Biography
Armando Silvestre (born 6 January 1926) is a Mexican film actor. He has appeared in more than 190 films since 1948.
Known For
Complete Filmography

La Lucha Invade el Cine Mexicano
2024
as Armando Rios
Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about th...

The daughter of Moctezuma
2013
as El coronel
La India María must find at all costs in the recesses of a mountain the Magic Black Mirror of Tezcatlipoca, since the spirit of his great-grandfather ...

Perdida
2009
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to prod...

Pocket Angel
2005
as Himself
A young Angel’s first assignment is to restore faith and courage to a mother whose son has been kidnapped in Mexico. Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture...

Reclusorio III
1999
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
El heredero
1999

Entre dos fuegos
1998

El regreso de la suburban dorada
1998
as Padilla
A former judicial police officer, a former undercover agent and a former drug lord seek revenge against a commander-turned-drug trafficker.
Los tres animales
1998
as Comandante

Las nueve caras del miedo
1995
as Dr. Mauricio Galván Fuentes
A TV crew alongside a medium, a friar and a killer with regrets spend the night inside a haunted hotel, place where a guy murdered prostitutes in the ...

La ley del cholo
1995

El arrecife de los alacranes
1994

Dos hermanos buena onda
1994

Apocalipsis infernal
1993
According to direct testimonies collected from the family of the Mexican filmmaker Christian González, with the actor Leonardo Daniel and with the act...
Un hombre salvaje
1993
as Hernández
A street brawler becomes a cop after his best friend is murdered. He finds out his killers, drug traffickers and cops are one and the same and his mor...

Imperio blanco
1992
Two reformatory kids grow up and become movers in the drug trade.

The Last Riders
1992
as Davis
When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them o...

Pandilla de criminales
1992
La dama y el judicial
1992

The Killing Zone
1991
as Sam Bodine
Convict is recruited from a chain gang to help capture a Mexican drug lord.

Perseguida
1991
as The Chief
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several ...

Rescate mortal
1990
as Coronel Santiestevan
A college student goes on vacation to a South American country after learning he has cancer, and gets involved in the local civil war after his best f...
Discriminación Maldita
1990

Comando marino
1990
as Comandante Naval

Sentencia de muerte
1990
La chica del alacrán de oro
1990

Esta noche cena Pancho
1986
as Marcelo
Four friends gather to organize a wild and sleazy bachelor party.

El cafre
1986
Trucker accepts an assignment to haul an extremely dangerous load of explosives from Tijuana to Mexico City.

Secuestro
1986
Mexican feature film

Los matones del norte
1985
Young man grows up thinking that his father's murderer is dead but wanting revenge against the guys who hired him to commit that crime.

Hot Chili
1985
as Pedro
A group of American teenage boys goes south of the border to work for the summer at a Mexican resort. There they encounter many wacky guests and have ...

Contrato con la muerte
1985

Narcotráfico: Sentencia De Muerte
1985
It’s the Feds vs. the Cartel as both sides of the law race through the desert to snag a hidden dope stash in New Drug City.

La Pulquería Ataca de Nuevo
1985
as Germán Luther
The film continues the outrageous antics of its eccentric patrons and staff, blending slapstick humor, misadventures, and love triangles. As the bar f...

El judicial
1984
Law enforcement vs drug-traffickers: two buddy cops etc etc etc.

La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo
1984
After regaining his manliness, he escapes from hell Satan for embezzling Secretary of infernal hacienda, being chased by a couple of poor devils good ...

The Glories of the Great Púas
1984
Journalist becomes a member of a boxing champion's entourage to write a book about the boxer's career.

Los que nunca llegaron
1984

Lobo Salvaje
1983

Mercenarios de la Muerte
1983

Niño pobre, niño rico
1983
Two teenagers from different social class strike up a close friendship that makes their families get together despite their differences.

El Bronco
1982
Boxer fights his way up toward a world championship and faces ups and downs in his love life.

Las muñecas del King Kong
1981
Rape/revenge story in a rural setting, with subplots about stealing livestock, home-invasion activity, and sexytimes with bar-girls.

Contacto chicano
1981
American and Mexican police operatives team up to catch gem-smugglers operating on the gulf coast in Texas.

