Ramon Novarro
Acting • Born 1899-02-05 – Died 1968-10-30
Biography
Mexico native Ramon Novarro (born Jose Ramon Gil Samaniego, February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968) was a Hollywood film and television actor. He was a major star and matinee idol of 1920s Silent through early 1930s "talkies" cinema.
Filmography
70 credits
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Movie • 1925
Judah Ben-Hur
Mata Hari
Movie • 1931
Lt. Alexis Rosanoff
Heller in Pink Tights
Movie • 1960
De Leon
Crisis
Movie • 1950
Colonel Adragon
We Were Strangers
Movie • 1949
Chief
The Big Steal
Movie • 1949
Inspector General Ortega
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Movie • 1928
Prince Karl Heinrich
The Cat and the Fiddle
Movie • 1934
Victor Florescu
The Hostage
Movie • 1917
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Self (archive footage)
Across to Singapore
Movie • 1928
Joel Shore
The Prisoner of Zenda
Movie • 1922
Rupert of Hentzau
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Comedy of Happiness
Movie • 1940
Félix
The Outriders
Movie • 1950
Don Antonio Chaves
Son of India
Movie • 1931
Karim
The Pagan
Movie • 1929
Henry Shoesmith Jr.
The Red Lily
Movie • 1924
Jean Leonnec
Huddle
Movie • 1932
Tony
Laughing Boy
Movie • 1934
Laughing Boy
Devil-May-Care
Movie • 1929
Armand de Treville
The Son-Daughter
Movie • 1932
Tom Lee
The Night Is Young
Movie • 1935
Archduke Paul 'Gustl' Gustave
Call of the Flesh
Movie • 1930
Juan de Dios
Lovers
Movie • 1927
José
The Barbarian
Movie • 1933
Jamil El Shehab
In Gay Madrid
Movie • 1930
Ricardo
Where the Pavement Ends
Movie • 1923
Motauri
The Christmas Party
Movie • 1931
Himself
Mr. Barnes of New York
Movie • 1922
Antonio
The Little American
Movie • 1917
Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Movie • 1921
Guest at Ball (uncredited)
The Road to Romance
Movie • 1927
José Armando
Sevilla de mis Amores
Movie • 1930
Juan de Dios Carbajal
Daybreak
Movie • 1931
Willi Kasder
The Flying Fleet
Movie • 1929
Tommy Winslow
Scaramouche
Movie • 1923
André-Louis Moreau, alias 'Scaramouche'
The Sheik Steps Out
Movie • 1937
Ahmed Ben Nesib
A Desperate Adventure
Movie • 1938
André Friezan
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Movie • 1960
Self
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Movie • 1931
Self
The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
Movie • 1942
Juan Diego
1925 Studio Tour
Movie • 1925
Self
A Lover's Oath
Movie • 1925
Ben Ali
Joan the Woman
Movie • 1916
Starving Peasant
The Woman God Forgot
Movie • 1917
Aztec Man (uncredited)
The Arab
Movie • 1924
Jamil Abdullah Azam
A Small Town Idol
Movie • 1921
Dancer (uncredited)
Twenty Years After
Movie • 1944
(archive footage)
Forbidden Hours
Movie • 1928
His Majesty, Michael IV
Thy Name Is Woman
Movie • 1924
Juan Ricardo
Man-Woman-Marriage
Movie • 1921
Dancer
Trifling Women
Movie • 1922
Henri / Ivan de Maupin
The Bible According to Hollywood
Movie • 1994
Self
A Small Town Idol
Movie • 1939
Dancer
A Certain Young Man
Movie • 1928
Lord Gerald Brinsley
The Midshipman
Movie • 1925
Dick Randall
The Goat
Movie • 1918
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Movie • 2002
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie • 1988
The Jaguar's Claws
Movie • 1917
Bandit (uncredited)
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
Movie • 1992
This Is Francis X. Bushman
Movie • 2021
Judah Ben-Hur (Archive Footage)
Combat!
TV • 1962
Count De Roy
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Father Tasso
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Padre Guillermo
Thriller
TV • 1960
Maestro Giuliano
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Gasparo Paolini
The Big Party
TV • 1959
Self