Armando

Armando may refer to:

Armando (given name)

Armando (artist), the name used by Dutch artist Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd

Armando (album), studio album by rapper Pitbull

Armando (Planet of the Apes), a fictional character

List of Planet of the Apes characters

The Planet of the Apes franchise features many characters that appear in one or more works.

Main characters

Caesar

Original films

Milo, better known as Caesar, is a fictional character in the Planet of the Apes franchise. He is named after Julius Caesar.

He appeared as a baby in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, voiced by Walker Edmiston.

He is the leader (and chief instigator) of the ape revolution in the fourth installment, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.

He is the ruler of Ape City in the fifth film, Battle for the Planet of the Apes. He was portrayed in both movies by the late actor Roddy McDowall, who had also played his father Cornelius in both Planet of the Apes and Escape from the Planet of the Apes.

He does not appear in the 2001 remake, Planet of the Apes.

The character of Caesar has had major participation in original film series and the reboot film series.

In Escape from the Planet of the Apes

He is the son of talking chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira. Originally named Milo after Dr. Milo, who travelled back in time with Cornelius and Zira to the Earth of Taylor's era, he was reared by his human foster father Armando, a traveling circus owner who gave Cornelius and Zira sanctuary when Zira went into labor in the final act of Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Before departing, Zira switched the infant Milo with a young chimpanzee recently born to Armando's primitive chimpanzee, Heloise. Heloise's baby was killed, along with Zira, by the human Dr. Otto Hasslein. After Cornelius kills Hasslein, he is shot by a Marine Corps sniper. Milo speaks his first word, "Mama", at the very end of the film. His false identity secure, Milo grew up as a mute acrobat.

Armando (artist)

Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd (born September 18, 1929), known as Armando, is a Dutch painter, sculptor and writer.

Biography

Armando was born in Amsterdam, and as child moved to Amersfoort. There he saw, during the German occupation of the Netherlands, how the Nazis set up a "transition camp" for prisoners who were to be sent to concentration camps. The suffering of the victims and the cruelty of the Nazi camp guards, so near his home, influenced him for the rest of his life. After the liberation (1945), he studied art history at the University of Amsterdam.

His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Le Canard, Amsterdam, in 1954. At this time he also started to write poetry. He was influenced by the CoBrA art group, and made abstract drawings—with his left hand, in the dark. He was also influenced by Dubuffet and Jean Fautrier, producing thickly impastoed paintings.

In 1958 he was one of the founder-members of the Nederlandse Informele Groep (Informelen), with the painters Kees van Bohemen, Jan Henderikse, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven and others.