Gilbert Roland
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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.
Acted in
Complicated Women
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Barbarosa
1982
as Don Braulio
Cabo Blanco
1980
as Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
The Sacketts
1979
as Don Luis Alvarado
The Black Pearl
1977
Islands in the Stream
1977
as Captain Ralph
The Deadly Tower
1975
as Narrator (voice)
The Pacific Connection
1974
as Allan
The Mark of Zorro
1974
as Don Alejandro Vega
Treasure of Tayopa
1974
as Himself - Host
Running Wild
1973
as Chief Tomicito
Barnaby Jones
1973
as Juan DeVarga
Incident on a Dark Street
1973
as Dominic Leopold
Kung Fu
1972
The Christian Licorice Store
1971
as Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers
Night Gallery
1970
McCloud
1970
Medical Center
1969
Sartana Does Not Forgive
1968
as Kirchner
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
1968
as Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido
Land's End
1968
as Captain Bravo
Johnny Hamlet
1968
as Dazio
The Ruthless Four
1968
as Mason
Any Gun Can Play
1967
as Monetero
The High Chaparral
1967
as Don Domingo Montoya
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Serge Marko
The F.B.I.
1965
as Emilio Cruz
The Reward
1965
as Captain Carbajal
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
as Dull Knife
The Fugitive
1963
as Jose Anza
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Fugitive
1963
as Gus Priamos
Combat!
1962
as Boulanger
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Luis Aguilar
Samar
1962
as Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar
Guns of the Timberland
1960
as Monty Walker
The Big Circus
1959
as Zach Colino - the aerialist
The Wild and the Innocent
1959
as Paul
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958
as Miles Lang
The Midnight Story
1957
as Sylvio Malatesta
Three Violent People
1956
as Innocencio Ortega, Grand Vacaro
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Achmed Abdullah
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
Bandit!
1956
as Col. Escobar
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
1955
as Colonel Juan Castro
Gunsmoke
1955
as Lt. Julio Chavez
That Lady
1955
as Antonio Perez
Underwater!
1955
as Dominic Quesada
The Racers
1955
as Dell'Oro
December Bride
1954
The French Line
1954
as Pierre DuQuesne
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1953
as Mike Petrakis
The Diamond Queen
1953
as Baron Paul de Cabannes
Thunder Bay
1953
as Teche Bossier
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
as Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
Apache War Smoke
1952
as Peso Herrera
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
1952
as Hugo da Silva
Glory Alley
1952
as Peppi Donnato
My Six Convicts
1952
as Punch Pinero
Ten Tall Men
1951
as Corporal Luis Delgado
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Gino Bardi
The Mark of the Renegade
1951
as Don Pedro Garcia
Bullfighter and the Lady
1951
as Manolo Estrada
The Furies
1950
as Juan Herrera
Crisis
1950
as Roland Gonzales
The Torch
1950
as Father Sierra
Malaya
1949
as Romano
We Were Strangers
1949
as Guillermo Montilla
La rebelión de los fantasmas
1949
The Dude Goes West
1948
as Pecos Kid
Pirates of Monterey
1947
as Major de Roja
King of the Bandits
1947
as Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica
Robin Hood of Monterey
1947
as The Cisco Kid
High Conquest
1947
as Hugo Lanier
The Other Love
1947
as Croupier
Riding the California Trail
1947
as The Cisco Kid
Beauty and the Bandit
1946
as The Cisco Kid
South of Monterey
1946
as The Cisco Kid
The Gay Cavalier
1946
as The Cisco Kid
Captain Kidd
1945
as Jose Lorenzo
The Desert Hawk
1944
as Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother
Wings Up
1943
as Himself
Isle of Missing Men
1942
as Dan Curtis
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
1942
as Paul Gilette
My Life with Caroline
1941
as Paco Del Valle
Angels with Broken Wings
1941
as Don Pablo Vincente
Rangers of Fortune
1940
as Antonio Hernandez Sierra
The Sea Hawk
1940
as Capt. Lopez
Gambling on the High Seas
1940
as Greg Morella
Isle Of Destiny
1940
as Oliver Barton
Juarez
1939
as Colonel Miguel Lopez
Gateway
1938
as Tony Cadona
La vida bohemia
1938
as Rodolfo
Thunder Trail
1937
as Arizona Dick Ames
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
as Eduardo de Soto
Midnight Taxi
1937
as Flash Dillon
Ladies Love Danger
1935
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1935
as Self
Mystery Woman
1935
as Juan Santanda
Elinor Norton
1934
as Rene Alba
After Tonight
1933
as Capt. Rudolph Ritter
Una viuda romántica
1933
as Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González
Gigolettes of Paris
1933
as Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand
Our Betters
1933
as Pepi D'Costa
She Done Him Wrong
1933
as Serge Stanieff
Call Her Savage
1932
as Moonglow
A Parisian Romance
1932
as Victor
No Living Witness
1932
as Jerry Bennett
Life Begins
1932
as Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)
The Woman in Room 13
1932
as Victor Legrand
The men in my life
1932
as Jaime Gilman
The Passionate Plumber
1932
as Tony Lagorce
Resurrection
1931
as Prince Dmitri Nekhludov
Monsieur Le Fox
1930
Men of the North
1930
as Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox
New York Nights
1929
as Fred Deverne
The Woman Disputed
1928
as Paul Hartman
The Dove
1927
as Johnny Powell
The Love Mart
1927
as Victor Jallot
Rose of the Golden West
1927
as Juan
Camille
1927
as Armand Duval
The Blonde Saint
1926
as Annibale
The College Flirt
1926
as Graham Stearns
The Plastic Age
1925
as Carl Peters
The Lady Who Lied
1925
The Spaniard
1925
as Matador (uncredited)
The Lost World
1925
as Extra
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
as Extra (uncredited)