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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1905-12-11

Died: 1994-05-15

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1923	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Extra (uncredited)	65
2	1925	The Lost World	Extra	67
3	1925	The Spaniard	Matador (uncredited)	0
4	1925	The Lady Who Lied		0
5	1925	The Plastic Age	Carl Peters	59
6	1926	The Campus Flirt	Graham Stearns	0
7	1926	The Blonde Saint	Annibale	0
8	1927	Camille	Armand Duval	10
9	1927	Rose of the Golden West	Juan	0
10	1927	The Love Mart	Victor Jallot	0
11	1927	The Dove	Johnny Powell	64
12	1928	The Woman Disputed	Paul Hartman	62
13	1929	New York Nights	Fred Deverne	48
14	1930	Men of the North	Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox	50
15	1930	Monsieur Le Fox		60
16	1931	Resurrection	Prince Dmitri Nekhludov	60
17	1932	The Passionate Plumber	Tony Lagorce	60
18	1932	The Men in Her Life	Jaime Gilman	0
19	1932	The Woman in Room 13	Victor Legrand	0
20	1932	Life Begins	Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)	60
21	1932	No Living Witness	Jerry Bennett	0
22	1932	A Parisian Romance	Victor	43
23	1932	Call Her Savage	Moonglow	58
24	1933	She Done Him Wrong	Serge Stanieff	58
25	1933	Our Betters	Pepi D'Costa	54
26	1933	Gigolettes of Paris	Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand	50
27	1933	Una viuda romántica	Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González	0
28	1933	After Tonight	Capt. Rudolph Ritter	63
29	1934	Elinor Norton	Rene Alba	60
30	1935	Mystery Woman	Juan Santanda	0
31	1935	Ladies Love Danger		0
32	1935	La Fiesta de Santa Barbara	Self	59
33	1937	Midnight Taxi	Flash Dillon	50
34	1937	The Last Train from Madrid	Eduardo de Soto	47
35	1937	Thunder Trail	Arizona Dick Ames	60
36	1938	The Bohemian Life	Rodolfo	0
37	1938	Gateway	Tony Cadona	65
38	1939	Juarez	Colonel Miguel Lopez	65
39	1940	Isle Of Destiny	Oliver Barton	50
40	1940	Gambling on the High Seas	Greg Morella	47
41	1940	The Sea Hawk	Capt. Lopez	71
42	1940	Rangers of Fortune	Antonio Hernandez Sierra	50
43	1941	Angels with Broken Wings	Don Pablo Vincente	37
44	1941	My Life with Caroline	Paco Del Valle	57
45	1942	Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen	Paul Gilette	55
46	1942	Isle of Missing Men	Dan Curtis	62
47	1943	Wings Up	Himself	52
48	1944	The Desert Hawk	Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother	60
49	1945	Captain Kidd	Jose Lorenzo	60
50	1946	The Gay Cavalier	The Cisco Kid	0
51	1946	South of Monterey	The Cisco Kid	0
52	1946	Beauty and the Bandit	The Cisco Kid	60
53	1947	Riding the California Trail	The Cisco Kid	40
54	1947	The Other Love	Croupier	60
55	1947	High Conquest	Hugo Lanier	0
56	1947	Robin Hood of Monterey	The Cisco Kid	59
57	1947	King of the Bandits	Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica	40
58	1947	Pirates of Monterey	Major de Roja	47
59	1948	The Dude Goes West	Pecos Kid	58
60	1949	Revolt of the Ghosts	Arturo Ruiz del Rosal	50
61	1949	We Were Strangers	Guillermo Montilla	59
62	1949	Malaya	Romano	65
63	1950	The Torch	Father Sierra	48
64	1950	Crisis	Roland Gonzales	66
65	1950	The Furies	Juan Herrera	71
66	1951	Bullfighter and the Lady	Manolo Estrada	61
67	1951	The Mark of the Renegade	Don Pedro Garcia	52
68	1951	Ten Tall Men	Corporal Luis Delgado	64
69	1952	My Six Convicts	Punch Pinero	63
70	1952	Glory Alley	Peppi Donnato	58
71	1952	The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima	Hugo da Silva	57
72	1952	Apache War Smoke	Peso Herrera	30
73	1952	The Bad and the Beautiful	Victor "Gaucho" Ribera	73
74	1953	Thunder Bay	Teche Bossier	61
75	1953	The Diamond Queen	Baron Paul de Cabannes	0
76	1953	Beneath the 12-Mile Reef	Mike Petrakis	59
77	1954	The French Line	Pierre DuQuesne	42
78	1955	The Racers	Dell'Oro	60
79	1955	Underwater!	Dominic Quesada	56
80	1955	That Lady	Antonio Perez	60
81	1955	The Treasure of Pancho Villa	Colonel Juan Castro	58
82	1956	Bandido!	Col. Escobar	57
83	1956	Around the World in Eighty Days	Achmed Abdullah	66
84	1956	Three Violent People	Innocencio Ortega, Grand Vacaro	61
85	1957	The Midnight Story	Sylvio Malatesta	61
86	1958	The Last of the Fast Guns	Miles Lang	52
87	1959	The Wild and the Innocent	Paul	63
88	1959	The Big Circus	Zach Colino (Aerialist)	65
89	1960	Guns of the Timberland	Monty Walker	61
90	1962	Samar	Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar	0
91	1964	Cheyenne Autumn	Dull Knife	67
92	1965	The Reward	Captain Carbajal	57
93	1966	The Poppy Is Also a Flower	Serge Marko	58
94	1967	Any Gun Can Play	Monetero	64
95	1968	The Ruthless Four	Mason	61
96	1968	Johnny Hamlet	Dazio	63
97	1968	Between God, The Devil and a Winchester	Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido	49
98	1968	Sartana Does Not Forgive	Kirchner	61
99	1971	The Christian Licorice Store	Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers	44
100	1973	Incident on a Dark Street	Dominic Leopold	50
101	1973	Running Wild	Chief Tomicito	0
102	1974	Treasure of Tayopa	Himself - Host	37
103	1974	The Mark of Zorro	Don Alejandro Vega	59
104	1974	The Pacific Connection	Allan	43
105	1975	The Deadly Tower	Narrator (voice)	66
106	1977	Islands in the Stream	Captain Ralph	64
107	1977	The Black Pearl		75
108	1980	Caboblanco	Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez	53
109	1982	Barbarosa	Don Braulio	59
110	1999	Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl	Self / Various Roles (archive footage)	77
111	2002	The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema		62
112	2003	Complicated Women	Self (archive footage)	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Gino Bardi	73
2	1954	December Bride		55
3	1955	Gunsmoke	Lt. Julio Chavez	66
4	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	60
5	1958	Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse		58
6	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Luis Aguilar	78
7	1962	Combat!	Boulanger	77
8	1963	The Greatest Show on Earth		50
9	1963	The Fugitive	Jose Anza	72
10	1963	The Fugitive	Gus Priamos	72
11	1965	The F.B.I.	Emilio Cruz	55
12	1967	Garrison's Gorillas		78
13	1967	The High Chaparral	Don Domingo Montoya	65
14	1968	Land's End	Captain Bravo	0
15	1969	Medical Center		61
16	1970	McCloud		71
17	1970	Night Gallery		78
18	1972	Kung Fu	Padre Braganza	77
19	1973	Barnaby Jones	Juan DeVarga	69
20	1979	The Sacketts	Don Luis Alvarado	77

Gilbert Roland

Film

Television