1905-12-11 Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
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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Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
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The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema | 2002-06-06 | |
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self / Various Roles (archive footage) | 1999-06-14 |
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Barbarosa | Don Braulio | 1982-02-19 |
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Caboblanco | Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez | 1980-01-23 |
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The Black Pearl | 1977-08-01 | |
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Islands in the Stream | Captain Ralph | 1977-03-09 |
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The Deadly Tower | Narrator (voice) | 1975-10-18 |
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Treasure of Tayopa | Himself - Host | 1974-03-27 |
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The Mark of Zorro | Don Alejandro Vega | 1974-10-29 |
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The Pacific Connection | Allan | 1974-11-14 |
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Incident on a Dark Street | Dominic Leopold | 1973-01-12 |
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Running Wild | Chief Tomicito | 1973-08-15 |
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The Christian Licorice Store | Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers | 1971-11-01 |
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Sonora | Kirchner | 1968-10-25 |
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Ognuno per sé | Mason | 1968-02-09 |
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Quella sporca storia nel west | Dazio | 1968-03-22 |
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Anche nel west c'era una volta Dio | Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido | 1968-10-07 |
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Vado... l'ammazzo e torno | Monetero | 1967-09-26 |
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower | Serge Marko | 1966-05-20 |
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The Reward | Captain Carbajal | 1965-09-15 |
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Cheyenne Autumn | Dull Knife | 1964-10-15 |
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Samar | Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar | 1962-04-11 |
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Guns of the Timberland | Monty Walker | 1960-02-01 |
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The Big Circus | Zach Colino (Aerialist) | 1959-07-05 |
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The Wild and the Innocent | Paul | 1959-05-27 |
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The Last of the Fast Guns | Miles Lang | 1958-07-01 |
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Invitation to a Gunfighter | Dancer | 1957-03-07 |
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The Midnight Story | Sylvio Malatesta | 1957-06-04 |
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Bandido! | Col. Escobar | 1956-09-01 |
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Three Violent People | Innocencio Ortega | 1956-12-01 |
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Around the World in Eighty Days | Achmed Abdullah | 1956-10-17 |
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That Lady | Antonio Perez | 1955-03-05 |
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The Treasure of Pancho Villa | Colonel Juan Castro | 1955-10-19 |
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The Racers | Dell'Oro | 1955-02-04 |
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Underwater! | Dominic Quesada | 1955-02-09 |
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The French Line | Pierre DuQuesne | 1954-02-08 |
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Thunder Bay | Teche Bossier | 1953-05-21 |
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The Diamond Queen | Baron Paul de Cabannes | 1953-11-28 |
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef | Mike Petrakis | 1953-12-02 |
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Glory Alley | Peppi Donnato | 1952-06-06 |
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Apache War Smoke | Peso Herrera | 1952-09-25 |
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The Bad and the Beautiful | Victor "Gaucho" Ribera | 1952-12-25 |
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My Six Convicts | Punch Pinero | 1952-03-20 |
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The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima | Hugo da Silva | 1952-08-20 |
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Ten Tall Men | Corporal Luis Delgado | 1951-10-26 |
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The Mark of the Renegade | Don Pedro Garcia | 1951-07-24 |
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Bullfighter and the Lady | Manolo Estrada | 1951-04-26 |
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The Furies | Juan Herrera | 1950-07-22 |
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The Torch | Father Sierra | 1950-06-02 |
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Crisis | Roland Gonzales | 1950-07-07 |
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We Were Strangers | Guillermo Montilla | 1949-04-27 |
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Malaya | Romano | 1949-12-27 |
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La rebelión de los fantasmas | Arturo Ruiz del Rosal | 1949-02-12 |
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The Dude Goes West | Pecos Kid | 1948-05-30 |
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Robin Hood of Monterey | The Cisco Kid | 1947-09-06 |
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Pirates of Monterey | Major de Roja | 1947-12-01 |
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The Other Love | Croupier | 1947-05-14 |
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Riding the California Trail | The Cisco Kid | 1947-01-11 |
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High Conquest | Hugo Lanier | 1947-06-21 |
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King of the Bandits | Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica | 1947-11-07 |
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The Gay Cavalier | The Cisco Kid | 1946-03-30 |
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Beauty and the Bandit | The Cisco Kid | 1946-11-09 |
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South of Monterey | The Cisco Kid | 1946-06-15 |
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Captain Kidd | Jose Lorenzo | 1945-11-22 |
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The Desert Hawk | Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother | 1944-07-07 |
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Wings Up | Himself | 1943-05-27 |
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Isle of Missing Men | Dan Curtis | 1942-09-18 |
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen | Paul Gilette | 1942-07-30 |
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My Life with Caroline | Paco Del Valle | 1941-08-01 |
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Angels with Broken Wings | Don Pablo Vincente | 1941-05-27 |
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Rangers of Fortune | Antonio Hernandez Sierra | 1940-09-27 |
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Gambling on the High Seas | Greg Morella | 1940-06-22 |
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Isle Of Destiny | Oliver Barton | 1940-03-08 |
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The Sea Hawk | Capt. Lopez | 1940-08-10 |
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Juarez | Colonel Miguel Lopez | 1939-06-10 |
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Gateway | Tony Cadona | 1938-08-05 |
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La vida bohemia | Rodolfo | 1938-01-01 |
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Midnight Taxi | Flash Dillon | 1937-04-04 |
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The Last Train from Madrid | Eduardo de Soto | 1937-06-25 |
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Thunder Trail | Arizona Dick Ames | 1937-10-21 |
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La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Self | 1935-12-07 |
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Mystery Woman | Juan Santanda | 1935-01-08 |
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Ladies Love Danger | 1935-05-03 | |
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Elinor Norton | Rene Alba | 1934-11-02 |
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Gigolettes of Paris | Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand | 1933-10-05 |
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Una viuda romántica | Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González | 1933-10-14 |
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After Tonight | Capt. Rudolph Ritter | 1933-11-10 |
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She Done Him Wrong | Serge Stanieff | 1933-02-09 |
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Our Betters | Pepi D'Costa | 1933-03-17 |
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The Passionate Plumber | Tony Lagorce | 1932-02-06 |
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No Living Witness | Jerry Bennett | 1932-09-13 |
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Hombres de mi vida | Jaime Gilman | 1932-02-13 |
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Call Her Savage | Moonglow | 1932-11-24 |
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A Parisian Romance | Victor | 1932-10-01 |
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The Woman in Room 13 | Victor Legrand | 1932-05-15 |
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Life Begins | Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited) | 1932-09-10 |
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Resurrección | Prince Dmitri Nekhludov | 1931-03-06 |
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Men of the North | Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox | 1930-09-27 |
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Monsieur Le Fox | 1930-12-12 | |
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New York Nights | Fred Deverne | 1929-12-28 |
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The Woman Disputed | Paul Hartman | 1928-09-01 |
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Camille | Armand Duval | 1927-09-04 |
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Rose of the Golden West | Juan | 1927-09-25 |
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The Dove | Johnny Powell | 1927-12-31 |
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The Love Mart | Victor Jallot | 1927-12-18 |
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The Campus Flirt | Graham Stearns | 1926-09-18 |
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The Blonde Saint | Annibale | 1926-11-20 |
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The Lost World | Extra | 1925-02-02 |
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The Lady Who Lied | 1925-07-12 | |
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The Spaniard | Matador (uncredited) | 1925-05-04 |
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The Plastic Age | Carl Peters | 1925-12-15 |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Extra (uncredited) | 1923-09-06 |
