Gilbert Roland
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
133
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-12-11
Day of death
1994-05-15 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Gilbert Roland
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
The Fugitive
The Fugitive
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Combat!
Gunsmoke
Medical Center
The High Chaparral
The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
Barnaby Jones
The F.B.I.
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
Night Gallery
McCloud
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Sartana Does Not Forgive
After Tonight
December Bride
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Underwater!
Barbarosa
Samar
Life Begins
The Mark of the Renegade
Crisis
Resurrection
Caboblanco
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Bandido!
The Torch
The Greatest Show on Earth
Thunder Trail
Juarez
Cheyenne Autumn
The Furies
Thunder Bay
Our Betters
Islands in the Stream
Elinor Norton
Garrison's Gorillas
The Sacketts
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Reward
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Malaya
The Wild and the Innocent
Mystery Woman
That Lady
The Other Love
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Lost World
Around the World in 80 Days
Apache War Smoke
Ten Tall Men
The Desert Hawk
The Black Pearl
The Plastic Age
The Midnight Story
The French Line
Angels with Broken Wings
The Treasure of Pancho Villa
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
The Last of the Fast Guns
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
She Done Him Wrong
The Sea Hawk
The Ruthless Four
The Mark of Zorro
Bullfighter and the Lady
The Deadly Tower
Three Violent People
New York Nights
The Christian Licorice Store
Pirates of Monterey
Rose of the Golden West
Isle Of Destiny
The Last Train from Madrid
My Life with Caroline
The Diamond Queen
King of the Bandits
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Guns of the Timberland
Wings Up
Rangers of Fortune
The Passionate Plumber
The Woman in Room 13
The Woman Disputed
The Big Circus
Isle of Missing Men
Gigolettes of Paris
The Dude Goes West
The Gay Cavalier
Men of the North
South of Monterey
Call Her Savage
Una viuda romántica
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
My Six Convicts
Glory Alley
We Were Strangers
Land's End
The Racers
The Lady Who Lied
Kung Fu
Gambling on the High Seas
Midnight Taxi
Invitation to a Gunfighter
The Spaniard
Captain Kidd
The Campus Flirt
The Men in Her Life
Running Wild
Complicated Women
High Conquest
The Bohemian Life
Any Gun Can Play
The Blonde Saint
Riding the California Trail
No Living Witness
The Pacific Connection
Johnny Hamlet
A Parisian Romance
Beauty and the Bandit
Camille
Gateway
Monsieur Le Fox
Incident on a Dark Street
Ladies Love Danger
Robin Hood of Monterey
The Dove
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
The Love Mart
Revolt of the Ghosts
Treasure of Tayopa
