---
name: "Art Aragon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/art-aragon"
fi1m_id: "art-aragon"
imdb_id: "nm0032734"
tmdb_id: 136334
wikidata_id: "Q263394"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 November 1927"
died: "25 March 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:37:15.740169+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Art Aragon

## Identity

Art Aragon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/art-aragon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** art-aragon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0032734
- **TMDB ID:** 136334
- **Wikidata ID:** Q263394
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Aragon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263394, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032734/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136334

Actor. Born 13 November 1927 in Belen, New Mexico, USA. Died 25 March 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 November 1927, Belen, New Mexico, USA
- **Died:** 25 March 2008
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 72 (1), 1970s 73 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Aragon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263394, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032734/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136334

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Fat City*](https://film.one/film/fat-city.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Art Aragon was an American actor and professional boxer. Born in Belen, New Mexico, he fought as a lightweight from 1944 to 1960 under the nickname "The Golden Boy" and retired with a record of 90 wins and 20 losses.

He began acting in the early 1950s and appeared in films such as *To Hell and Back* (1955) and *Off Limits* (1953). His final feature film role was as Babe in John Huston's *Fat City* (1972).

Aragon died in Northridge, California, in 2008.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com, boxrec.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *Fat City* (1972), Fi1m 73, as Babe — [page](https://film.one/film/fat-city.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Ladies Man* (1961), Fi1m 72, as Man (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ladies-man.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Angel on My Shoulder* (1980), Actor
- *Fat City* (1972), as Babe — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/fat-city.md)
- *The Ladies Man* (1961), as Man (uncredited) — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ladies-man.md)
- *World in My Corner* (1956), as Fighter
- *To Hell and Back* (1955), Actor
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Nick Dorso
- *Off Limits* (1952), as Art Aragon

## Gallery

- ![American boxer Art Aragon (1951)](https://film.one/media/person/3907560/gallery-5c59f09c2f7a.jpg) American boxer Art Aragon (1951) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Art_Aragon_1951.jpg/1280px-Art_Aragon_1951.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![American boxer Art Aragon (1950)](https://film.one/media/person/3907560/gallery-959405eb2935.jpg) American boxer Art Aragon (1950) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Art_Aragon_1950_%285%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Art Aragon rests after a fight](https://film.one/media/person/3907560/gallery-ef7faa292fad.jpg) Art Aragon rests after a fight — Los Angeles Daily News, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Art_Aragon_after_a_fight.jpg/1280px-Art_Aragon_after_a_fight.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Art Aragon](https://film.one/media/person/3907560/gallery-bd5b598c2ad6.jpg) Art Aragon — Los Angeles Daily News, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Art_Aragon.jpg/1280px-Art_Aragon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![American boxer Art Aragon (1950)](https://film.one/media/person/3907560/gallery-2ba15ca316db.jpg) American boxer Art Aragon (1950) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Art_Aragon_1950_%283%29.jpg/1280px-Art_Aragon_1950_%283%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![American boxer Art Aragon (1950)](https://film.one/media/person/3907560/gallery-8404e8c6c678.jpg) American boxer Art Aragon (1950) — Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Art_Aragon_1950_%287%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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