Biographies: Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez - Actor

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An American actor, born in Aguilares, Texas, on May 24, 1925, as Ramiro Gonzalez-Gonzalez to a Mexican-American father who worked as a trumpet player and a Spanish dancer mother. Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez married Leandra Gonzalez (1942-2006) and had 3 children. He received a star on the Walk of Fame in 2008. Among his most important works are The High and the Mighty (1954), Rio Bravo (1959), The Love Bug (1968), and Lust in the Dust (1985). He remained illiterate throughout his life, and during World War II, Pedro worked as a driver in the army, and in the late forties, his parents retired from work, and he found himself working in comedy for Spanish-speaking audiences until he met the comedian Groucho Marx (of the Marx Brothers), who gave him a supporting role in the series You Bet Your life (1950). John Wayne picked him up to sign a contract with him in his company for more than two decades in which he provided supporting roles of Mexican characters.

• 17 March 2022
• Dalia Saad