墨西哥电影演员，生于瓜那华托。早年入伍，升到少尉。因为喜爱艺术，退伍去学习唱歌，在参加了几次小型演出后到纽约碰运气，在一家夜总会做节目报幕员，被制片人贡萨洛·瓦莱拉发现，1937年他在《魔鬼的教母》一片中担任了个小角色。返回墨西哥后，内格莱特被导演何塞里托·罗德里盖斯看中，1941年让他在《咳，哈里斯科，你别多嘴！》一片中担任主角。第二年，他又在墨西哥第一部彩色片《在哈里斯科这样相爱》中担任主角，名声迅速传遍拉丁美洲。
Born in Mexican revolution times, Pedro Armendáriz was the first child of Mexican Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and American Adele Hastings. He was raised in Churubusco, then a suburb of Mexico City, before the family traveled to Laredo, Texas. They lived there until 1921, the year Armendáriz' parents died. His uncle Francisco took charge of his education, and young Pedro went to the Polytechnic Institute of San Luis Obispo, California. There, he studied business and journalism. He graduated in 1931 and returned to Mexico City where he found work as a railroad employee, insurance salesman and tourist guide. He was discovered by director Miguel Zacarías when Armendáriz was reciting Hamlet's monologue (to be or not to be) to an American tourist in a cafeteria.
