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Dec 11, 1905
May 15, 1994 (88)
Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Gilbert Roland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gilbert Roland (born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994) was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1952 and 1964, and inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Roland was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. When Pancho Villa took control of their town, Roland and his family fled to the United States. He lived in Texas until at age 14 he hopped on a freight train and went to Hollywood. He chose his screen name by combining the names of his favorite actors, John Gilbert and Ruth Roland. He was often cast in the stereotypical Latin lover role. Roland's first film contract was with Paramount. His first major role was in the collegiate comedy The Plastic Age (1925) together with Clara Bow, to whom he became engaged. In 1926, he played Armand in Camille opposite Norma Talmadge, with whom he was romantically involved, and they starred together in several productions. With the advent of sound films, Roland frequently appeared in Spanish language adaptations of American films, in romantic lead roles. Roland served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Beginning in the 1940s, critics began to take notice of his acting and he was praised for his supporting roles in John Huston's We Were Strangers (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). He also appeared in a series of films in the mid-1940s as the popular character "The Cisco Kid". He played Hugo, the agnostic friend of the three shepherd children in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima. In 1953, Roland played Greek-American sponge diver Mike Petrakis in the epic Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. His last film appearance was in the 1982 western Barbarosa. Roland married actress Constance Bennett in 1941. They were married until 1946 and had two daughters. His second marriage, to Guillermina Cantú in 1954, lasted until his death 40 years later. Gilbert Roland died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California in 1994, aged 88.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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2003 | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) |
1999 | Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self / Various Roles (archive footage) |
1982 | Barbarosa | Don Braulio |
1980 | Cabo Blanco | Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez |
1979 | The Sacketts | Don Luis Alvarado |
1977 | Islands in the Stream | Captain Ralph |
1977 | The Black Pearl | |
1975 | The Deadly Tower | Narrator (voice) |
1974 | The Mark of Zorro | Don Alejandro Vega |
1974 | Treasure of Tayopa | Himself - Host |
1974 | The Pacific Connection | Allan |
1973 | Barnaby Jones | Juan DeVarga |
1973 | Incident on a Dark Street | Dominic Leopold |
1973 | Running Wild | Chief Tomicito |
1972 | Kung Fu | |
1971 | The Christian Licorice Store | Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers |
1970 | Night Gallery | |
1970 | McCloud | |
1969 | Medical Center | |
1968 | Johnny Hamlet | Dazio |
1968 | The Ruthless Four | Mason |
1968 | Between God, The Devil and a Winchester | Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido |
1968 | Sartana Does Not Forgive | Kirchner |
1968 | Land's End | Captain Bravo |
1967 | The High Chaparral | Don Domingo Montoya |
1967 | Any Gun Can Play | Monetero |
1967 | Garrison's Gorillas | |
1966 | The Poppy Is Also a Flower | Serge Marko |
1965 | The F.B.I. | Emilio Cruz |
1965 | The Reward | Captain Carbajal |
1964 | Cheyenne Autumn | Dull Knife |
1963 | The Fugitive | Jose Anza |
1963 | The Fugitive | Gus Priamos |
1963 | The Greatest Show on Earth | |
1962 | Combat! | Boulanger |
1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Luis Aguilar |
1962 | Samar | Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar |
1960 | Guns of the Timberland | Monty Walker |
1959 | The Wild and the Innocent | Paul |
1959 | The Big Circus | Zach Colino - the aerialist |
1958 | The Last of the Fast Guns | Miles Lang |
1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | |
1957 | The Midnight Story | Sylvio Malatesta |
