Name
Pedro Armendáriz
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-05-09
Deathday
1963-06-18 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Biography
Born in Churubusco, a suburb of Mexico City, and raised in Texas, he studied at California Polytechnic State University where he graduated with an engineering degree. He began his acting career at the stage in Mexico City, entering films there in 1935. During the next years he made 42 Spanish-language films, among them "Maria Candelaria" (1943) and "La Perla" (1947), becoming one of Mexico`s top film stars. His first American film was "The Fugitive" for RKO in 1947. Since then he costarred in more than 80 films in Hollywood, England, France, Germany and Italy. Credits include "Fort Apache" (1948), "Three Godfathers", "We Were Strangers" (1949), "El Bruto" (1952), "The Littlest Outlaw" (1955), "The Conqueror" (1956), "La Cucaracha" (1958) and "The Wonderful Country" (1959). When Armendariz was taken ill while filming the second James Bond film "From Russia With Love" his scenes were rushed through so he could return to L.A. for treatment and he entered UCLA Medical Center. Learning he had terminal cancer he killed himself there with a gunshot.
Known For
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Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a...
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Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infa...
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The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a for...
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Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the mi...
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Tough guy fights gangsters and counterfeiters in pre-Castro Cuba....
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A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he h...
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Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Mart...
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The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three fr...
- 1963 From Russia with Love as Ali Kerim Bey
- 1961 Francis of Assisi as The Sultan
- 1956 The Conqueror as Jamuga
- 1948 3 Godfathers as Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte
- 1963 Captain Sindbad as El Kerim
- 1953 The Brute as Pedro
- 1944 Maria Candelaria as Lorenzo Rafael
- 1948 Fort Apache as Sgt. Beaufort
- 1947 The Fugitive as A Lieutenant of Police
- 1957 The Big Boodle as Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)
- 1953 Lucrèce Borgia as César Borgia
- 1949 We Were Strangers as Armando Ariete
- 1955 Fortune carrée as Igricheff
- 1960 Calibre 44 as Don Pedro
- 1963 La Bandida as Roberto Herrera
- 1949 Tulsa as Jim Redbird
- 1943 Wild Flower as José Luis Castro
- 1945 The Abandoned as Juan Gómez
- 1945 Bugambilia as Ricardo Rojas
- 1954 Border River as General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)
- 1962 My Son, the Hero as Cadmo
- 1946 Enamorada as Gen. José Juan Reyes
- 1943 Another Dawn as Octavio
- 1948 Maclovia as José María
- 1959 The Little Savage as El Tiburón
- 1957 Men and Wolves as Giovanni
- 1956 Diane as King Francis I
- 1942 Simón Bolívar as General Briceño Méndez
- 1950 The Torch as José Juan Reyes
- 1962 Miracles Weaver as Señor Cura
- 1953 The Lovers of Toledo as Don Alvaro Blas Basto y Mosquera
- 1958 Los salvajes as Pedro Matías
- 1956 Basket of Mexican Tales as Carlos Cosio
- 1952 Soledad's Shawl as Roque Suazo
- 1951 Weddings of fire
- 1945 Entre hermanos as Ramón Arellano
- 1942 Allá en el bajio as Juan Hernández
- 1937 Amapola Del Camino
- 1939 Con Los Dorados De Villa
- 1938 Canto a mi tierra as Antonio
- 1941 El Zorro de Jalisco as Leonardo Torres
- 1940 El charro Negro as Ramón
- 1941 El secreto del sacerdote
- 1943 Tierra De Pasiones
- 1943 Konga Roja as Federico Robles
- 1944 La Guerra de los Pasteles
- 1960 La cárcel de Cananea as Pedro
- 1939 La China Hilaria
- 1949 Late Afternoon as Sebastian del Llano
- 1949 El abandonado
- 2024 The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout as Self (archive footage)
- 1954 Dos mundos y un amor as Ricardo Anaya
- 1945 El capitán Malacara
- 1949 The Unloved Woman as Esteban
- 1957 This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter as Pancho Villa
- 1958 This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter as Pancho Villa
- 1958 This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter as Pancho Villa
- 1938 El indio
- 1950 Rosauro Castro as Rosauro Castro
- 1951 Ella y yo as Pedro Muñóz
- 1947 Albur de amor
- 1949 El charro y la dama
- 1951 Hell Road as Pedro Uribe
- 1952 Meat in Prison as Pablo González
- 1951 Tierra baja as Manelic
- 1950 By the False Door as Bernardo Celis
- 1960 Violent Summer as Francisco Peña
- 1960 El impostor as Profesor César Rubio
- 1937 Mi candidato
- 1960 Our Daily Hunger as Macario Férnandez
- 1947 La casa colorada
- 1944 The Skulls of Terror Return
- 1950 Pancho Villa vuelve
- 1951 For Loving a Woman
- 1952 Los tres alegres compadres as Baldomero Mireles
- 1959 I'm flying low
- 1957 La mujer que no tuvo infancia
- 1959 The Vivanco Ladies as Gen. Inocencio Torrentera
- 1959 El zarco
- 1959 Café Colón
- 1960 Dos hijos desobedientes as Pedro
- 1957 Manuela as Mario Constanza
- 1950 La loca de la casa as José María Cruz
- 1942 Del rancho a la capital
- 1937 Jalisco nunca pierde
- 1940 Mala yerba as Chuy Rodríguez
- 1938 Los millones de Chaflán as Antonio
- 1962 Los valientes no mueren
- 1948 Juan Charrasqueado as Juan Robledo (Charrasqueado)
- 1954 Mulata as Martín
- 1942 I'm a Real Mexican as Guadalupe Padilla
- 1947 The Pearl as Quino
- 1940 Pobre diablo as Raúl Solares
- 1941 Ni sangre ni arena as Frank
- 1959 Yo pecador
- 1948 En la Hacienda de la Flor
- 1955 The Littlest Outlaw as Gen. Torres
- 1959 La Cucaracha as Coronel Valentín Razo
- 1961 My Son, the Hero as General
- 1954 Rebellion of the Hanged as Cándido Castro
- 1960 El indulto as Lucas Sánchez Parrondo
- 1940 Los olvidados de Dios as Zenón Rojas
- 1940 El jefe máximo
- 1956 The Hidden One as Felipe Rojano
- 1937 La Adelita
- 1960 Los desarraigados
- 1944 El corsario negro
- 1939 Una luz en mi camino as Daniel
- 1937 Las cuatro milpas
- 1944 The Skulls of Terror
- 1946 Rayando el sol
- 1954 Reto a la vida as Diego Maldonado
- 1955 Native Drums as Martinez
- 1942 Passion Island as El Toro
- 1959 Beyond All Limits as Pepe Gamboa
- 1952 Night Falls as Marcos Arizmendi
- 1959 Thirst for Love as Pedro Ortiz
- 1959 The Wonderful Country as Cipriano Castro
- 1958 Yo quiero ser artista as Self
- 1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ( 1 episode )
