Gilbert Roland

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

120

Movies

115

Born: December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994
From: Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

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.

Works

115 films

Around the World in 80 Days

19566.7

The Sea Hawk

19407.2

Cheyenne Autumn

19646.7

The Bad and the Beautiful

19527.3

The Furies

19507.1

Juarez

19396.5

Barbarosa

19825.8

The Lost World

19256.7

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

19236.6

We Were Strangers

19496.3

Three Violent People

19565.9

Thunder Trail

19378.0

Complicated Women

20036.9

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

19666.1

Revolt of the Ghosts

19496.0

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

19536.0

Mystery Woman

19356.5

Ten Tall Men

19516.2

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

19525.9

The Last of the Fast Guns

19585.5

Captain Kidd

19456.3

The Wild and the Innocent

19596.3

The Mark of the Renegade

19515.7

She Done Him Wrong

19335.9

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

19998.3

That Lady

19556.6

Thunder Bay

19536.0

The Deadly Tower

19756.7

Underwater!

19555.5

The Mark of Zorro

19746.2

No Living Witness

193210.0

The Spaniard

19258.0

Call Her Savage

19325.8

Bandido!

19565.7

Malaya

19496.9

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen

19426.5

The Big Circus

19596.6

The Racers

19556.7

Caboblanco

19805.3

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

19356.1

Guns of the Timberland

19606.2

Resurrection

19316.3

The Midnight Story

19576.1

Incident on a Dark Street

19735.3

Crisis

19506.6

Islands in the Stream

19776.5

Midnight Taxi

19376.2

The Ruthless Four

19685.9

Samar

19627.0

The Other Love

19476.1

The Dude Goes West

19485.9

The Christian Licorice Store

19714.8

Bullfighter and the Lady

19516.3

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema

20026.5

Ladies Love Danger

19358.0

The Last Train from Madrid

19374.8

The Torch

19505.3

Any Gun Can Play

19676.2

Gambling on the High Seas

19405.7

The Passionate Plumber

19326.1

Life Begins

19326.2

Isle of Missing Men

19426.8

Sartana Does Not Forgive

19686.4

Between God, The Devil and a Winchester

19685.5

Riding the California Trail

19475.5

Isle Of Destiny

19405.7

The French Line

19544.4

Johnny Hamlet

19686.5

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

19555.9

Invitation to a Gunfighter

1957

My Six Convicts

19526.5

The Woman Disputed

19287.1

Yo, tú y ella

1933

The Plastic Age

19256.2

Robin Hood of Monterey

19476.1

The Reward

19656.0

Wings Up

19435.7

The Desert Hawk

19446.5

Catch Me If You Can!

19597.0

The Dove

19276.8

Rose of the Golden West

19279.0

Angels with Broken Wings

19415.3

Gateway

19387.4

Pirates of Monterey

19475.6

The Diamond Queen

19537.0

King of the Bandits

19477.0

Rangers of Fortune

19406.5

Monsieur Le Fox

19307.0

Elinor Norton

19346.5

South of Monterey

19468.0

The Black Pearl

19777.6

The Blonde Saint

192610.0

My Life with Caroline

19416.8

Beauty and the Bandit

19466.3

A Parisian Romance

19324.6

The Men in Her Life

19329.0

Glory Alley

19525.9

The Gay Cavalier

194610.0

The Woman in Room 13

19328.0

The Pacific Connection

19745.3

Camille

19273.7

The Love Mart

19278.0

Una viuda romántica

19339.0

Running Wild

197310.0

The Lady Who Lied

19259.0

Men of the North

19305.7

Our Betters

19335.4

Apache War Smoke

19525.0

High Conquest

1947

After Tonight

19336.6

Treasure of Tayopa

19744.8

New York Nights

19295.5

The Campus Flirt

19267.0

Gigolettes of Paris

19335.7

The Bohemian Life

19388.0