Roots of Blood | Factory Foreman | Original title: "Raíces de sangre" |
| 1978 | The Recourse to the Method | Army captain | Original title: "El recurso del método" |
| 1978 | Cananea | Ted Nolan | cinematic account of the Cananea strike of 1906 |
| 1978 | The Bees | Blankeley | |
| 1979 | Border Cop | Slaughterhouse foreman | |
| 1980 | Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Capps | |
| 1980 | El hombre sin miedo | Mr. Brown | |
| 1981 | 357 Magnum | Mario Frasca | |
| 1981 | Priest of Love | British biographical film about D. H. Lawrence | |
| 1982 | Red Bells | Soviet Union-Italy-Mexico co-production | |
| 1982 | Amityville II: The Possession | Prosecutor | Uncredited |
| 1982 | Quell and Co. | Ames | Original title: "Showdown at Eagle Gap" |
| 1983 | Triumphs of a Man Called Horse | Durand | |
| 1984 | The Evil That Men Do | Cannell | |
| 1984 | Escuela de placer | ||
| 1984 | El mexicano feo | ||
| 1984 | Toy Soldiers | Mr. Green | |
| 1984 | Hombres de acción | ||
| 1984 | El traficante II | ||
| 1984 | El carro de la muerte | ||
| 1984 | Perros salvajes | Alternate title: "Wild Dogs" | |
| 1985 | The Falcon and the Snowman | FBI agent | Uncredited |
| 1985 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Chief Radio Operator | Uncredited |
| 1985 | La fuga del rojo | Callahan | |
| 1985 | Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins | Captain Young | |
| 1986 | Miracles | Captain Irvine | |
| 1986 | La venganza del rojo | Callahan | |
| 1986 | Ghost Fever | TV announcer | US-Mexico co-production |
| 1986 | Murieron a la mitad del rio | Mr. Smith | |
| 1987 | A Walk on the Moon | ||
| 1987 | Hot Pursuit | Bartender | |
| 1987 | Ratas de la frontera | ||
| 1988 | Con el odio en la piel | ||
| 1988 | Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell | Inaros | Alternate title: "Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell" |
| 1988 | Con el niño atravesado | Banker | |
| 1988 | Licence to Kill | Wavekrest Captain | 16th film in the James Bond series |
| 1990 | Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back | Hofrax | Direct-to-video |
| 1990 | Total Recall | Agent | 6th highest-grossing film of 1990 |
| 1990 | El fiscal de hierro 2: La venganza de Ramona | ||
| 1990 | Demons of the Desert | Original title: "Los demonios del desierto" | |
| 1992 | Muerte infernal | Dr. Emmanuel Richter | Alternate title: "Hell doll" |
| 1994 | Juana la Cubana | biography of Juana Bacallao | |
| 1994 | Immortal Combat | Stan | Alternate title: "Resort to Kill" |
| 1995 | Una papa sin catsup | ||
| 1996 | The Arrival | JPL Official | |
| 1997 | Perdita Durango | Herbert | |
| 1997 | Henequen | Ranch foreman | depiction of Korean henequen field laborers in Mexico circa 1905 |
| 1999 | Santitos | Scott Haines | |
| 1999 | One Man's Hero | Colonel Harney | Dramatization of John Riley and the Saint Patrick's Battalion: Irish Catholic immigrants who deserted the mostly Protestant U.S. Army to join the mostly Catholic Mexican side during Mexican–American War. |
| 2000 | Baño de sangre | El General | Direct-to-video |
| 2001 | Blind Heat | Bautista | US-Mexico co-production |
| 2001 | Original Sin | Ship's Captain | |
| 2004 | Puerto Vallarta Squeeze | Bill the Bartender | Adaptation of novel by Robert James Waller |
| 2004 | The Pearl | based on novella by John Steinbeck | |
| 2006 | The Champion | Minuteman | Original title: "Los pajarracos" |
