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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 11, 1905
Died
May 15, 1994
Place of Birth
Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Also Known As
- Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso
- Luis Alonso
- Гилберт Роланд
Gilbert Roland
0.7 Popularity
Biography
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
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
6.2
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
7.7
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
5.8
Don Braulio
Barbarosa
1982
5.3
Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
Caboblanco
1980
7.5
Don Luis Alvarado
The Sacketts
1979
7.5
The Black Pearl
1977
6.4
Captain Ralph
Islands in the Stream
1977
6.6
Narrator (voice)
The Deadly Tower
1975
4.3
Allan
The Pacific Connection
1974
Credits
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
6.2
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1999
7.7
Barbarosa
as Don Braulio
1982
5.8
Caboblanco
as Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
1980
5.3
The Sacketts
as Don Luis Alvarado
1979
7.5
The Black Pearl
1977
7.5
Islands in the Stream
as Captain Ralph
1977
6.4
The Deadly Tower
as Narrator (voice)
1975
6.6
The Pacific Connection
as Allan
1974
4.3
The Mark of Zorro
as Don Alejandro Vega
1974
5.9
Treasure of Tayopa
as Himself - Host
1974
3.7
Running Wild
as Chief Tomicito
1973
0.0
Barnaby Jones
as Juan DeVarga
1973
6.9
Incident on a Dark Street
as Dominic Leopold
1973
5.0
Kung Fu
as Padre Braganza
1972
7.7
The Christian Licorice Store
as Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers
1971
4.1
Night Gallery
1970
7.8
McCloud
1970
7.1
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Sartana Does Not Forgive
as Kirchner
1968
6.1
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
as Juan Chasquido / Jess Guido
1968
4.9
🎬
Land's End
as Captain Bravo
1968
0.0
Johnny Hamlet
as Dazio
1968
6.3
The Ruthless Four
as Mason
1968
5.9
Any Gun Can Play
as Monetero
1967
6.2
The High Chaparral
as Don Domingo Montoya
1967
6.6
Garrison's Gorillas
1967
7.8
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
as Serge Marko
1966
5.8
The F.B.I.
as Emilio Cruz
1965
5.4
The Reward
as Captain Carbajal
1965
5.7
Cheyenne Autumn
as Dull Knife
1964
6.7
The Fugitive
as Jose Anza
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Gus Priamos
1963
7.2
🎬
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
5.0
Combat!
as Boulanger
1962
7.7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Luis Aguilar
1962
7.8
Samar
as Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar
1962
0.0
Guns of the Timberland
as Monty Walker
1960
6.1
The Big Circus
as Zach Colino (Aerialist)
1959
6.5
The Wild and the Innocent
as Paul
1959
6.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
The Last of the Fast Guns
as Miles Lang
1958
5.4
The Midnight Story
as Sylvio Malatesta
1957
6.0
Invitation to a Gunfighter
as Dancer
1957
0.0
Three Violent People
as Innocencio Ortega
1956
5.9
Around the World in 80 Days
as Achmed Abdullah
1956
6.6
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
Bandido!
as Col. Escobar
1956
5.7
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
as Colonel Juan Castro
1955
5.8
Gunsmoke
as Lt. Julio Chavez
1955
6.6
That Lady
as Antonio Perez
1955
6.0
Underwater!
