Gilbert Roland
Gilbert Roland | |
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 Roland in 1952 | |
| Born | Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (1905-12-11)December 11, 1905 Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Died | May 15, 1994(1994-05-15) (aged 88) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1923–82 |
| Spouse(s) | Constance Bennett (m. 1941; div. 1945) Guillermina Cantu (m. 1954) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Hollywood Walk of Fame (Motion Picture 6730 Hollywood Boulevard) |
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.[1]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Personal life
3 Death
4 Accolades
5 Archives
6 Filmography
7 References
8 External links
Biography
Roland was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and originally intended to become a bullfighter like his father. When the family moved to the United States, however, he became interested in acting when he was picked at random for a role as an extra. 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 major role was in the collegiate comedy The Plastic Age (1925) together with Clara Bow, to whom he became engaged.[2] 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 (and totally fictional) friend of the three shepherd children in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, based on the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917. In 1953, Roland played Greek-American sponge diver Mike Petrakis in the epic Beneath the 12-Mile Reef.
Roland played Dom Pedro II, the emperor of Brazil, in a 1963 episode, "A Kingdom for a Horse", of the syndicated western television series Death Valley Days.
His last film appearance was in the 1982 western Barbarosa.
Personal life
Gilbert Roland from the trailer for the film The Bad and the Beautiful from 1952
Roland married actress Constance Bennett on April 20, 1941 in Yuma, Arizona.[3] They were married until 1946. He had appeared with Bennett in 1933 as Pepe in George Cukor's Our Betters, and in the same year, as the romantic lead in After Tonight, a World War I drama. His second marriage to Guillermina Cantú in 1954 lasted until his death 40 years later.
Death
Gilbert Roland died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California in 1994, aged 88. His body was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea.
Accolades
Roland was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award, for his roles in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Gilbert Roland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard.
Archives
The moving-image collection of Gilbert Roland is held at the Academy Film Archive. Home movies make up the bulk of the collection. The film material at the Academy Film Archive is complemented by material in the Gilbert Roland papers at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library.[4]
Filmography
with Constance Bennett in After Tonight (1933)
Features:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) as Extra (uncredited)
The Lost World (1925) as Extra (uncredited)
The Spaniard (1925) as Matador (uncredited)
The Lady Who Lied (1925)
The Lawful Cheater (1925) (uncredited)
The Midshipman (1925) (uncredited)
The Plastic Age (1925) as Carl Peters
The Campus Flirt (1926) as Graham Stearns
The Blonde Saint (1926) as Annibale
Camille (1926) as Armand Duval
Rose of the Golden West (1927) as Juan
The Love Mart (1927) as Victor Jallot
The Dove (1927) as Johnny Powell
The Woman Disputed (1928) as Paul Hartman
New York Nights (1929) as Fred Deverne
Men of the North (1930) (Spanish and French version also filmed) as Louis La Bey aka Monsieur Le Fox
Monsieur Le Fox (1930) as Luis Le Bey
Resurrección (1931) (Spanish version of Resurrection) as Prince Dmitri Nekhludov
The Passionate Plumber (1932) as Tony Lagorce
Hombres de mi vida (1932) (Spanish version of Men in Her Life) as Jaime Gilman
The Woman in Room 13 (1932) as Victor Legrand
Life Begins (1932) as Tony, Rita's Husband (uncredited)
No Living Witness (1932) as Jerry Bennett
A Parisian Romance (1932) as Victor
Call Her Savage (1932) as Moonglow
She Done Him Wrong (1933) as Serge Stanieff
Our Betters (1933) as Pepi D'Costa
The Romantic Widow (1933) as Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González
Tarnished Youth (1933) (UK version of Gigolettes of Paris) as Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand
After Tonight (1933) as Captain Rudolph "Rudy" Ritter
Yo, tú y ella (1933) as Gabriel Villalba
Elinor Norton (1934) as Rene Alba
Mystery Woman (1935) as Juan Santanda
Juliet Buys a Baby (1935) as Jack Aranda
Ladies Love Danger (1935) as Ricardo Souchet aka Alonzo
Midnight Taxi (1937) as Flash Dillon
The Last Train from Madrid (1937) as Eduardo de Soto
Thunder Trail (1937) as Dick Ames aka Arizona Lopez
La vida bohemia (1938) as Rodolfo
Gateway (1938) as Tony Cadona
