Trivia

Brother of Eduardo Silvestre.

Dropped out of college in order to pursue a career in bullfighting, but turned to acting after being badly gored by a bull.

Lives in the United States with his wife and artistic manager Blanca Estela Limón. He was previously married to the Venezuelan Leonor Plaza.

Son of Spanish-born merchant Enrique Silvestre de Porta. A leading actor of Mexican B-movies, he has also worked in the U.S., Argentina and Italy.

After starting out helping his father sell perfumes in his store and wanting to try his luck as a bullfighter and racing car driver, his aunt, the screenwriter and writer Maria Carrascosa, was the one who suggested him to try his luck in acting, so he began his studies at the Seki Sano school.

After his participation in the wrestler film The Vengeful Shadow in 1956, the producers began to see Armando as an ideal figure for action films, and it was in this type of film that he achieved success in Mexico.

He began his movie career with small interventions in 1947, helped by the Spanish director Miguel Morayta.

At the time of his death, along with Ignacio López Tarso, he was the oldest living actor and one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

In 2010 he received a special "Silver Goddess" from the 'Association of Film Journalists of Mexico (PECIME)' for his career.

Along with his career in film, he worked on television in Mexico and the United States, where he participated in the iconic series Wonder Woman, starring Lynda Carter.