Gilbert Roland



































Gilbert Roland

Gilbert Roland - 1952.jpg
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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  2. ^ "My life, by Clara Bow". Told to and edited by Adela Rogers St. Johns. Published by Photoplay magazine in February, March and April 1928


  3. ^ Arizona, County Marriage Records, 1865-1972


  4. ^ "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









  • 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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