Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz

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: Acting

Born: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, 1912-05-09

Died: 1963-06-18

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1937	Jalisco nunca pierde		55
2	1937	Mi candidato		55
3	1937	Las cuatro milpas		50
4	1937	Amapola Del Camino		50
5	1937	La Adelita		50
6	1938	El indio		35
7	1938	Los millones de Chaflán	Antonio	60
8	1938	Canto a mi tierra	Antonio	50
9	1939	La China Hilaria		50
10	1939	Una luz en mi camino		52
11	1939	Con Los Dorados De Villa		55
12	1940	Los olvidados de Dios	Zenón Rojas	50
13	1940	Pobre diablo	Raúl Solares	55
14	1940	El charro Negro	Ramón	46
15	1940	Mala yerba	Chuy Rodríguez	45
16	1940	El jefe máximo		50
17	1941	El secreto del sacerdote		55
18	1941	El Zorro de Jalisco	Leonardo Torres	45
19	1941	Ni sangre ni arena	Frank	71
20	1942	Simón Bolívar	General Briceño Méndez	50
21	1942	Allá en el bajio	Juan Hernández	55
22	1942	Del rancho a la capital		50
23	1942	Passion Island	El Toro	40
24	1942	Soy puro mexicano		53
25	1943	Wild Flower	José Luis Castro	64
26	1943	Tierra De Pasiones		55
27	1943	Konga Roja	Federico Robles	50
28	1943	Another Dawn	Octavio	67
29	1944	La Guerra de los Pasteles		55
30	1944	Maria Candelaria	Lorenzo Rafael	72
31	1944	El corsario negro		55
32	1944	The Skulls of Terror Return		0
33	1944	The Skulls of Terror		55
34	1945	The Abandoned	Juan Gómez	57
35	1945	Entre hermanos	Ramón Arellano	50
36	1945	El capitán Malacara		60
37	1945	Bugambilia	Ricardo Rojas	56
38	1946	Rayando el sol		55
39	1946	Enamorada	Gen. José Juan Reyes	77
40	1947	La casa colorada		52
41	1947	Albur de amor		45
42	1947	The Pearl	Quino	71
43	1947	The Fugitive	A Lieutenant of Police	59
44	1948	Juan Charrasqueado		68
45	1948	Fort Apache	Sgt. Beaufort	70
46	1948	En la Hacienda de la Flor		55
47	1948	Maclovia	José María	65
48	1948	3 Godfathers	Pedro 'Pete' Roca Fuerte	67
49	1949	Tulsa	Jim Redbird	61
50	1949	We Were Strangers	Armando Ariete	59
51	1949	Late Afternoon	Sebastian del Llano	62
52	1949	El abandonado		53
53	1949	La malquerida	Esteban	69
54	1949	El charro y la dama		50
55	1950	Pancho Villa vuelve		53
56	1950	The Torch	José Juan Reyes	48
57	1950	La loca de la casa	José María Cruz	57
58	1950	By the False Door	Bernardo Celis	67
59	1950	Rosauro Castro	Rosauro Castro	61
60	1951	Tierra baja	Manelic	55
61	1951	Weddings of fire		50
62	1951	Hell Road	Pedro Uribe	63
63	1951	Por querer a una mujer		57
64	1951	Ella y Yo	Pedro Muñóz	44
65	1952	Los tres alegres compadres		53
66	1952	Night Falls	Marcos Arizmendi	65
67	1952	Meat in Prison	Pablo González	58
68	1952	Soledad's Shawl	Roque Suazo	61
69	1953	The Lovers of Toledo	Don Alvaro Blas Basto y Mosquera	10
70	1953	The Brute	Pedro	70
71	1953	Lucrèce Borgia	César Borgia	43
72	1954	Border River	General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)	62
73	1954	Rebellion of the Hanged	Cándido Castro	65
74	1954	Dos mundos y un amor	Ricardo Anaya	80
75	1954	Reto a la vida		55
76	1954	Mulata	Martín	44
77	1955	Fortune carrée	Igricheff	50
78	1955	Native Drums		0
79	1955	The Littlest Outlaw	Gen. Torres	55
80	1956	Diane	King Francis I	58
81	1956	The Conqueror	Jamuga	34
82	1956	Basket of Mexican Tales	Carlos Cosio	68
83	1956	The Hidden One	Felipe Rojano	49
84	1957	This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter	Pancho Villa	64
85	1957	Men and Wolves	Giovanni	60
86	1957	The Big Boodle	Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)	49
87	1957	Manuela	Mario Constanza	57
88	1957	La mujer que no tuvo infancia		55
89	1958	Los salvajes	Pedro Matías	50
90	1958	Yo quiero ser artista	Self	56
91	1958	This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter	Pancho Villa	51
92	1958	This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter	Pancho Villa	49
93	1959	I'm flying low		57
94	1959	The Little Savage	El Tiburón	50
95	1959	Café Colón		50
96	1959	The Vivanco Ladies	Gen. Inocencio Torrentera	68
97	1959	El zarco		53
98	1959	Beyond All Limits	Pepe Gamboa	52
99	1959	Thirst for Love	Pedro Ortiz	50
100	1959	Yo pecador		58
101	1959	The Wonderful Country	Cipriano Castro	61
102	1959	La Cucaracha	Coronel Valentín Razo	61
103	1960	Our Daily Hunger	Macario Férnandez	80
104	1960	Calibre 44	Don Pedro	51
105	1960	El impostor		56
106	1960	Dos hijos desobedientes	Pedro	52
107	1960	Los desarraigados		50
108	1960	El indulto	Lucas Sánchez Parrondo	49
109	1960	Violent Summer	Francisco Peña	41
110	1960	La cárcel de Cananea	Pedro	56
111	1961	Francis of Assisi	The Sultan	76
112	1961	My Son, the Hero	General	80
113	1962	Los valientes no mueren		55
114	1962	My Son, the Hero	Cadmo	57
115	1962	El tejedor de milagros	Señor Cura	57
116	1963	La Bandida	Roberto Herrera	46
117	1963	Captain Sindbad	El Kerim	50
118	1963	From Russia with Love	Ali Kerim Bey	71
119	2024	The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout	Self (archive footage)	80

Pedro Armendáriz

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