Pedro de Cordoba

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Pedro de Cordoba
Born	Pietro de Cordoba (1881-09-28)September 28, 1881 New York City, USA
Died	September 16, 1950(1950-09-16) (aged 68) Sunland, California, USA
Resting place	Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1901–1951
Spouse(s)	Antoinette Glover ​ ​ (m. 1917; died 1921)​ Eleanor M. Nolan ​ ​ (m. 1928)​

Pedro de Cordoba (September 28, 1881 – September 16, 1950) was an American actor.

Biography[]

De Cordoba was born in New York City to parents who were French and Cuban in origin. He was a classically trained theatre actor who confessed he did not enjoy appearing in silent films nearly as much as he liked working on stage, but his career during the silent film era was extensive. His first film was Cecil B. DeMille's version of Carmen (1915), and he soon became a popular leading man in Hollywood. His Broadway career cast him with such stage actresses as Jane Cowl and Katharine Cornell.

Later, his deeply resonant speaking voice made him perfectly suited to talking pictures, and his film career continued, unlike many silent film stars. He enjoyed a career as a busy character actor in Hollywood, from the 1930s through to the end of his life. He was most often cast as aristocratic, or clerical characters of Hispanic origin, as in The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), because of his last name as well as his royal bearing. On rare occasions, he would be cast in the role of a villain. His "living skeleton" sideshow character hides fugitive Robert Cummings (and Priscilla Lane) in his carnival wagon overnight in the Alfred Hitchcock film Saboteur (1942).

He was a devout Catholic and was very well read and knowledgeable about the Catholic faith, and served for a time as president of the Catholic Actors Guild of America. The last film in which he appeared, a political drama set in an unnamed South American dictatorship, Crisis (1950), was released shortly after his death.

Selected filmography[]

With Marjorie Rambeau in the play Sadie Love (1915), later made into a 1919 film starring Billie Burke.

Pedro de Cordoba, Marion Davies, and Forrest Stanley in a scene still from the 1922 silent drama The Young Diana.

As Antoine in Escape to Paradise (1939)

Silent[]

• The Little White Violet (1915) (*short) as Phillip Randall
• Jeanne of the Woods (1915) (*short) as Hugh Travers N.W.M.P.
• Carmen (1915) as Escamillo
• Temptation (1915) as Julian
• Maria Rosa (1916) as Ramon
• Just a Song at Twilight (1916) as Carlysle Turner
• Sapho (1917) as Flamant
• One Law for Both (1917) as Count de Fernac
• Barbary Sheep (1917) as Benchaalal
• Runaway Romany (1917) as Zinga
• A Daughter of the Old South (1918) as Pedro de Alvarez
• The New Moon (1919) as Prince Michail Koloyar
• The Dark Mirror (1919) as Mario
• The World and His Wife (1920) as Don Severo
• The Sin That Was His (1920) as Father Aubert
• The Inner Chamber (1921) as Dr. George Danilo
• The Young Diana (1922) as Dr. Dimitrius
• When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922) as Duke of Buckingham
• Enemies of Women (1923) as Atilio Castro
• Fires of Fate (1923) as Prince Ibrahim
• The Purple Highway (1923) as Joe Renard
• I Will Repay (1923) as Paul Deroulede
• The Desert Sheik (1924) as Prince Ibrahim
• The Bandolero (1924) as Dorando
• The New Commandment (1925) as Picard

Sound[]

Radio appearances[]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pedro de Cordoba.

• Pedro de Cordoba at IMDb 
• Pedro de Cordoba at the Internet Broadway Database
• Pedro de Cordoba at AllMovie - entry #1
• Pedro de Cordoba at AllMovie - entry #2 (All Movie has disjointed entries)
• Pedro de Cordoba at Find a Grave
• left to right: Gladys Hulette, Lionel Barrymore, Pedro de Cordoba in Enemies of Women (1923)
• nytimes.com – New York Times > Movies > Pedro de Cordoba
• nytimes.com – News clippings