Armando Silvestre, a busy actor in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema who appeared with Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine in , with Yul Brynner in and with Burt Lancaster in , has died. He was 98. Silvestre died June 2 in Coronado, California, a representative from the Aztlan Mortuary in nearby La Mesa told .
The powerfully built Silvestre made scores of films in Mexico, among them (1952), (1953), (1955) with Silvia Pinal, (1956), (1960), (1963), (1974) and (1974). He excelled in Westerns and action adventure movies early in his career en route to compiling more than 200 credits on IMDb. Armando Silvestre Carrascosa was born in San Diego on Jan.
28, 1926, and raised in Tijuana. His younger brother was Eduardo Silvestre, winner of the Mr. Universe contest in 1959.
He left college to become a bullfighter, but after being gored, opted to pursue acting. Silvestre appeared in the 1948 films , starring Johnny Weissmuller, and , directed by Robert Wise, then landed a leading role in (1949), a Western made in his home country. Other early U.
S. credits included (1950) and (1951) — both starring Stephen McNally — (1951), starring Ricardo Montalbán, Cyd Charisse and Gilbert Roland; (1952); and (1954), starring Peggie Castle. He later showed up in such other American films as (1960), starring Richard Baseheart; (1962), starring Chuck Connors; (1966), starring and Glenn Ford; and (1978), starring Anthony Quinn and Dolores del Rio.
And he guest-starred on American TV series like , , .
