Gilbert Roland
1905-12-11 ( 119 years old ) in 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 2003-05-06
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl 1999-06-14
Barbarosa 1982-02-19
Caboblanco 1980-01-23
The Black Pearl 1977-08-01
Islands in the Stream 1977-03-09
The Deadly Tower 1975-10-18
The Pacific Connection 1974-11-14
The Mark of Zorro 1974-10-29
Treasure of Tayopa 1974-03-27
Running Wild 1973-08-15
Incident on a Dark Street 1973-01-13
The Christian Licorice Store 1971-11-01
Sartana Does Not Forgive 1968-10-25
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester 1968-10-07
Johnny Hamlet 1968-03-22
The Ruthless Four 1968-02-09
Any Gun Can Play 1967-09-26
The Poppy Is Also a Flower 1966-05-20
The Reward 1965-09-15
Cheyenne Autumn 1964-10-15
Samar 1962-04-11
Guns of the Timberland 1960-02-01
The Big Circus 1959-07-05
The Wild and the Innocent 1959-05-27
The Last of the Fast Guns 1958-07-01
The Midnight Story 1957-06-04
Three Violent People 1956-12-01
Around the World in Eighty Days 1956-10-17
Bandido! 1956-09-01
The Treasure of Pancho Villa 1955-10-19
That Lady 1955-03-05
Underwater! 1955-02-09
The Racers 1955-02-04
The French Line 1954-02-08
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef 1953-12-02
The Diamond Queen 1953-11-28
Thunder Bay 1953-05-21
The Bad and the Beautiful 1952-12-25
Apache War Smoke 1952-09-25
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima 1952-08-20
Glory Alley 1952-06-06
My Six Convicts 1952-03-20
Ten Tall Men 1951-10-26
The Mark of the Renegade 1951-07-24
Bullfighter and the Lady 1951-04-26
The Furies 1950-08-16
Crisis 1950-07-07
The Torch 1950-06-02
Malaya 1949-12-27
We Were Strangers 1949-04-27
La rebelión de los fantasmas 1949-02-12
The Dude Goes West 1948-05-30
Pirates of Monterey 1947-12-01
King of the Bandits 1947-11-07
Robin Hood of Monterey 1947-09-06
High Conquest 1947-06-21
The Other Love 1947-05-14
Riding the California Trail 1947-01-11
Beauty and the Bandit 1946-11-09
South of Monterey 1946-06-15
The Gay Cavalier 1946-03-30
Captain Kidd 1945-11-22
The Desert Hawk 1944-07-07
Wings Up 1943-05-27
Isle of Missing Men 1942-09-18
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen 1942-07-30
My Life with Caroline 1941-08-01
Angels with Broken Wings 1941-05-27
Rangers of Fortune 1940-09-27
The Sea Hawk 1940-08-10
Gambling on the High Seas 1940-06-22
Isle Of Destiny 1940-03-08
Juarez 1939-06-10
Gateway 1938-08-05
La vida bohemia 1938-01-01
Thunder Trail 1937-10-21
The Last Train from Madrid 1937-06-11
Midnight Taxi 1937-04-04
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara 1935-12-07
Ladies Love Danger 1935-05-03
Mystery Woman 1935-01-08
Elinor Norton 1934-11-02
After Tonight 1933-11-10
Una viuda romántica 1933-10-14
Gigolettes of Paris 1933-10-05
Our Betters 1933-03-17
She Done Him Wrong 1933-02-09
Call Her Savage 1932-11-24
A Parisian Romance 1932-10-01
No Living Witness 1932-09-13
Life Begins 1932-09-10
The Woman in Room 13 1932-05-15
The men in my life 1932-02-13
The Passionate Plumber 1932-02-06
Resurrection 1931-03-06
Monsieur Le Fox 1930-12-12
Men of the North 1930-09-27
New York Nights 1929-12-28
The Woman Disputed 1928-09-01
The Dove 1927-12-31
The Love Mart 1927-12-18
Rose of the Golden West 1927-09-25
Camille 1927-09-04
The Blonde Saint 1926-11-20
The College Flirt 1926-09-18
The Plastic Age 1925-12-15
The Lady Who Lied 1925-07-12
The Spaniard 1925-05-04
The Lost World 1925-02-02
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923-09-06

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