Gilbert Roland
Acting • Born 1905-12-11 – Died 1994-05-15
Biography
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.
Filmography
133 credits
Monsieur Le Fox
Movie • 1930
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
Achmed Abdullah
The Lost World
Movie • 1925
Extra
Any Gun Can Play
Movie • 1967
Monetero
Caboblanco
Movie • 1980
Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Movie • 1953
Mike Petrakis
Barbarosa
Movie • 1982
Don Braulio
The Bad and the Beautiful
Movie • 1952
Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
The Sea Hawk
Movie • 1940
Capt. Lopez
The Furies
Movie • 1950
Juan Herrera
Cheyenne Autumn
Movie • 1964
Dull Knife
Thunder Bay
Movie • 1953
Teche Bossier
She Done Him Wrong
Movie • 1933
Serge Stanieff
Captain Kidd
Movie • 1945
Jose Lorenzo
My Six Convicts
Movie • 1952
Punch Pinero
Malaya
Movie • 1949
Romano
Bandido!
Movie • 1956
Col. Escobar
The Wild and the Innocent
Movie • 1959
Paul
Resurrection
Movie • 1931
Prince Dmitri Nekhludov
The Men in Her Life
Movie • 1932
Jaime Gilman
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Movie • 1952
Hugo da Silva
My Life with Caroline
Movie • 1941
Paco Del Valle
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Movie • 1942
Paul Gilette
Crisis
Movie • 1950
Roland Gonzales
We Were Strangers
Movie • 1949
Guillermo Montilla
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1923
Extra (uncredited)
The French Line
Movie • 1954
Pierre DuQuesne
Islands in the Stream
Movie • 1977
Captain Ralph
The Passionate Plumber
Movie • 1932
Tony Lagorce
The Midnight Story
Movie • 1957
Sylvio Malatesta
Johnny Hamlet
Movie • 1968
Dazio
Three Violent People
Movie • 1956
Innocencio Ortega
The Deadly Tower
Movie • 1975
Narrator (voice)
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
Movie • 1968
Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido
The Ruthless Four
Movie • 1968
Mason
Camille
Movie • 1927
Armand Duval
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Movie • 1955
Colonel Juan Castro
Juarez
Movie • 1939
Colonel Miguel Lopez
Bullfighter and the Lady
Movie • 1951
Manolo Estrada
Treasure of Tayopa
Movie • 1974
Himself - Host
Call Her Savage
Movie • 1932
Moonglow
The Dove
Movie • 1927
Johnny Powell
Underwater!
Movie • 1955
Dominic Quesada
The Other Love
Movie • 1947
Croupier
The Reward
Movie • 1965
Captain Carbajal
Apache War Smoke
Movie • 1952
Peso Herrera
Ten Tall Men
Movie • 1951
Corporal Luis Delgado
The Mark of Zorro
Movie • 1974
Don Alejandro Vega
Sartana Does Not Forgive
Movie • 1968
Kirchner
The Last of the Fast Guns
Movie • 1958
Miles Lang
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Movie • 1966
Serge Marko
The Big Circus
Movie • 1959
Zach Colino (Aerialist)
New York Nights
Movie • 1929
Fred Deverne
The Racers
Movie • 1955
Dell'Oro
That Lady
Movie • 1955
Antonio Perez
The Diamond Queen
Movie • 1953
Baron Paul de Cabannes
Isle of Missing Men
Movie • 1942
Dan Curtis
Gigolettes of Paris
Movie • 1933
Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand
Gambling on the High Seas
Movie • 1940
Greg Morella
Mystery Woman
Movie • 1935
Juan Santanda
A Parisian Romance
Movie • 1932
Victor
The Torch
Movie • 1950
Father Sierra
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie • 1999
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Ladies Love Danger
Movie • 1935
Glory Alley
Movie • 1952
Peppi Donnato
After Tonight
Movie • 1933
Capt. Rudolph Ritter
Isle Of Destiny
Movie • 1940
Oliver Barton
The Last Train from Madrid
Movie • 1937
Eduardo de Soto
King of the Bandits
Movie • 1947
Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica
Samar
Movie • 1962
Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar
Beauty and the Bandit
Movie • 1946
The Cisco Kid
The Gay Cavalier
Movie • 1946
The Cisco Kid
South of Monterey
Movie • 1946
The Cisco Kid
Riding the California Trail
Movie • 1947
The Cisco Kid
Robin Hood of Monterey
Movie • 1947
The Cisco Kid
Guns of the Timberland
Movie • 1960
Monty Walker
The Mark of the Renegade
Movie • 1951
Don Pedro Garcia
Men of the North
Movie • 1930
Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox
The Dude Goes West
Movie • 1948
Pecos Kid
Angels with Broken Wings
Movie • 1941
Don Pablo Vincente
The Spaniard
Movie • 1925
Matador (uncredited)
Life Begins
Movie • 1932
Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)
The Woman Disputed
Movie • 1928
Paul Hartman
Gateway
Movie • 1938
Tony Cadona
Midnight Taxi
Movie • 1937
Flash Dillon
Our Betters
Movie • 1933
Pepi D'Costa
Una viuda romántica
Movie • 1933
Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González
Pirates of Monterey
Movie • 1947
Major de Roja
Rangers of Fortune
Movie • 1940
Antonio Hernandez Sierra
Thunder Trail
Movie • 1937
Arizona Dick Ames
The Pacific Connection
Movie • 1974
Allan
The Woman in Room 13
Movie • 1932
Victor Legrand
Revolt of the Ghosts
Movie • 1949
Arturo Ruiz del Rosal
The Campus Flirt
Movie • 1926
Graham Stearns
The Christian Licorice Store
Movie • 1971
Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers
The Bohemian Life
Movie • 1938
Rodolfo
Incident on a Dark Street
Movie • 1973
Dominic Leopold
The Black Pearl
Movie • 1977
No Living Witness
Movie • 1932
Jerry Bennett
Rose of the Golden West
Movie • 1927
Juan
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
The Plastic Age
Movie • 1925
Carl Peters
The Love Mart
Movie • 1927
Victor Jallot
Elinor Norton
Movie • 1934
Rene Alba
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Movie • 1935
Self
The Desert Hawk
Movie • 1944
Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother
Wings Up
Movie • 1943
Himself
Running Wild
Movie • 1973
Chief Tomicito
High Conquest
Movie • 1947
Hugo Lanier
The Blonde Saint
Movie • 1926
Annibale
The Lady Who Lied
Movie • 1925
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Movie • 2002
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Movie • 1957
Dancer
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Padre Braganza
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Emilio Cruz
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Lt. Julio Chavez
Combat!
TV • 1962
Boulanger
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV • 1963
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Jose Anza
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Don Domingo Montoya
McCloud
TV • 1970
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Gino Bardi
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
The Sacketts
TV • 1979
Don Luis Alvarado
Land's End
TV • 1968
Captain Bravo
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Gus Priamos
December Bride
TV • 1954
Garrison's Gorillas
TV • 1967
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Juan DeVarga
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Luis Aguilar