Gilbert Roland
Acting
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.
TV Shows(19)
The Sacketts
Don Luis Alvarado
1979
Barnaby Jones
Juan DeVarga
1973
Kung Fu
Padre Braganza
1972
Night Gallery
1970
McCloud
1970
Medical Center
1969
Land's End
Captain Bravo
1968
The High Chaparral
Don Domingo Montoya
1967
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
The F.B.I.
Emilio Cruz
1965
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Fugitive
Jose Anza
1963
Combat!
Boulanger
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Luis Aguilar
1962
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Gunsmoke
Lt. Julio Chavez
1955
December Bride
1954
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Gino Bardi
1951
Movies(114)
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1999
Barbarosa
Don Braulio
1982
Caboblanco
Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
1980
The Black Pearl
1977
Islands in the Stream
Captain Ralph
1977
The Deadly Tower
Narrator (voice)
1975
The Pacific Connection
Allan
1974
The Mark of Zorro
Don Alejandro Vega
1974
Treasure of Tayopa
Himself - Host
1974
Running Wild
Chief Tomicito
1973
Incident on a Dark Street
Dominic Leopold
1973
The Christian Licorice Store
Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers
1971
Sartana Does Not Forgive
Kirchner
1968
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido
1968
Johnny Hamlet
Dazio
1968
The Ruthless Four
Mason
1968
Any Gun Can Play
Monetero
1967
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Serge Marko
1966
The Reward
Captain Carbajal
1965
Cheyenne Autumn
Dull Knife
1964
Samar
Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar
1962
Guns of the Timberland
Monty Walker
1960
The Big Circus
Zach Colino (Aerialist)
1959
The Wild and the Innocent
Paul
1959
Catch Me If You Can!
Gilberto Ramnes
1959
The Last of the Fast Guns
Miles Lang
1958
The Midnight Story
Sylvio Malatesta
1957
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Dancer
1957
Three Violent People
Innocencio Ortega
1956
Around the World in 80 Days
Achmed Abdullah
1956
Bandido!
Col. Escobar
1956
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Colonel Juan Castro
1955
That Lady
Antonio Perez
1955
Underwater!
Dominic Quesada
1955
The Racers
Dell'Oro
1955
The French Line
Pierre DuQuesne
1954
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Mike Petrakis
1953
The Diamond Queen
Baron Paul de Cabannes
1953
Thunder Bay
Teche Bossier
1953
The Bad and the Beautiful
Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
1952
Apache War Smoke
Peso Herrera
1952
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Hugo da Silva
1952
Glory Alley
Peppi Donnato
1952
My Six Convicts
Punch Pinero
1952
Ten Tall Men
Corporal Luis Delgado
1951
The Mark of the Renegade
Don Pedro Garcia
1951
Bullfighter and the Lady
Manolo Estrada
1951
The Furies
Juan Herrera
1950
Crisis
Roland Gonzales
1950
The Torch
Father Sierra
1950
Malaya
Romano
1949
We Were Strangers
Guillermo Montilla
1949
Revolt of the Ghosts
Arturo Ruiz del Rosal
1949
The Dude Goes West
Pecos Kid
1948
Pirates of Monterey
Major de Roja
1947
King of the Bandits
Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica
1947
Robin Hood of Monterey
The Cisco Kid
1947
High Conquest
Hugo Lanier
1947
The Other Love
Croupier
1947
Riding the California Trail
The Cisco Kid
1947
Beauty and the Bandit
The Cisco Kid
1946
South of Monterey
The Cisco Kid
1946
The Gay Cavalier
The Cisco Kid
1946
Captain Kidd
Jose Lorenzo
1945
The Desert Hawk
Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother
1944
Wings Up
Himself
1943
Isle of Missing Men
Dan Curtis
1942
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Paul Gilette
1942
My Life with Caroline
Paco Del Valle
1941
Angels with Broken Wings
Don Pablo Vincente
1941
Rangers of Fortune
Antonio Hernandez Sierra
1940
The Sea Hawk
Capt. Lopez
1940
Gambling on the High Seas
Greg Morella
1940
Isle Of Destiny
Oliver Barton
1940
Juarez
Colonel Miguel Lopez
1939
Gateway
Tony Cadona
1938
The Bohemian Life
Rodolfo
1938
Thunder Trail
Arizona Dick Ames
1937
The Last Train from Madrid
Eduardo de Soto
1937
Midnight Taxi
Flash Dillon
1937
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Self
1935
Ladies Love Danger
1935
Mystery Woman
Juan Santanda
1935
Elinor Norton
Rene Alba
1934
After Tonight
Capt. Rudolph Ritter
1933
Una viuda romántica
Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González
1933
Gigolettes of Paris
Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand
1933
Our Betters
Pepi D'Costa
1933
She Done Him Wrong
Serge Stanieff
1933
Call Her Savage
Moonglow
1932
A Parisian Romance
Victor
1932
No Living Witness
Jerry Bennett
1932
Life Begins
Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)
1932
The Woman in Room 13
Victor Legrand
1932
The Men in Her Life
Jaime Gilman
1932
The Passionate Plumber
Tony Lagorce
1932
Resurrection
Prince Dmitri Nekhludov
1931
Monsieur Le Fox
1930
Men of the North
Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox
1930
New York Nights
Fred Deverne
1929
The Woman Disputed
Paul Hartman
1928
The Dove
Johnny Powell
1927
The Love Mart
Victor Jallot
1927
Rose of the Golden West
Juan
1927
Camille
Armand Duval
1927
The Blonde Saint
Annibale
1926
The Campus Flirt
Graham Stearns
1926
The Plastic Age
Carl Peters
1925
The Lady Who Lied
1925
The Spaniard
Matador (uncredited)
1925
The Lost World
Extra
1925
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Extra (uncredited)
1923