Pedro Armendáriz
Birthday: 1912-05-09
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.
Movies
From Russia with Love
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret cr...
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Francis of Assisi
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army...
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The Conqueror
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. T...
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3 Godfathers
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safe...
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Captain Sindbad
After completing his voyages Sindbad the Sailor and his hearty crew have come home to find a palace ...
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The Brute
A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She...
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Maria Candelaria
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his ...
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Fort Apache
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military hon...
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The Fugitive
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary govern...
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Lucrèce Borgia
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his...
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We Were Strangers
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret poli...
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Fortune carrée
Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees a...
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Calibre 44
The film tells the story of two twins separated in childhood who reunite when they are older. One of...
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La Bandida
During a lull in the Mexican Revolution when Francisco Madero became president and attempted to impl...
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Tulsa
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in...
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Wild Flower
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the fo...
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The Abandoned
A young woman, abandoned by her womanizing fiancé, is forced to provide for the upbringing of her so...
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Bugambilia
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the ...
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Border River
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight...
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My Son, the Hero
Krios, the youngest of the Titans, may be the least strong of the seven brothers whose strength come...
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Enamorada
In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholul...
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Another Dawn
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover ...
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Maclovia
On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disda...
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The Little Savage
The most fearsome pirate in epic deeds and fierce battles. Betrayed and abandoned on an island, disc...
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Men and Wolves
Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful...
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Diane
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress i...
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Simón Bolívar
Biopic of the revolutionary Simón Bolívar who fought to end Spanish rule over much of Latin America....
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The Torch
The story of a fear-inspiring revolutionary general who develops a passion for the daughter of a wea...
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Miracles Weaver
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her ...
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The Lovers of Toledo
Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the ...
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Los salvajes
Pedro, a wealthy Mexican landowner, is convinced he can get everything he wants with money and arrog...
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Basket of Mexican Tales
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them run...
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Soledad's Shawl
Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts a...
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Weddings of fire
When the doctor's city girlfriend falls ill, a handsome rancher takes her to his ranch to get better...
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Entre hermanos
During the Mexican Revolution, brothers Ramón and Geraldo fall in love with Pilar who is uncertain o...
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Amapola Del Camino
A young woman is forced to marry an old pharmacist, but she is in love with a young man who is leavi...
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Con Los Dorados De Villa
Three of Villa's soldiers 'adopt' the orphaned daughter of a friend who was killed in battle....
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Canto a mi tierra
Theatrical producers discover a new musical-theatre star in a small farming town....
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El Zorro de Jalisco
Isabel, the daughter of Don Antonio; a rich land owner in Tepestates, Jalisco returns to her town af...
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El charro Negro
Masked cowboy avenger in the style of The Lone Ranger, first film in a series of four....
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El secreto del sacerdote
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor....
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Konga Roja
A new supervisor arrives at a banana plantation to find out the truth behind a series of strange eve...
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Tierra De Pasiones
Romantic melodrama; hero and rich landowner are both after the same woman....
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La Guerra de los Pasteles
Musical comedy about a pastry chef and his daughter in the 1830s...
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La China Hilaria
Hilaria's engaged to be married, but her fiance may never come back from Texas. Meanwhile, two local...
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El abandonado
Based on a popular song. An unhappy love affair becomes an excuse for heavy drinking and all-round d...
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Late Afternoon
A former farmhand now with money, wants to buy his former boss's farm and marry his daughter, but th...
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The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible ...
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Dos mundos y un amor
Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage....
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El capitán Malacara
Misogynist military man is laid up for a month with a broken leg and during his convalescence he lea...
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La malquerida
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsess...
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This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator o...
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This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several storie...
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This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter
The second chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about t...
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El indio
Social-justice movie about exploitation of Indians by white people in pre-Revolution Mexico....
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Rosauro Castro
Cardoza's death, a candidate for mayor of a village chief enemy and Rosauro Castro, leads to Mr. Gar...
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Ella y Yo
Pedro Muñoz is a womanizer that does not escape one until Irene Garza arrives and makes him to see h...
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Albur de amor
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights....
