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.
Fotos
Películas (115)
Complicated Women
2003 · Self (archive footage)
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999 · Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Barbarosa
1982 · Don Braulio
Caboblanco
1980 · Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
The Black Pearl
1977
Islands in the Stream
1977 · Captain Ralph
The Deadly Tower
1975 · Narrator (voice)
The Pacific Connection
1974 · Allan
The Mark of Zorro
1974 · Don Alejandro Vega
Treasure of Tayopa
1974 · Himself - Host
Running Wild
1973 · Chief Tomicito
Incident on a Dark Street
1973 · Dominic Leopold
The Christian Licorice Store
1971 · Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers
Sartana Does Not Forgive
1968 · Kirchner
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
1968 · Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido
Johnny Hamlet
1968 · Dazio
The Ruthless Four
1968 · Mason
Any Gun Can Play
1967 · Monetero
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966 · Serge Marko
The Reward
1965 · Captain Carbajal
Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · Dull Knife
Samar
1962 · Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar
Guns of the Timberland
1960 · Monty Walker
The Big Circus
1959 · Zach Colino (Aerialist)
The Wild and the Innocent
1959 · Paul
Catch Me If You Can!
1959 · Gilberto Ramnes
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958 · Miles Lang
The Midnight Story
1957 · Sylvio Malatesta
Invitation to a Gunfighter
1957 · Dancer
Three Violent People
1956 · Innocencio Ortega
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Achmed Abdullah
Bandido!
1956 · Col. Escobar
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
1955 · Colonel Juan Castro
That Lady
1955 · Antonio Perez
Underwater!
1955 · Dominic Quesada
The Racers
1955 · Dell'Oro
The French Line
1954 · Pierre DuQuesne
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1953 · Mike Petrakis
The Diamond Queen
1953 · Baron Paul de Cabannes
Thunder Bay
1953 · Teche Bossier
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 · Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
Apache War Smoke
1952 · Peso Herrera
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
1952 · Hugo da Silva
Glory Alley
1952 · Peppi Donnato
My Six Convicts
1952 · Punch Pinero
Ten Tall Men
1951 · Corporal Luis Delgado
The Mark of the Renegade
1951 · Don Pedro Garcia
Bullfighter and the Lady
1951 · Manolo Estrada
The Furies
1950 · Juan Herrera
Crisis
1950 · Roland Gonzales
The Torch
1950 · Father Sierra
Malaya
1949 · Romano
We Were Strangers
1949 · Guillermo Montilla
Revolt of the Ghosts
1949 · Arturo Ruiz del Rosal
The Dude Goes West
1948 · Pecos Kid
Pirates of Monterey
1947 · Major de Roja
King of the Bandits
1947 · Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica, Additional Dialogue
Robin Hood of Monterey
1947 · The Cisco Kid, Additional Dialogue
High Conquest
1947 · Hugo Lanier
The Other Love
1947 · Croupier
Riding the California Trail
1947 · The Cisco Kid
Beauty and the Bandit
1946 · The Cisco Kid, Additional Dialogue
South of Monterey
1946 · The Cisco Kid
The Gay Cavalier
1946 · The Cisco Kid
Captain Kidd
1945 · Jose Lorenzo
The Desert Hawk
1944 · Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother
Wings Up
1943 · Himself
Isle of Missing Men
1942 · Dan Curtis
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
1942 · Paul Gilette
My Life with Caroline
1941 · Paco Del Valle
Angels with Broken Wings
1941 · Don Pablo Vincente
Rangers of Fortune
1940 · Antonio Hernandez Sierra
The Sea Hawk
1940 · Capt. Lopez
Gambling on the High Seas
1940 · Greg Morella
Isle Of Destiny
1940 · Oliver Barton
Juarez
1939 · Colonel Miguel Lopez
Gateway
1938 · Tony Cadona
The Bohemian Life
1938 · Rodolfo
Thunder Trail
1937 · Arizona Dick Ames
The Last Train from Madrid
1937 · Eduardo de Soto
Midnight Taxi
1937 · Flash Dillon
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
1935 · Self
Ladies Love Danger
1935
Mystery Woman
1935 · Juan Santanda
Elinor Norton
1934 · Rene Alba
Yo, tú y ella
1933
After Tonight
1933 · Capt. Rudolph Ritter
Una viuda romántica
1933 · Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González
Gigolettes of Paris
1933 · Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand
Our Betters
1933 · Pepi D'Costa
She Done Him Wrong
1933 · Serge Stanieff
Call Her Savage
1932 · Moonglow
A Parisian Romance
1932 · Victor
No Living Witness
1932 · Jerry Bennett
Life Begins
1932 · Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)
The Woman in Room 13
1932 · Victor Legrand
The Men in Her Life
1932 · Jaime Gilman
The Passionate Plumber
1932 · Tony Lagorce
Resurrection
1931 · Prince Dmitri Nekhludov
Monsieur Le Fox
1930
Men of the North
1930 · Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox
New York Nights
1929 · Fred Deverne
The Woman Disputed
1928 · Paul Hartman
The Dove
1927 · Johnny Powell
The Love Mart
1927 · Victor Jallot
Rose of the Golden West
1927 · Juan
Camille
1927 · Armand Duval
The Blonde Saint
1926 · Annibale
The Campus Flirt
1926 · Graham Stearns
The Plastic Age
1925 · Carl Peters
The Lady Who Lied
1925
The Spaniard
1925 · Matador (uncredited)
The Lost World
1925 · Extra
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 · Extra (uncredited)
Series (19)
The Sacketts
1979 · Don Luis Alvarado
Barnaby Jones
1973 · Juan DeVarga
Kung Fu
1972 · Padre Braganza
Night Gallery
1970
McCloud
1970 · Marshal Ben Melendez
Medical Center
1969
Land's End
1968 · Captain Bravo
The High Chaparral
1967 · Don Domingo Montoya
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
The F.B.I.
1965 · Emilio Cruz
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Fugitive
1963 · Jose Anza, Gus Priamos
Combat!
1962 · Boulanger
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Luis Aguilar
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Self
Gunsmoke
1955 · Lt. Julio Chavez
December Bride
1954
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Gino Bardi