Las cabareteras
1980
Power-struggles between gangsters over ownership/control of a strip club.

Mystery
1980
A soap opera actor is mixed in a real drama very similar to what he represents in his work.

Muñecas de medianoche
1979
as Inspector Autoridad / Rorro Buga
Two young men go into hiding to escape from a contract killer; they put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Hell in the Jungle
1979
as Miguel
A group of sadists intent on rape girls in the middle of the wilderness.
La banda del polvo maldito
1979
A man returns home only to find out his friend is an undercover drug enforcement agent who is trying to dismantle a criminal organization from within.

Tierra sangrienta
1979
Trio of gunslinger/thieves set their sights on a rich family with lots of money flowing through their hacienda.

Gente violenta
1979
Heist and double-crosses.
Matar por matar
1979

El fuego de mi ahijada
1979
Young Raúl looks for his ex-girlfriend Alicia to resume their relationship, but she responds that she doesn't love him anymore. The young woman lives ...

Ratas del asfalto
1978
Spoiled rich boys get into drag-racing and end up in beeg trobbles.

The Children of Sanchez
1978
as Mr. Chaparro (uncredited)
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by...

Cuchillo
1978
After the 14th Ammendment to the US Constitution, everyone has rights - except the Native Americans. Cavalry Army General Boyd applies that by breakin...

Pink Zone
1976
as Juan
In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor, a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite with an old lover. Suddenly, the man reappears to ta...

I Was Raped
1976
as Carlos
In Panamá City, a man stalks a well-to-do adolescent, without knowing that she is the daughter he procreated when he raped a woman.

The Living Forces
1975
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revoluti...

Noche de muerte
1975
as Inspector Ponce
Someone who wears a blue mask, is squat and has giant hands are killing people and stealing jewelry and money. The witnesses are afraid to talk, despi...

La mafia amarilla
1975
as Inspector Ponce
Blue Demon must stop an evil chinese gang and their reign of terror.

Anonymous Death Threat
1975
as Inspector Ponce
Men are turning up dead after receiving anonymous threats that include the date of their deaths. The latest person to receive one of these threats dec...

La Choca
1974
as Fabiel
A smuggler lives far from civilization, in a hut in the jungle with his wife, La Choca, his son and his sister-in-law Flor. One day some men arrive, w...

Peor que los buitres
1974
as Mike
A group of biker outlaws escape into the desert after assaulting a mining company. Under the threat of the sun, they will run into internal betrayals ...

Faith, Hope and Charity
1974
as Artemio (segment "Fe")
Three episodes. Faith: a woman is attacked. Hope: a fakir is crucified. Charity: a woman faces bureaucracy.

Faith
1974
as Artemio
Teresa is married to Filogonio, a man who suffers from pain in his legs, which prevents him from walking, so she decides to make a religious vow and t...

The Wall of Silence
1974
as Carlos
Regina, who lives with her son Daniel, loses her teaching job because his illegitimacy. She opens a sewing shop and keeps her child away from people. ...

Volveré a nacer
1973
as Samuel
Mónica, the manager and wife of singer Álex, plans a publicity stunt that goes awry. When her husband shoots a rival singer with a gun supposedly fill...

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1971
as Robert Ramirez
D.A. Paul Ryan doesn't buy self-defense when a pharmacist fatally shoots an armed robber and brings the man up on manslaughter charges, for which he's...

Temporada salvaje
1971
as Tony Race

Santo vs. The Riders of Terror
1970
as Dario
After a group of violent lepers escapes from a sanitarium, - robbing several farms, residents of the town demand the the sheriff - take action. Meanwh...

Barquero
1970
as Sawyer
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only ...

Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970
as 1st American
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has...
Crónica de un cobarde
1970

The Desperate Mission
1969
as Diego Campos
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious treasure - to safety in San Francisco.

Préstame a tu mujer
1969
A man who took a vow of chastity wants to keep his mistress.

The Door and The Butcher's Wife
1969
as Jorge (segment "La puerta")
A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a biza...

The Door
1969
as Jorge
At a high society gathering, a door inside the mansion leads to a strange hallway.

