Armand Cortez on AllMovie

A former violinist and a leading man for such diverse Broadway luminaries as musical comedy star Fritzi Scheff and tragedienne Lenore Ulric, dark and swarthy-looking French actor Armand Cortez (or, as it was sometimes spelled, Cortes) played numerous villains in the silent era, from the 1916 serial The Yellow Menace to the 1927 farce Rubber Heels. Mostly playing bit parts in sound films, Cortez is perhaps best remembered as Hamid, the wise man in the 1941 serial Adventures of Captain Marvel.