| 2006 | Fast Food Nation | Terry | loosely based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name |
| 2007 | Propiedad Ajena | Roger Cassey | |
| 2007 | The Wailer 2 | Professor Tomas McBride | Original title: "La Llorona 2" |
| 2008 | Julia | Frank | US/France/Mexico/Belgium co-production |
| 2011 | La Noche del Pirata | Paddy O'Brien | |
| 2012 | Soul Walker | Donato | |
| 2012 | Z-Baw | Great Chancellor | English version, Voice |
| 2012 | For Greater Glory | US Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg | alternate titles: "Cristiada" and "Outlaws" |
| 2012 | Portion | Art | |
| 2012 | The Fantastic World of Juan Orol | Don Guillermo | |
| 2013 | Instructions Not Included | Abogado de Julie | Original title: "No se aceptan devoluciones" |
| 2014 | Cesar Chavez | Grower | |
| 2014 | The Perfect Dictatorship | Embajador USA | Original title: "La dictadura perfecta" |
| 2014 | Cantinflas | John | film biography of popular Mexican actor/icon Cantinflas |
| 2014 | Happy Times | Dr. Guillermo Murray | Original title: "Tiempos Felices" |
| 2016 | Hysteria | Stephen | |
| 2017 | Diario de un Mirrey | Don Steven Rice | |
| 2018 | Más sabe el Diablo por viejo | Stuart Young | |
| 2019 | Mentada de padre | Williams |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Virginian | Cowboy | Episode: "Flight from Memory" |
| 1975 | McCloud | Drake | Episode: "Lady on the Run" |
| 1975 | Nevada Smith | Perkins | TV Movie |
| 1975 | A Home of Our Own | Oil executive | TV movie biography of Father William Wasson |
| 1977 | The Rhinemann Exchange | party guest | 3-part miniseries |
| 1980 | Mein Freund Winnetou | Episode: "Duels" | |
| 1980 | Secreto de confesión | Burton | 3 episodes |
| 1981 | Computercide | Robbins | TV Movie |
| 1982 | Falcon's Gold | Hathaway | TV Movie |
| 1986 | On Wings of Eagles | General Jerome O'Malley | 2-part miniseries |
| 1986 | Oceans of Fire | Tool pusher | TV Movie |
| 1987 | Auf Achse | Theo Moll | Episode: "Kampfstiere nach Santa Maria" |
| 1987 | Rosa salvaje | Botones en el hotel de Nueva York | 1 episode |
| 1988 | The Aeronauts | Original title: "Les nouveaux chevaliers du ciel" | |
| 1988 | Crime Story | Jenkins | 2 episodes |
| 1988 | The Second Voyage of the Mimi | Harvey Westerman | PBS-broadcast educational series; 12 episodes |
| 1989 | Trying Times | Persival | Episode: "The Hit List" |
| 1991 | Tropical Heat | Ezra | Episode: "Tara, Tara, Tara" |
| 1994 | The Cisco Kid | Alcott | TV Movie |
| 1994 | The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story | Reporter | TV Movie |
| 1997 | La chacala | Professor Von Derek | 5 episodes |
| 1998 | Soñadoras | Doctor | 1 episode |
| 1999 | Acapulco H.E.A.T. | Arthur Cox | Episode: "Code Name: Death of a Friendship" |
| 1999 | Por tu amor | Doctor | 1 episode |
| 2000 | Carita de ángel | Ryan | 1 episode |
| 2000 | Por un beso | Dr. Newman | 1 episode |
| 2001 | Warden of Red Rock | Prisoner | TV Movie |
| 2001 | In the Time of the Butterflies | Dominican Ambassador Manuel de Moya | TV film about lives of the activist Mirabal sisters |
| 2001 | Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real | 1 episode | |
| 2001 | Blameless Love/Sin pecado concebido | Dr. Reyes | 4 episodes |
| 2001 | Amigas y rivales | Hombre con rifle | 1 episode |
| 2002 | Fidel | Ambassador Butler | TV Movie, David Attwood's film about the Cuban revolution and political career of Fidel Castro |
| 2002 | King of Texas | Smithwick | William Shakespeare's King Lear placed in 19th century Republic of Texas |
