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.
The Pearl
As Captain
Julia
Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back
As Hofrax
Species: The Awakening
As Leland Fisk
The Wailer 2
As Professor Tomas McBride
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse
As Durand
Warden of Red Rock
As Prisoner
Propiedad Ajena
As Roger Cassey
In the Time of the Butterflies
As Manuel de Moya
Con el odio en la piel
Instructions Not Included
As Abogado Julie
Fast Food Nation
As Terry
El Carro de la Muerte
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
As Inaros
Dance with the Devil
As Herbert
Santitos
As Scott Haines
Happy Times
As Dr. Guillermo Murray
Diario de un Mirrey
Computercide
As Robbins
The Evil That Men Do
As Cannell
The Fantastic World of Juan Orol
As Don Guillermo
Escuela de Placer
As Cliente
Ghost Fever
As TV Announcer
Showdown at Eagle Gap
As Ames
By Our Own Correspondent
As Colonel Cosmo
357 Magnum
As Mario Frasca
Oceans of Fire
As Tool Pusher
Brothers of the Wind
As Conductor
Amityville II: The Possession
As Prosecutor (uncredited)
The Arrival
As JPL Official
Infernal Death
Demons of the Desert
Roots of Blood
As Factory foreman
The Bees
As Blankeley
The Fearless Man
As Mr. Brown
The Falcon and the Snowman
As FBI Agent
Immortal Combat
As Stan
King of Texas
As Smithwick
The Perfect Dictatorship
As Embajador USA
The Aztec Karate Fighter
As Calvin
Una papa sin catsup
Wild Dogs
Licence to Kill
As Wavekrest Captain
Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire
Hombres de acción
Bajo tierra
As Old gringo
Más sabe el Diablo por Viejo
As Stuart
Ni solteros, ni casados
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
As Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg
Eye for an Eye
Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
As Howard Miller
Rambo: First Blood Part II
As Chief Radio Operator
Total Recall
As Agent
Hysteria
Cananea
As Ted Nolan
The Burning Season
As Reporter
Nevada Smith
As Perkins
Mina, viento de libertad
The Containment
As Bishop
The Border
As Slaughterhouse Foreman
Acapulco H.E.A.T.
As Arthur Cox
La Chacala
As Profesor Von Derek
Rosa Salvaje
As Botones en el hotel de Nueva York
40 y 20
As Arnold