Roger Cudney

Acting · Crew

Born June 22, 1936, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Cudney came to Mexico in the 1960s to play the lead in the musical Show Boat and ended up staying. He'd find steady work in both films and telenovelas, most often typecast as authoritarian characters and other "gringo" villains. He also appeared in the occasional Hollywood film. He died on July 5, 2021 of a heart attack following a car accident.

Filmography

• 2025The Containment — Bishop
• 2018Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo — Stuart
• 2017Diario de un Mirrey
• 2017Hysteria
• 40 y 20 — Arnold
• 2014Happy Times — Dr. Guillermo Murray
• 2014The Perfect Dictatorship — Embajador USA
• 2013Instructions Not Included — Abogado Julie
• 2012Outlaws - For Greater Glory — Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg
• 2012The Fantastic World of Juan Orol — Don Guillermo
• El Encanto del Águila — Paul Con Hintze
• 2009Bajo tierra — Old gringo
• 2008Julia — Frank
• 2007Propiedad Ajena — Roger Cassey
• 2007Species: The Awakening — Leland Fisk
• 2007The Wailer 2 — Professor Tomas McBride
• 2006Fast Food Nation — Terry
• 2002King of Texas — Smithwick
• 2001In the Time of the Butterflies — Manuel de Moya, Manuel De Moya
• 2001The Pearl — Captain
• 2001Warden of Red Rock — Prisoner
• 2000Baño de Sangre — Coronel
• 1999Little Saints — Scott Haines
• 1997Dance with the Devil — Herbert
• La Chacala — Profesor Von Derek
• 1996The Arrival — JPL Official
• 1995Una papa sin catsup
• 1994By Our Own Correspondent — Colonel Cosmo
• 1994Immortal Combat — Stan
• 1994The Burning Season — Reporter
• 1994The Cisco Kid — Alcott
• Acapulco H.E.A.T. — Arthur Cox
• 1992Infernal Death
• 1990Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back — Hofrax
• 1990Demons of the Desert — Gringo
• 1990El Fiscal De Hierro 2: La Venganza De Ramona
• 1990Mirror Mirror — Animal Wrangler
• 1990Total Recall — Agent
• 1989Licence to Kill — Wavekrest Captain
• 1988Con el odio en la piel
• 1988Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell — Inaros
• 1987Ghost Fever — TV Announcer
• Rosa Salvaje — Botones en el hotel de Nueva York
• 1986Murieron a la mitad del rio — Mr. Smith
• 1986Oceans of Fire — Tool Pusher
• 1985Rambo: First Blood Part II — Chief Radio Operator
• 1985The Falcon and the Snowman — FBI Agent
• 1984El Carro de la Muerte
• 1984Escuela de Placer — Cliente
• 1984Hombres de acción
• 1984The Evil That Men Do — Cannell
• 1984Wild Dogs
• 1983Triumphs of a Man Called Horse — Durand
• 1982Amityville II: The Possession — Prosecutor (uncredited)
• 1982Computercide — Robbins
• 1982Quell and Co. — Ames
• 1982Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
• 1981Cattle Annie and Little Britches — Capps
• 1980The Border — Slaughterhouse Foreman
• 1980The Fearless Man — Mr. Brown
• 1979357 Magnum — Mario Frasca
• 1979Roots of Blood — Factory foreman
• 1978Cananea — Ted Nolan
• 1978The Bees — Blankeley
• 1977Brothers of the Wind — Conductor
• 1977Mina, viento de libertad
• 1976The Aztec Karate Fighter — Calvin
• 1975Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary — Howard Miller
• 1975Nevada Smith — Perkins
• 1972Ni solteros, ni casados
• 1972Slaughter — Gio
• 1971Eye for an Eye