| 2004 | Rubí | Stephen Howard | 6 episodes |
| 2004 | American Family | Desert Driver | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | Wooden Woman/Mujer de madera | Dr. Wilson | 2 episodes |
| 2005 | La ley del silencio | Meyer | 11 episodes |
| 2006 | La fea más bella | Manager | 1 episode |
| 2006 | Vecinos | Director Canadiense | Episode: "Los Rivers en Canadá: Parte 1" |
| 2007 | Species: The Awakening | Leland | TV Movie |
| 2007-2008 | Palabra de mujer | Doctor Wilkins | 5 episodes |
| 2008-2009 | Mañana es para siempre | U.S. Ambassador | 7 episodes |
| 2009 | Juro Que Te Amo | Empresario | 1 episode |
| 2009 | Hasta que el dinero nos separe | Doctor | 2 episodes |
| 2009 | Los simuladores | Empresario | 3 episodes |
| 2009 | El Pantera | Rich man | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Llena de amor | Airport security guard | 1 episode |
| 2010 | El octavo mandamiento | Doctor | 1 episode |
| 2011 | La fuerza del destino | Mark | 35 episodes |
| 2011 | Double Life/Dos hogares | Mister Daivis | 15 episodes |
| 2011 | El encanto del águila | Paul Von Hintze | 1 episode |
| 2011 | La que no podía amar | Vaquero texano | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | Por ella soy Eva | Mr. Keaton | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | Un refugio para el amor | 3 episodes | |
| 2010-2012 | Capadocia | James Medina | 14 episodes |
| 2014 | Camelia la Texana | Dr. Fragger | 4 episodes |
| 2015 | Hasta el fin del mundo | Mike Stone (Mister Sam)[7] | 5 episodes |
| 2016 | Sueño de amor | Andrew | 12 episodes |
| 2016 | Por siempre Joan Sebastian | Doctor | miniseries - 1 episode |
| 2016 | 40 y 20 | Arnold | Episode: "Se renta departamento" |
| 2017 | Su nombre era Dolores, la Jenn que yo conocí | Mr. Perkins | Episode: "Sufriendo a solas" |
| 2017 | La doble vida de Estela Carrillo | Jonas Logan | 20 episodes |
| 2017 | Run Coyote Run | Jefe de Migracion | Episode: "Un Lindo Gatito" |
| 2018 | Descontrol | Morrison | Episode: "Call Center" |
| 2018 | Hijas de la luna | 3 episodes | |
| 2019 | El corazón nunca se equivoca | 2 episodes | |
| 2019 | Swipe Night | Stranger | 1 episode |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Constantine, Sandra (12 October 2016). "ACTOR ROGER CUDNEY SPEAKS ABOUT HIS CAREER IN MEXICO". TheNews.mx. Capital Media Mexico. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Roger Cudney and Acting in Mexico". Westerns All Italiana. 4 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ a b "The curse is fulfilled: Actor Roger Cudney dies". MundoHispanico.com. Mundo Hispano Digital Network. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ a b c Warner, Amelia (9 July 2021). "Roger Cudney Died: How Did Actor Die?". We Publish News. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ a b Cordoba, Jose; Moffett, Matt. "Ohio Native Finds Stardom Acting South of the Border : Roger Cudney Makes a Career in Mexican Film By Playing Bad Guys From North of the Border". wsj.com. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 27 January 2003.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Sebastian del Amo [@El_Sx] (July 8, 2021). "Querido Roger Cudney, me acabo de enterar de tu partida... Gracias por todo, amigo... Te vamos a extrañar... DEP #RogerCudney" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Hasta el fin del mundo
External links
[edit]- Roger Cudney at IMDb
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