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Found out he had cancer during the production of From Russia with Love (1963). The schedule of production was altered so he could finish his scenes before his death. He wanted to finish the movie so his family could receive his salary.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961

Was one of 91 people, along with John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, whose cancer was attributed to their exposure to radioactivity while working on the film The Conqueror (1956).

One of Mexico's most admired and respected actors, he was a six-time nominee for the Ariel Award for Best Actor, which he won twice (1948 and 1953). The Ariel Award is considered Mexico's Academy Award. In 1947, he won a special Ariel Award.

He graduated in 1931 and returned to Mexico City where he found work as a railroad employee, insurance salesman and tourist guide. He was discovered by director Miguel Zacarías when Armendáriz was reciting Hamlet's monologue (to be or not to be) to an American tourist in a cafeteria. After that, Armendáriz began a brilliant career in Mexico, the United States and Europe.

Born in Mexican revolution times, Pedro Armendáriz was the first child of Mexican Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and American Adele Hastings. He was raised in Churubusco, then a suburb of Mexico City, before the family traveled to Laredo, Texas. They lived there until 1921, the year Armendáriz' parents died. His uncle Francisco took charge of his education, and young Pedro went to the Polytechnic Institute of San Luis Obispo, California. There, he studied business and journalism.