Pedro de Cordoba
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 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. 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 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.