Pancho Córdova was born on August 17, 1916 in Pichucalco, Chiapas, Mexico as Francisco Amado Córdova Ramírez. He was an actor and writer, known for The Long Goodbye (1973), El águila descalza (1971) and Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970). He died on March 7, 1990 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.