Alec Mango (16 March 1911 – 7 November 1989) was an English actor,[1][2].
Career
Best known for portraying El Supremo in the 1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower, Mango appeared in South of Algiers (1953), The Strange World of Planet X (1958), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Danger Man (1961), and Frankenstein Created Woman (1967).[3]
He also appeared in the television shows, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Strangers and Brothers.[4] One of his last TV appearances was Channel 4’s TV Movie The Gourmet as Rossi on 4th of January 1987.
Partial filmography
- Fiddlers Three (1944) − Secretary (uncredited)
- Snowbound (1948) − Italian Girl’s Boyfriend (uncredited)
- Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) − El Supremo
- His Excellency (1952) − Jackie
- South of Algiers (1953) − Mahmoud
- They Who Dare (1954) − Patroklis
- Up to His Neck (1954) − Bandit General
- Mask of Dust (1954) − Guido Rosetti
- Lust for Life (1956) − Dr. Rey (uncredited)
- Zarak (1956) − Akbar (merchant)
- Interpol (1957) − Salko
- The Shiralee (1957) − Papadoulos
- The Strange World of Planet X (1958) − Dr. Laird
- The Man Inside (1958) − Lopez
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) − Caliph
- The Angry Hills (1959) − Phillibos
- The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) − Minister of Lilliput
- A Story of David (1961) − Kudruh
- We Shall See, (Edgar Wallace Mysteries) (1964) − Ludo
- Khartoum (1966) − Bordeini Bey (uncredited)
- Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) − Spokesman
- Some May Live (1967) − Ducrai
- Steptoe and Son (1972) − Hotel Doctor
- The Playbirds (1978) − Ransome
- Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979) − Pembleton
- Lion of the Desert (1980)
- Gothic (1986) − Murray (final film role)
References
- ^ McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 – via Google Books.
- ^ “Alec Mango – Theatricalia”. theatricalia.com. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ^ “Alec Mango”. Archived from the original on 21 October 2017.
- ^ “C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers”. BBC Genome Project. 21 March 1984. Retrieved 11 April 2026.
External links
- Alec Mango at IMDb
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