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