Personal Info
Birth date
1920-01-29 (105 Years)
Day of death
2007-08-30
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Also known as
Jose Luis De Villalonga
José De Villalonga
Jose-Luis Vilallonga
José Luis Vilallonga
José Villalonga
J.L. de Villalonga
José Luis de Villalonga
José Luis de Vilallonga
Biography
José Luis de Vilallonga y Cabeza de Vaca, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, GE (29 January 1920 – 30 August 2007) was a Spanish nobleman, author, socialite and film actor. His peculiar character, described as "a mixture of aristocratic arrogance, self-confidence and unconcern", brought him frequent enmities with other public figures. He was known to be a multifaceted, charming, elegant and playboy-like figure. Description above from the Wikipedia article José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
6.1
Overview:
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.Apostrophes
8.5
Overview:
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.Breakfast at Tiffany's
7.6
Overview:
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.Cléo from 5 to 7
7.683
Overview:
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.Darling
6.7
Overview:
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.Any Number Can Win
7.2
Overview:
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.Tales of Paris
5.1
Overview:
A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.Juliet of the Spirits
7.245
Overview:
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.The Magnificent Cuckold
6.6
Overview:
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.Behold a Pale Horse
5.9
Overview:
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.The Lovers
6.617
Overview:
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.The Burglars
6.963
Overview:
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.Tex and the Lord of the Deep
4.6
Overview:
Based on the adventures of the hero Tex from the comic strip by Bonelli. An interesting spaghetti-western/fantasy movie that blends magic and mythology with six-guns and stagecoaches.Femmes
4.9
Overview:
Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with herFiesta
4.8
Overview:
A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.The Hired Killer
5.4
Overview:
Hit-man Clint Harris has one more job to do before he can retire. The corporation which hires him demands that Harris "erase" an ex-employee who has become a snitch for the police. At first Harris refuses but when his own brother is assassinated he accepts the job.The Good and the Bad
5.571
Overview:
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.National Heritage
7.038
Overview:
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exile, with the purpose of returning to Madrid to actively participate in the social events of the aristocracy and to get closer to the closest circle of the Spanish monarch. The obsession of the old marquis is centered on getting in touch with the most illustrious surnames, to ascend socially and to resume the pomp and courtly life that his family lost a long time ago. To this end, he decides to move into an old palace he owns, located in the center of the capital, but not before overcoming the difficulties posed by his wife, who deeply hates both her husband and her son. To regain control of the palace, the Marquis of Leguineche tries to handicap his wife, arguing an incurable mental illness, and then undertake a reform of the place in order to adapt it to aristocratic life.Trop c'est trop
5.7
Overview:
Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
5.2
Overview:
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.The Long Winter
5.2
Overview:
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.Patricia
3.556
Overview:
A young heiress leads a life of excess and wants to marry a man her rich father despises. When her father suspiciously dies, and someone tries to kill her, she surrounds herself with her cousins, friends and lovers, all possible suspects.Scarab
5.5
Overview:
Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Manz is transformed into a demi-god magician. Thirty years later, Manz has assumed the name Khepera and lives in mysterious castle. Using his magical powers, he is killing heads of government and causing the collapse of major financial institutions. Jack Murphy, an American correspondent, witnesses the pandemonium following the suicide of the Spanish prime minister and notices an attractive nurse, Elena, take a small scarab which has fallen from the prime minister's lapel. Later, he visits an occult shop where the scarab is identified as being associated with the Egyptian god, Khepera. Murphy is captured and Elena — who was tricked into sacrificing her brother when they were children — once more takes up the sacrificial dagger...Acting
1992The Long Winter as Conde de Santbenet
1988La diputada as Federico
1987Sacrée soirée (1 Episode) as Self
1985Tex and the Lord of the Deep as Dr. Warton
1984Poppers as Max
1984Scarab as Presidente frances
1983Femmes as (uncredited)
1982National III as Álvaro
1981Dos y dos, cinco as Juanjo's Father
1981Patricia as Lord James Cook
1981National Heritage as Álvaro
1980Une femme au bout de la nuit as Xavier, the husband
1980Voltati Eugenio as Tristano
1980Speed Cross as Meyer
1976Chi dice donna, dice donna as Louis
1976The Good and the Bad as L'homme du couple dévalisé
1975Trop c'est trop as Le photographe
1975Apostrophes (2 Episodes) as Self
1973The Duchess of Avila as Alphonse van Worden
1973The Angels as Bernard
1972Midi trente (1 Episode) as Self
1971The Burglars as Mr. Tasco
1971Sappho as Maurice
1971Samedi soir (2 Episodes) as Self
1970Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques as Le duc de Ségovie
1970How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? as Mr. Epstein
1968À bout portant (1 Episode) as Self
1967Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre (1 Episode) as Stefan Morlawski
1967The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia as Mario Vérona
1966The Hired Killer as Dr. Goldstein / Frank Secchy
1965A Maiden for the Prince as Francesco De' Medici
1965Juliet of the Spirits as Giorgio's friend
1965Darling as Prince Cesare della Romita
1965The Three Faces as Rodolph (segment "Gli amanti celebri") (uncredited)
1964The Magnificent Cuckold as Presidente
1964Behold a Pale Horse as Horse Dealer
1963Don't Tempt the Devil as Paul Dupré, the late husband
1963Any Number Can Win as Mr. Grimp
1962Law of Men as The priest
1962Cléo from 5 to 7 as José, Cléo's Lover
1962Tales of Paris as Louis (segment "Sophie")
1961Breakfast at Tiffany's as José da Silva Pereira
1961The Nina B. Affair as Kurt
1961Naked Autumn as Prévieux
1961Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Spanish envoy
1961Midnight Meeting as Bob
1960L'Ennemi dans l'ombre as Georges Dandieu
1958The Lovers as Raoul Flores
1956Cinépanorama (1 Episode) as Self
Writing
1995Fiesta ... Novel