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El charro y la dama
Bratty rich girl plays practical jokes on the man that she'll obviously end up marrying....
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Hell Road
When a robbery goes wrong, the thief takes a singer as hostage, they fall in love and try to rebuild...
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Meat in Prison
Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will f...
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By the False Door
Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family alt...
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Tierra baja
A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the...
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Violent Summer
During the Mexican Revolution, Beatriz's body is discovered by some kids. The police began to invest...
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El impostor
An academic and his family go back to the land, then get involved in politics....
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Mi candidato
Young silversmith runs for office, butts heads with political machine that's sucking the town dry....
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Our Daily Hunger
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience...
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La casa colorada
Mexican Revolution: rich man's son kills somebody over a woman, runs off to the war, goes home after...
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The Skulls of Terror Return
A group of friends form a masked gang nicknamed 'The Skulls of Terror' and confront a local politica...
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Pancho Villa vuelve
Two romantic rivals join the Mexican Revolution on opposing sides. The movie's more interested in th...
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I'm flying low
Two hot-shot pilots working for the same company get all competitive and ructious toward each other....
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La mujer que no tuvo infancia
Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist w...
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The Vivanco Ladies
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter....
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El zarco
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they...
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Café Colón
Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help fina...
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Dos hijos desobedientes
Meddling mom tries to set up her two cowboy sons to marry two sisters who are looking for domesticat...
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Manuela
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship ...
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Del rancho a la capital
Rich city family is close to bankruptcy; rich country cousins come to visit....
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La loca de la casa
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor....
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Mala yerba
Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems....
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Los valientes no mueren
Charro-dude wants his sister to marry into professional city-folk and move into the upper classes......
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Juan Charrasqueado
Hard-living horse-trainer has a thing with an aristocratic woman... but her brothers aren't happy to...
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Mulata
In the port of Havana, two biracial children, Mateo (Ricardo Román) and Caridad (Ninón Sevilla) grow...
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Soy puro mexicano
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacien...
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The Pearl
Fisherman Quino and his wife Juana are very poor and desperate because the town's foreign doctor ref...
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Pobre diablo
An elderly homeless dude lucks into a situation where a young woman's uncle and her boyfriend ask hi...
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Ni sangre ni arena
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's...
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Yo pecador
Biopic of a 1930s operatic tenor who ended up becoming a Franciscan monk and joining the priesthood....
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En la Hacienda de la Flor
Sequel to "Juan Charrasqueado." Juan Jr. discovers that the woman he's engaged to is the daughter of...
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The Littlest Outlaw
Little Pablito is the ten year old son of a cruel horse trainer. The trainer is responsible for trai...
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La Cucaracha
The Mexican Revolution serves as a backdrop to a torrid love triangle composed of three freedom figh...
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My Son, the Hero
Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reyn...
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Rebellion of the Hanged
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the ...
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El indulto
Spain, 1906: in a small village and pregnant after having been raped, Antonia is forced to marry the...
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The Hidden One
Amid the Mexican Revolution, a woman rises from the depths of poverty and becomes a courtesan who is...
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La Adelita
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her an...
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Los desarraigados
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at...
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El corsario negro
This Mexican drama features murder, revenge, ruling power and romance in Eighteenth century Maracaib...
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Una luz en mi camino
A blind songwriter struggles to get his work published, and meanwhile a girl he's sweet on disappear...
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Las cuatro milpas
Bad dude tries to make time with a good dude's fiancée. When he can't get anywhere with her, he and ...
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The Skulls of Terror
Feature-length version of a serial, originally in twelve chapters. Three-hour runtime, later re-edit...
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Reto a la vida
Self-righteous young Social Services woman puts all her faith in the institutional answers to questi...
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Native Drums
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness...
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Passion Island
1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called...
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Beyond All Limits
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives w...
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Night Falls
Marcos is an arrogant jai-alai player who seduces and discards women until he himself becomes the ob...
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Thirst for Love
Rosaura, a devout religious woman, lives in a fishing village with her sister María who stopped beli...
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The Wonderful Country
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady t...
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Yo quiero ser artista
The Postman Adalberto is involved by chance in the filming of a scene, which gives the film director...
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