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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 Rol…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Gilbert Roland's Filmography
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Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Barbarosa
as Don Braulio
Caboblanco
as Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
The Black Pearl
Islands in the Stream
as Captain Ralph
The Deadly Tower
as Narrator (voice)
The Pacific Connection
as Allan
The Mark of Zorro
as Don Alejandro Vega
Treasure of Tayopa
as Himself - Host
Running Wild
as Chief Tomicito
Incident on a Dark Street
as Dominic Leopold
The Christian Licorice Store
as Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers
Sartana Does Not Forgive
as Kirchner
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
as Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido
Johnny Hamlet
as Dazio
The Ruthless Four
as Mason
Any Gun Can Play
as Monetero
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
as Serge Marko
The Reward
as Captain Carbajal
Cheyenne Autumn
as Dull Knife
Samar
as Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar
Guns of the Timberland
as Monty Walker
The Big Circus
as Zach Colino (Aerialist)
The Wild and the Innocent
as Paul
Catch Me If You Can!
as Gilberto Ramnes
The Last of the Fast Guns
as Miles Lang
The Midnight Story
as Sylvio Malatesta
Invitation to a Gunfighter
as Dancer
Three Violent People
as Innocencio Ortega
Around the World in 80 Days
as Achmed Abdullah
Bandido!
as Col. Escobar
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
as Colonel Juan Castro
That Lady
as Antonio Perez
Underwater!
as Dominic Quesada
The Racers
as Dell'Oro
The French Line
as Pierre DuQuesne
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
as Mike Petrakis
The Diamond Queen
as Baron Paul de Cabannes
Thunder Bay
as Teche Bossier
The Bad and the Beautiful
as Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
Apache War Smoke
as Peso Herrera
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
as Hugo da Silva
Glory Alley
as Peppi Donnato
My Six Convicts
as Punch Pinero
Ten Tall Men
as Corporal Luis Delgado
The Mark of the Renegade
as Don Pedro Garcia
Bullfighter and the Lady
as Manolo Estrada
The Furies
as Juan Herrera
Crisis
as Roland Gonzales
The Torch
as Father Sierra
Malaya
as Romano
We Were Strangers
as Guillermo Montilla
Revolt of the Ghosts
as Arturo Ruiz del Rosal
The Dude Goes West
as Pecos Kid
Pirates of Monterey
as Major de Roja
King of the Bandits
as Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica
Robin Hood of Monterey
as The Cisco Kid
High Conquest
as Hugo Lanier
The Other Love
as Croupier
Riding the California Trail
as The Cisco Kid
Beauty and the Bandit
as The Cisco Kid
South of Monterey
as The Cisco Kid
The Gay Cavalier
as The Cisco Kid
Captain Kidd
as Jose Lorenzo
The Desert Hawk
as Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother
Wings Up
as Himself
Isle of Missing Men
as Dan Curtis
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
as Paul Gilette
My Life with Caroline
as Paco Del Valle
Angels with Broken Wings
as Don Pablo Vincente
Rangers of Fortune
as Antonio Hernandez Sierra
The Sea Hawk
as Capt. Lopez
Gambling on the High Seas
as Greg Morella
Isle Of Destiny
as Oliver Barton
Juarez
as Colonel Miguel Lopez
Gateway
as Tony Cadona
The Bohemian Life
as Rodolfo
Thunder Trail
as Arizona Dick Ames
The Last Train from Madrid
as Eduardo de Soto
Midnight Taxi
as Flash Dillon
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
as Self
Ladies Love Danger
Mystery Woman
as Juan Santanda
Elinor Norton
as Rene Alba
Yo, tú y ella
After Tonight
as Capt. Rudolph Ritter
No Poster
Una viuda romántica
as Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González
Gigolettes of Paris
as Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand
Our Betters
as Pepi D'Costa
She Done Him Wrong
as Serge Stanieff
Call Her Savage
as Moonglow
No Poster
A Parisian Romance
as Victor
No Living Witness
as Jerry Bennett
Life Begins
as Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)
The Woman in Room 13
as Victor Legrand
The Men in Her Life
as Jaime Gilman
The Passionate Plumber
as Tony Lagorce
Resurrection
as Prince Dmitri Nekhludov
No Poster
Monsieur Le Fox
Men of the North
as Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox
New York Nights
as Fred Deverne
The Woman Disputed
as Paul Hartman
The Dove
as Johnny Powell
The Love Mart
as Victor Jallot
Rose of the Golden West
as Juan
Camille
as Armand Duval
The Blonde Saint
as Annibale
The Campus Flirt
as Graham Stearns
The Plastic Age
as Carl Peters
The Lady Who Lied
The Spaniard
as Matador (uncredited)
The Lost World
as Extra
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Extra (uncredited)