as Dominic Quesada
1955
5.4
The Racers
as Dell'Oro
1955
6.0
December Bride
1954
5.5
The French Line
as Pierre DuQuesne
1954
3.9
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
as Mike Petrakis
1953
5.9
The Diamond Queen
as Baron Paul de Cabannes
1953
0.0
Thunder Bay
as Teche Bossier
1953
6.1
The Bad and the Beautiful
as Victor "Gaucho" Ribera
1952
7.3
Apache War Smoke
as Peso Herrera
1952
3.0
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
as Hugo da Silva
1952
5.9
Glory Alley
as Peppi Donnato
1952
5.5
My Six Convicts
as Punch Pinero
1952
6.3
Ten Tall Men
as Corporal Luis Delgado
1951
6.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Gino Bardi
1951
7.2
The Mark of the Renegade
as Don Pedro Garcia
1951
5.2
Bullfighter and the Lady
as Manolo Estrada
1951
6.1
The Furies
as Juan Herrera
1950
7.2
Crisis
as Roland Gonzales
1950
6.6
The Torch
as Father Sierra
1950
4.8
Malaya
as Romano
1949
6.5
We Were Strangers
as Guillermo Montilla
1949
6.0
Revolt of the Ghosts
as Arturo Ruiz del Rosal
1949
5.0
The Dude Goes West
as Pecos Kid
1948
5.2
Pirates of Monterey
as Major de Roja
1947
4.7
King of the Bandits
as Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica
1947
4.0
Robin Hood of Monterey
as The Cisco Kid
1947
5.9
High Conquest
as Hugo Lanier
1947
0.0
The Other Love
as Croupier
1947
6.0
Riding the California Trail
as The Cisco Kid
1947
4.0
Beauty and the Bandit
as The Cisco Kid
1946
6.2
South of Monterey
as The Cisco Kid
1946
0.0
The Gay Cavalier
as The Cisco Kid
1946
0.0
Captain Kidd
as Jose Lorenzo
1945
6.2
The Desert Hawk
as Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother
1944
6.0
Wings Up
as Himself
1943
5.2
Isle of Missing Men
as Dan Curtis
1942
6.2
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
as Paul Gilette
1942
5.5
My Life with Caroline
as Paco Del Valle
1941
5.7
Angels with Broken Wings
as Don Pablo Vincente
1941
3.7
Rangers of Fortune
as Antonio Hernandez Sierra
1940
5.0
The Sea Hawk
as Capt. Lopez
1940
7.2
Gambling on the High Seas
as Greg Morella
1940
5.0
Isle Of Destiny
as Oliver Barton
1940
5.0
Juarez
as Colonel Miguel Lopez
1939
6.5
Gateway
as Tony Cadona
1938
6.5
The Bohemian Life
as Rodolfo
1938
0.0
Thunder Trail
as Arizona Dick Ames
1937
6.0
The Last Train from Madrid
as Eduardo de Soto
1937
4.3
Midnight Taxi
as Flash Dillon
1937
5.0
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
as Self
1935
5.9
Ladies Love Danger
1935
0.0
🎬
Mystery Woman
as Juan Santanda
1935
0.0
Elinor Norton
as Rene Alba
1934
6.0
After Tonight
as Capt. Rudolph Ritter
1933
6.3
🎬
Una viuda romántica
as Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González
1933
0.0
Gigolettes of Paris
as Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand
1933
5.0
Our Betters
as Pepi D'Costa
1933
5.1
She Done Him Wrong
as Serge Stanieff
1933
5.8
Call Her Savage
as Moonglow
1932
5.5
🎬
A Parisian Romance
as Victor
1932
3.5
No Living Witness
as Jerry Bennett
1932
0.0
Life Begins
as Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)
1932
6.0
The Woman in Room 13
as Victor Legrand
1932
0.0
The Men in Her Life
as Jaime Gilman
1932
0.0
The Passionate Plumber
as Tony Lagorce
1932
6.0
Resurrection
as Prince Dmitri Nekhludov
1931
6.0
🎬
Monsieur Le Fox
1930
6.0
Men of the North
as Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox
1930
5.0
New York Nights
as Fred Deverne
1929
4.8
The Woman Disputed
as Paul Hartman
1928
6.2
The Dove
as Johnny Powell
1927
6.4
The Love Mart
as Victor Jallot
1927
0.0
Rose of the Golden West
as Juan
1927
0.0
Camille
as Armand Duval
1927
1.0
The Blonde Saint
as Annibale
1926
0.0
The Campus Flirt
as Graham Stearns
1926
0.0
The Plastic Age
as Carl Peters
1925
6.0
The Lady Who Lied
1925
0.0
The Spaniard
as Matador (uncredited)
1925
0.0
The Lost World
as Extra
1925
6.7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Extra (uncredited)
1923
6.5