Juarez (1939) as Colonel Miguel Lopez
Isle of Destiny (1940) as Oliver Barton
Gambling on the High Seas (1940) as Greg Morella
The Sea Hawk (1940) as Capt. Lopez
Rangers of Fortune (1940) as Antonio Hernandez Sierra
Angels with Broken Wings (1941) as Don Pablo Vincente
My Life with Caroline (1941) as Paco Del Valle
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942) as Paul Gillette
Isle of Missing Men (1942) as Thomas 'Dan' Bentley - alias Curtis
The Desert Hawk (1944) as Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother
Captain Kidd (1945) as Jose Lorenzo
The Gay Cavalier (1946) as The Cisco Kid
South of Monterey (1946) as The Cisco Kid
Beauty and the Bandit (1946) as The Cisco Kid
Riding the California Trail (1947) as The Cisco Kid posing as Don Luis Salazar
The Other Love (1947) as Croupier
High Conquest (1947) as Hugo Lanier
Robin Hood of Monterey (1947) as The Cisco Kid
King of the Bandits (1947) as Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica
Pirates of Monterey (1947) as Major de Rojas
King of the Bandits (1947) as the Cisco Kid
The Dude Goes West (1948) as Pecos Kid
The Rebellion of the Ghosts (1949) as Arturo del Rosal
We Were Strangers (1949) as Guillermo Montilla
Malaya (1949) as Romano
The Torch (1950) as Father Sierra
Crisis (1950) as Roland Gonzales
The Furies (1950) as Juan Herrera
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951) as Manolo Estrada
The Mark of the Renegade (1951) as Don Pedro Garcia
Ten Tall Men (1951) as Corporal Luis Delgado
My Six Convicts (1952) as Punch Pinero
Glory Alley (1952) as Peppi Donnato
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952) as Hugo da Silva
Apache War Smoke (1952) as Peso Herrera
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) as Victor 'Gaucho' Ribero
Thunder Bay (1953) as Teche Bossier
The Diamond Queen (1953) as Baron Paul de Cabannes
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) as Mike Petrakis
The French Line (1953) as Pierre DuQuesne
The Racers (1955) as Dell'Oro
Underwater! (1955) as Dominic Quesada
That Lady (1955) as Antonio Perez
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955) as Colonel Juan Castro
Bandido (1956) as Colonel José Escobar
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Achmed Abdullah
Three Violent People (1956) as Innocencio Ortega
The Midnight Story (1957) as Sylvio Malatesta
The Last of the Fast Guns (1958) as Miles Lang
The Wild and the Innocent (1959) as PPaul
The Big Circus (1959) as Zach Colino
Catch Me If You Can (1959) (unreleased)
Guns of the Timberland (1960) as Monty Walker
Samar (1962) as Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar
Cheyenne Autumn (1964) as Dull Knife
The Reward (1965) as Capt. Carbajal
The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966) as Serge Marko
Any Gun Can Play (1967) as Monetero
The Ruthless Four (1968) as Mason
Between God, the Devil and a Winchester (1968) as Horace
Johnny Hamlet (1968) as Juan Chasquisdo
Sartana Does Not Forgive (1968) as Kirchner
The Christian Licorice Store (1971) as Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers
Running Wild (1973) as Chief Tomacito
Treasure of Tayopa (1974) as Himself - Host
The Pacific Connection (1974) as Alan
Islands in the Stream (1977) as Captain Ralph
The Black Pearl (1977)
The Sacketts (1979 TV Movie) as Don Luis
Caboblanco (1980) as Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez
Barbarosa (1982) as Don Braulio (final film role)
Television:
Zorro, episodes "El Bandido" and "Adios El Cuchillo" (1960) as El Cuchillo / The Knife
Gunsmoke, episode "Extradition" (1963) as Lt. Julio Chavez
The Fugitive, episode "Somebody to Remember" (1964) as Gus Priamos; episode "The Savage Street" (1967) as Jose Anza.
Combat! (1965) as Boulanger
Bonanza episode "The Lonely Runner" (1965) as Jim Acton
Death Valley Days, episode "A Kingdom for a Horse" (1963) as Emperor Dom Pedro- The High Chaparral
Night Gallery (1972) as The Bartender (segment "The Waiting Room")- Hart to Hart, episode "The Raid" (1980) as Jorge
- "[Barnaby Jones]" (1974) "Rendezvous with Terror"
Short subjects:
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 8 (1936)
Picture People No. 2: Hollywood Sports (1941)
Wings Up (1943)
References
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^ "My life, by Clara Bow". Told to and edited by Adela Rogers St. Johns. Published by Photoplay magazine in February, March and April 1928
^ Arizona, County Marriage Records, 1865-1972
^ "Gilbert Roland Collection". Academy Film Archive.
- Monush, Barry. The Encyclopedia of Film Actors From The Silent Era to 1965. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2003.
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gilbert Roland. |
Gilbert Roland on IMDb- Original letter from Greta Garbo to Gilbert Roland (1943)
- Photographs and literature
Gilbert Roland at Find a Grave
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