No juzgarás a tus padres
1969
Self-hating mixed-race woman denies her African heritage.

Cuernos debajo de la cama
1969
as Guillermo
A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers.

Dangerous Dolls
1969
Counter-espionage ring of beautiful young women protects atomic secrets from the bad guys.

Night of the Bloody Apes
1969
as Lt. Arturo Martinez
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.

Las infieles
1969

The Bat Woman
1968
as Tony Roca
When a mad scientist begins kidnapping wrestlers and extracting their spinal fluid to create a race of Gill Men, two cops call in Batwoman to investig...

The Scalphunters
1968
as Two Crows
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegad...
Ensayo de una noche de bodas
1968

El asesino se embarca
1967
as Tony
Cops vs counterfeiters on a cruise ship.

The Island of the Dinosaurs
1967
as Molo
A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island full of stock footage monsters fresh from One Million BC. Oc...

Rage
1966
as Antonio
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

¡Viva Benito Canales!
1966
Campesino with leadership qualities is indecisive about whether he should join the Revolution or concentrate on improving conditions at his farm, also...

Smoky
1966
as Gordon
A cowboy named Clint bonds with a beautiful wild stallion that he trains, but after the two are separated and the horse ends up in a rodeo, Clint is d...

Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider
1966
as Jim Santee
Daniel Boone leads a party of settlers into Kentucky to found the town of Boonesborough. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with a lovely, red-...
Los tres salvajes
1966
Ranchera comedy: three guys compete for the farmer's daughter.
Martín Romero El Rápido
1966
Quick-drawing cowboy hero, first in series. (See also:Frontera sin ley.)

Los Endemoniados del Ring
1966
as Dom Gonçalo - Duke de Edington
The ring possessed "Angel" and "Satan" not accept under any circumstances the trickery proposal with "Tarzan Beto" idol of the moment.

Duelo de pistoleros
1966
Four expert marksmen compete in a target shooting competition. Each has a back-story that explains why he really really really needs the prize money.

Falsificadores y Asesinos
1966
When criminals kidnap her brother and force her to secretly exchange their counterfeit dollars for real ones, bank cashier Rosa looks to an unassuming...

Mar sangriento
1965
Shady waterfront guy rents a yacht from a married couple and they all go off on a secret mission together.

The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
1964
as Armando Rios
Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi are tag-team Luchadoras, helping a scientist on a quest to discover an ancient Aztec treasure, but the fiendish Prince Fu...

La maldición de mi raza
1964
as Peter Sanders
A young woman gets in trouble for wanting to deny her ethnic ancestry.

Kings of the Sun
1963
as Isatai
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the U...

Doctor of Doom
1963
as Armando Campos
A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experi...

Neutron vs. Dr. Caronte
1963
as Mario Núñez
Neutron, a superhero/wrestler, goes up against a mad scientist and his army of monsters.

Horizontes de sangre
1962
Bad Comanches persuade good Apaches to go on the warpath.

Under the Cover of Night
1962
as Carlos
The vedette Miriam ignores her pretender Carlos because her daughter Margot, whom she passes as her sister, is in love with him.

Sangre en el ring
1962
Boxing melodrama; heroic middleweight vs. crooked promoters. Sequel to Dinamita Kid.

Neutron the Atomic Superman vs. the Death Robots
1962
as Mario
The evil scientist Dr. Caronte plots to revive the brains of three dead scientists and use them to obtain the formula for the super-powerful neutron b...

Pueblo de odios
1962
Bad hats try to manipulate townsfolk and neighboring Apache tribal settlement into a range war.

Dinamita Kid
1962
Young boxer on the rise butts head with dishonest promoters. Etc etc.

Santo vs. the Zombies
1962
as Lt. Sanmartin
Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.

Geronimo
1962
as Natchez
In 1883, the Apache Indians lead by Geronimo reluctantly surrender to the attacks of American and Mexican troops, in exchange for a territory and food...

Neutron and the Black Mask
1962
as Jaime Yáñez
Dr. Charon and his group of mad scientists built a neutron bomb with trying to blackmail the free world for global power. But the hero appears, Neutro...

