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Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (died 1963)

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Born
May 9, 1912
Died
June 18, 1963
Zodiac sign
Taurus
Birth year
1912

About Pedro Armendáriz

Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings was a Mexican and American actor. With the actresses Dolores del Río and María Félix, he was one of the best-known Latin American movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s. He won the Ariel Award for Best Actor twice, for The Pearl (1948) and Soledad's Shawl (1952). He was discovered by film director Miguel Zacarías when Armendáriz recited a soliloquy from Hamlet to an American tourist. Armendáriz began to suffer pain in his hips; years later it was discovered that he had neck cancer. He won the Ariel Award for Best Actor twice (out of six nominations), for The Pearl (1948) and Soledad's Shawl (1952). The film was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.

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Pedro Armendáriz timeline

  1. The film was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
  2. He won the Ariel Award for Best Actor twice (out of six nominations), for The Pearl (1948) and Soledad's Shawl (1952).
  3. He won the Ariel Award for Best Actor twice, for The Pearl (1948) and Soledad's Shawl (1952).

The world when Pedro Armendáriz was born

Pedro Armendáriz was born in 1912. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1912

  • Best-selling book"The Harvester" – Gene Stratton-Porter

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentJim Thorpe wins two gold medals at the Stockholm Olympics
  • Top headlineRMS Titanic sinks on maiden voyage — 1,500+ die
  • Technology milestoneFirst parachute jump from an airplane
  • World population~1.72B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam Howard Taft
  • U.S. population94.6M

1912 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Pedro Armendáriz's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19122026
Population94.6M341 million

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