Acting

Arturo de Córdova

Born May 8, 1908 · Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

Died November 3, 1973 · aged 65

Arturo de Córdova (May 8, 1908 – November 3, 1973) was a Mexican actor. He made over one hundred films in all. Arturo García Rodríguez was born in Mérida, Yucatán. Most of Córdova's films were made in Mexico and he became a major motion picture actor in Latin America and Spain winning three Silver Ariel's and received four other nominations. Córdova starred in the several American films during th…

Known For

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls · 1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls

MovieWarRomance

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.

MovieDramaThriller

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Los Perversos

Los Perversos · 1967

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.

El profe

El profe · 1971

MovieComedyDrama

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

Frenchman's Creek

Frenchman's Creek · 1944

Frenchman's Creek

MovieRomanceAdventure

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.

The Three Perfect Wives

The Three Perfect Wives · 1953

The Three Perfect Wives

MovieDramaRomance

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.

Masquerade in Mexico

Masquerade in Mexico · 1945

Masquerade in Mexico

MovieComedyMusic

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess.

Mala yerba

Mala yerba · 1940

MovieRomanceDrama

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls · 1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls

MovieWarRomance

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.

Agustín

MovieDramaThriller

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Francisco Galván de Montemayor

Los Perversos

Los Perversos · 1967

Priest is sympathetic and understanding toward mod-era young folks and their new world-view... but he gets in trouble with a biker gang and with a young woman who crushes unhealthily on him.

El profe

El profe · 1971

MovieComedyDrama

Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

Señor Gobernador

Frenchman's Creek

Frenchman's Creek · 1944

Frenchman's Creek

MovieRomanceAdventure

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.

Jean Benoit Aubrey

The Three Perfect Wives

The Three Perfect Wives · 1953

The Three Perfect Wives

MovieDramaRomance

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.

Gustavo Ferran

Masquerade in Mexico

Masquerade in Mexico · 1945

Masquerade in Mexico

MovieComedyMusic

An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess.

Manolo Segovia

Mala yerba

Mala yerba · 1940

MovieRomanceDrama

Plantation owner is way too much into his peasant girls. It causes problems.

Gertrudis

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales · 1960

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

MovieComedyCrime

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

Dr. Pablo Morales

El conde de Montecristo

El conde de Montecristo · 1942

El conde de Montecristo

MovieDramaAdventure

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

Edmundo Dantés / Conde de Montecristo

Incendiary Blonde

Incendiary Blonde · 1945

Incendiary Blonde

MovieMusicRomance

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"

Bill Romero Kilgannon

My Son, the Hero

My Son, the Hero · 1961

My Son, the Hero

MovieDramaWestern

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

La agonía de ser madre

La agonía de ser madre · 1970

La agonía de ser madre

She has an incurable heart condition, her son's a shoplifter, her husband's an alcoholic, her daughter runs away from home...

Luis García

A Medal for Benny

A Medal for Benny · 1945

A Medal for Benny

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.

Joe Morales

Stolen Heaven

Stolen Heaven · 1951

MovieThrillerMystery

A young woman loses her mind when she finds out that her uncle and his boyfriend met in a train accident.

Doctor Carlos de la Vega

Cuando acaba la noche

Cuando acaba la noche · 1964

Cuando acaba la noche

In a New York hospital, a man is cured of heroin addiction after a grueling three-month treatment. Although no longer an addict, he has complete amnesia: the only clues to his past are an expensive ring he was wearing when admitted, and a book of matches from a Puerto Rican nightclub. He pawns the ring and buys clandestine passage on a boat to Puerto Rico in search of his identity.

Doctor Mario Salinas

This was Pedro Infante

This was Pedro Infante · 1963

This was Pedro Infante

MovieDocumentaryMusic

The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.

Arturo de Córdova

Hostages

Hostages · 1943

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.

Paul Breda

The Gangster

The Gangster · 1965

MovieComedyCrime

An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.

Antonio Paredes / Tony Wall

The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face · 1950

The Man Without a Face

MovieThrillerHorror

A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.

Juan Carlos Lozano

México de mis amores

México de mis amores · 1979

México de mis amores

MovieDocumentary

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

A Stranger on the Stairs

A Stranger on the Stairs · 1955

A Stranger on the Stairs

MovieThrillerDrama

Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.

Alberto Nuñez

¿Qué haremos con papá?

¿Qué haremos con papá? · 1966

¿Qué haremos con papá?

The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.

Juan José Gómez

El secreto del sacerdote

El secreto del sacerdote · 1941

El secreto del sacerdote

Priest Jesus knows a dark secret that was passed onto him during confession. When the town mayor threatens the integrity of some people, it is up to the priest to take action or remain silent.

Padre Jesús