La rabia por dentro
1962
Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a b...
En busca de la muerte
1961

¡Viva la soldadera!
1960

For the Love of Mike
1960
as Tony Eagle
An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.

Miracle Roses
1960
as Tlaltecalzin
Before the Spanish Conquest, an Aztec princess does the Romeo and Juliet thing with the Prince of a neighboring tribe. Sixty years later, a colonized ...

Impaciencia del corazón
1960
Young army officer gets involved with two sisters; one of them's a chronic invalid and her family has protected and sheltered her from all possible ha...

La diligencia de la muerte
1959
as Jorge Morales
Law officer goes undercover as member of gang of murderous highwaymen.
El zarco
1959
Upperclass girl and notorious bandit leader fall in love. She agrees to "let him kidnap her" so they can be together, but she gets disillusioned when ...
Pueblo en armas
1959
Appointed by the dictator Huerta, a local official tries to use his authority to pressure a young woman into marrying him. Meanwhile, counter-revoluti...

Ladrones de niños
1958
as Alfredo García
Kidnapping band has a system set up to transport infants and older children to black-market adoptive parents in the USA.

Path of evil
1957
as Rogelio

Assassins of the Night
1957
as Armando del Valle
After serving a prison sentence, a guy goes after the gang-leader who framed him.
Grítenme piedras del campo
1957

La mujer de dos caras
1957
as Baby Arrieta
A beautiful woman will stop at nothing in her quest for money and power. Not even murder.
Las medias de seda
1956
Vineyard worker is happy when her long-estranged artist brother comes to visit her. But then...

La doncella de piedra
1956
Adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel Sobre la misma tierra. A young mixed-race woman is forced to choose between her tribal heritage and her position ...

La sombra vengadora
1956
as Rogelio
An evil mastermind, known as La mano negra, attempts to steal a formula that creates synthetic drugs but a masked avenger known as La sombra will do a...
La sombra vengadora contra la mano negra
1955
Masked wrestler vs. gothic criminal gang. Third or fourth in a series.

La Tierra del Fuego se apaga
1955
In the faraway lands of the south of the Patagonia, in a town made up of wrongdoers and thieves, a mysterious and solitary man takes a prostitute to l...

Historia de un abrigo de mink
1955
Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.

Non scherzare con le donne
1955
as Antonio

The White Orchid
1954
as Juan Cervantes
In the Southern Mexican jungle, an adventurous archaeologist is accompanied by an equally daring female photographer in a search for a lost Toltec cit...

El gran autor
1954
A story of passion and deceit, where love overcomes the misfortunes and finally triumphs.

Take Me in Your Arms
1954
as José
To pay off her father's debts, Rita leaves her humble fishing village in Yucatan and gets exploited by several men, including a married politician who...

Reportaje
1953
as Armando, Edmundo's chauffeur
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Sandunga para tres
1953
Three boys and three girls. First all the boys are fighting over one of the girls, then all the boys are fighting over another of the girls and yadda ...

The Net
1953
as José Luis
Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. ...

Hiawatha
1952
as Kwasind
A young Indian brave attempts to bring peace to two warring tribes.

Thunderbirds
1952
as Cpl. Ralph Mogay
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.

El enamorado
1952
as Emeterio
Martin retired from his job as a hero because of his marriage to Rosario, a beautiful and ambitious girl who passed through the workshop where he work...

Ahí viene Martín Corona
1952
as Emeterio
Martin Corona, player and womanizer, defends the underprivileged, the poor and the needy. He will have to defend a Spanish girl and her servant from t...

Mujeres de teatro
1951

The Mark of the Renegade
1951
as Miguel De Gandara
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.

Apache Drums
1951
as Pedro-Peter
A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Wyoming Mail
1950
as Indian Joe
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized ...

Coqueta
1949
as Rodolfo
Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfrie...

Lola Casanova
1949
as Coyote Iguana
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.

Rincón brujo
1949
Young peasant woman allows an army officer to woo her, as a way of drawing attention away from her father's insurgent connections... while her own aff...

Mystery in Mexico
1948
as Benny, Bartender
Insurance detective Steve Hastings is sent by his company to investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent. His first lead is the agent's fetching s...

Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948
as Aquitanian
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.