1956 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Achmed Abdullah |
1956 | Three Violent People | Innocencio Ortega, Grand Vacaro |
1956 | Bandit! | Col. Escobar |
1956 | The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | Self |
1955 | Gunsmoke | Lt. Julio Chavez |
1955 | Underwater! | Dominic Quesada |
1955 | The Treasure of Pancho Villa | Colonel Juan Castro |
1955 | That Lady | Antonio Perez |
1955 | The Racers | Dell'Oro |
1954 | The French Line | Pierre DuQuesne |
1954 | December Bride | |
1953 | Thunder Bay | Teche Bossier |
1953 | Beneath the 12-Mile Reef | Mike Petrakis |
1953 | The Diamond Queen | Baron Paul de Cabannes |
1952 | The Bad and the Beautiful | Victor "Gaucho" Ribera |
1952 | The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima | Hugo da Silva |
1952 | Glory Alley | Peppi Donnato |
1952 | My Six Convicts | Punch Pinero |
1952 | Apache War Smoke | Peso Herrera |
1951 | Ten Tall Men | Corporal Luis Delgado |
1951 | Bullfighter and the Lady | Manolo Estrada |
1951 | The Mark of the Renegade | Don Pedro Garcia |
1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Gino Bardi |
1950 | The Furies | Juan Herrera |
1950 | Crisis | Roland Gonzales |
1950 | The Torch | Father Sierra |
1949 | We Were Strangers | Guillermo Montilla |
1949 | Malaya | Romano |
1949 | La rebelión de los fantasmas | |
1948 | The Dude Goes West | Pecos Kid |
1947 | The Other Love | Croupier |
1947 | Robin Hood of Monterey | The Cisco Kid |
1947 | Pirates of Monterey | Major de Roja |
1947 | King of the Bandits | Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica |
1947 | Riding the California Trail | The Cisco Kid |
1947 | High Conquest | Hugo Lanier |
1946 | Beauty and the Bandit | The Cisco Kid |
1946 | South of Monterey | The Cisco Kid |
1946 | The Gay Cavalier | The Cisco Kid |
1945 | Captain Kidd | Jose Lorenzo |
1944 | The Desert Hawk | Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother |
1943 | Wings Up | Himself |
1942 | Isle of Missing Men | Dan Curtis |
1942 | Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen | Paul Gilette |
1941 | My Life with Caroline | Paco Del Valle |
1941 | Angels with Broken Wings | Don Pablo Vincente |
1940 | The Sea Hawk | Capt. Lopez |
1940 | Isle Of Destiny | Oliver Barton |
1940 | Gambling on the High Seas | Greg Morella |
1940 | Rangers of Fortune | Antonio Hernandez Sierra |
1939 | Juarez | Colonel Miguel Lopez |
1938 | Gateway | Tony Cadona |
1938 | La vida bohemia | Rodolfo |
1937 | The Last Train from Madrid | Eduardo de Soto |
1937 | Midnight Taxi | Flash Dillon |
1937 | Thunder Trail | Arizona Dick Ames |
1935 | La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Self |
1935 | Mystery Woman | Juan Santanda |
1935 | Ladies Love Danger | |
1934 | Elinor Norton | Rene Alba |
1933 | She Done Him Wrong | Serge Stanieff |
1933 | Our Betters | Pepi D'Costa |
1933 | After Tonight | Capt. Rudolph Ritter |
1933 | Gigolettes of Paris | Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand |
1933 | Una viuda romántica | Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González |
1932 | Call Her Savage | Moonglow |
1932 | The Passionate Plumber | Tony Lagorce |
1932 | Life Begins | Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited) |
1932 | A Parisian Romance | Victor |
1932 | The men in my life | Jaime Gilman |
1932 | The Woman in Room 13 | Victor Legrand |
1932 | No Living Witness | Jerry Bennett |
1931 | Resurrection | Prince Dmitri Nekhludov |
1930 | Men of the North | Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox |
1930 | Monsieur Le Fox | |
1929 | New York Nights | Fred Deverne |
1928 | The Woman Disputed | Paul Hartman |
1927 | The Dove | Johnny Powell |
1927 | Camille | Armand Duval |
1927 | Rose of the Golden West | Juan |
1927 | The Love Mart | Victor Jallot |
1926 | The College Flirt | Graham Stearns |
1926 | The Blonde Saint | Annibale |
1925 | The Lost World | Extra |
1925 | The Plastic Age | Carl Peters |
1925 | The Spaniard | Matador (uncredited) |
1925 | The Lady Who Lied | |
1923 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Extra (uncredited) |
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1947 | Robin Hood of Monterey | Additional Dialogue |
1947 | King of the Bandits | Additional Dialogue |
1946 | Beauty and the Bandit | Additional Dialogue |