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.
Complicated Women
Self (archive footage)
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Barbarosa
Don Braulio
Caboblanco
Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
The Black Pearl
Islands in the Stream
Captain Ralph
The Deadly Tower
Narrator (voice)
The Pacific Connection
Allan
The Mark of Zorro
Don Alejandro Vega
Treasure of Tayopa
Himself - Host
Running Wild
Chief Tomicito
Incident on a Dark Street
Dominic Leopold
The Christian Licorice Store
Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers
Sartana Does Not Forgive
Kirchner
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido
Johnny Hamlet
Dazio
The Ruthless Four
Mason
Any Gun Can Play
Monetero
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Serge Marko
The Reward
Captain Carbajal
Cheyenne Autumn
Dull Knife
Samar
Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar
Guns of the Timberland
Monty Walker
The Big Circus
Zach Colino (Aerialist)
The Wild and the Innocent
Paul
The Last of the Fast Guns
Miles Lang
The Midnight Story
Sylvio Malatesta
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Dancer
Three Violent People
Innocencio Ortega
Around the World in 80 Days
Achmed Abdullah
Bandido!
Col. Escobar
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Colonel Juan Castro
That Lady
Antonio Perez
Underwater!
Dominic Quesada
The Racers
Dell'Oro
The French Line
Pierre DuQuesne
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Mike Petrakis
The Diamond Queen
Baron Paul de Cabannes
Thunder Bay
Teche Bossier
The Bad and the Beautiful
Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
Apache War Smoke
Peso Herrera
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Hugo da Silva
Glory Alley
Peppi Donnato
My Six Convicts
Punch Pinero
Ten Tall Men
Corporal Luis Delgado
The Mark of the Renegade
Don Pedro Garcia
Bullfighter and the Lady
Manolo Estrada
The Furies
Juan Herrera
Crisis
Roland Gonzales
The Torch
Father Sierra
Malaya
Romano
We Were Strangers
Guillermo Montilla
Revolt of the Ghosts
Arturo Ruiz del Rosal
The Dude Goes West
Pecos Kid
Pirates of Monterey
Major de Roja
King of the Bandits
Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica
Robin Hood of Monterey
The Cisco Kid
High Conquest
Hugo Lanier
The Other Love
Croupier
Riding the California Trail
The Cisco Kid
Beauty and the Bandit
The Cisco Kid
South of Monterey
The Cisco Kid
The Gay Cavalier
The Cisco Kid
Captain Kidd
Jose Lorenzo
The Desert Hawk
Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother
Wings Up
Himself
Isle of Missing Men
Dan Curtis
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
Paul Gilette
My Life with Caroline
Paco Del Valle
Angels with Broken Wings
Don Pablo Vincente
Rangers of Fortune
Antonio Hernandez Sierra
The Sea Hawk
Capt. Lopez
Gambling on the High Seas
Greg Morella
Isle Of Destiny
Oliver Barton
Juarez
Colonel Miguel Lopez
Gateway
Tony Cadona
The Bohemian Life
Rodolfo
Thunder Trail
Arizona Dick Ames
The Last Train from Madrid
Eduardo de Soto
Midnight Taxi
Flash Dillon
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Self
Ladies Love Danger
Mystery Woman
Juan Santanda
Elinor Norton
Rene Alba
After Tonight
Capt. Rudolph Ritter
Una viuda romántica
Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González
Gigolettes of Paris
Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand
Our Betters
Pepi D'Costa
She Done Him Wrong
Serge Stanieff
Call Her Savage
Moonglow
A Parisian Romance
Victor
No Living Witness
Jerry Bennett
Life Begins
Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)
The Woman in Room 13
Victor Legrand
The Men in Her Life
Jaime Gilman
The Passionate Plumber
Tony Lagorce
Resurrection
Prince Dmitri Nekhludov
Monsieur Le Fox
Men of the North
Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox
New York Nights
Fred Deverne
The Woman Disputed
Paul Hartman
The Dove
Johnny Powell
The Love Mart
Victor Jallot
Rose of the Golden West
Juan
Camille
Armand Duval
The Blonde Saint
Annibale
The Campus Flirt
Graham Stearns
The Plastic Age
Carl Peters
The Lady Who Lied
The Spaniard
Matador (uncredited)
The Lost World
Extra
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Extra (uncredited)