Pedro de Cordoba
actor (1881-1950)
Pedro de Cordoba (September 28, 1881 – September 16, 1950) was an American actor.
Early life
De Cordoba was born in New York City to Cuban and French parents.
Career
De Cordoba 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.
In 1913 he was a member of the resident summer stock cast at Elitch Theatre in Denver, Colorado. In 1921 he starred as Mr. Jovaine in Augustus Thomas's Nemesis at the Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia and on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre.
Hollywood
His first film was Cecil B. DeMille's version of Carmen (1915), and he soon became a regular leading man in Hollywood. His Broadway career cast him with such stage actresses as Jane Cowl and Katharine Cornell.
In the sound era, his deeply resonant speaking voice made him perfectly suited to talking pictures and was active as a character actor in Hollywood, from the mid-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.
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