Gilbert Roland

Born

December 11, 1905

Died

May 15, 1994 (88 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

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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

6.6

The Sea Hawk

Complicated Women

Self (archive footage)

6.7

2003

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema

6.2

2002

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

7.7

1999

Barbarosa

Don Braulio

5.9

1982

Caboblanco

Dr. Rudolfo Ramirez

5.3

1980

The Sacketts

Don Luis Alvarado · (2 episodes)

7.5

1979

The Black Pearl

7.5

1977

Islands in the Stream

Captain Ralph

6.4

1977

The Deadly Tower

Narrator (voice)

6.6

1975

The Pacific Connection

Allan

4.3

1974

The Mark of Zorro

Don Alejandro Vega

5.9

1974

Treasure of Tayopa

Himself - Host

3.7

1974

Running Wild

Chief Tomicito

0.0

1973

Barnaby Jones

Juan DeVarga · (1 episode)

6.9

1973

Incident on a Dark Street

Dominic Leopold

5.0

1973

Kung Fu

Padre Braganza · (1 episode)

7.7

1972

The Christian Licorice Store

Jonathan 'JC' Carruthers

4.4

1971

Night Gallery

(1 episode)

7.8

1970

McCloud

(1 episode)

7.1

1970

Medical Center

(1 episode)

6.1

1969

Sartana Does Not Forgive

Kirchner

6.1

1968

Between God, The Devil and a Winchester

Boulanger · (1 episode)

7.7

1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Luis Aguilar · (1 episode)

7.8

1962

Samar

Col. Juan Sebastian Salazar

0.0

1962

Guns of the Timberland

Monty Walker

6.1

1960

The Big Circus

Zach Colino (Aerialist)

6.5

1959

The Wild and the Innocent

Paul

6.3

1959

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

(1 episode)

5.8

1958

The Last of the Fast Guns

Miles Lang

5.2

1958

The Midnight Story

Sylvio Malatesta

6.1

1957

Three Violent People

Innocencio Ortega, Grand Vacaro

6.1

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

Achmed Abdullah

6.6

1956

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1956

Bandido!

Col. Escobar

5.7

1956

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

Colonel Juan Castro

5.8

1955

Gunsmoke

Lt. Julio Chavez · (2 episodes)

6.6

1955

That Lady

Antonio Perez

6.0

1955

Underwater!

Dominic Quesada

5.6

1955

The Racers

Dell'Oro

6.0

1955

December Bride

(1 episode)

5.5

1954

The French Line

Pierre DuQuesne

4.2

1954

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

Mike Petrakis

5.9

1953

The Diamond Queen

Baron Paul de Cabannes

0.0

1953

Thunder Bay

Teche Bossier

6.1

1953

The Bad and the Beautiful

Victor "Gaucho" Ribera

7.3

1952

Apache War Smoke

Peso Herrera

3.0

1952

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

Hugo da Silva

5.7

1952

Glory Alley

Peppi Donnato

5.8

1952

My Six Convicts

Punch Pinero

6.3

1952

Ten Tall Men

Corporal Luis Delgado

6.4

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Gino Bardi · (1 episode)

7.3

1951

The Mark of the Renegade

Don Pedro Garcia

5.2

1951

Bullfighter and the Lady

Manolo Estrada

6.1

1951

The Furies

Juan Herrera

7.1

1950

Crisis

Roland Gonzales

6.6

1950

The Torch

Father Sierra

4.8

1950

Malaya

Romano

6.5

1949

We Were Strangers

Guillermo Montilla

5.9

1949

Revolt of the Ghosts

Arturo Ruiz del Rosal

5.0

1949

The Dude Goes West

Pecos Kid

5.8

1948

Pirates of Monterey

Major de Roja

4.7

1947

King of the Bandits

Cisco Kid aka Ramon Mojica

4.0

1947

Robin Hood of Monterey

The Cisco Kid

5.9

1947

High Conquest

Hugo Lanier

0.0

1947

The Other Love

Croupier

6.0

1947

Riding the California Trail

The Cisco Kid

4.0

1947

Beauty and the Bandit

The Cisco Kid

6.0

1946

South of Monterey

The Cisco Kid

0.0

1946

The Gay Cavalier

The Cisco Kid

0.0

1946

Captain Kidd

Jose Lorenzo

6.0

1945

The Desert Hawk

Kasim, The Desert Hawk / Hassan, Evil Twin Brother

6.0

1944

Wings Up

Himself

5.2

1943

Isle of Missing Men

Dan Curtis

6.2

1942

Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen

Paul Gilette

5.5

1942

My Life with Caroline

Paco Del Valle

5.7

1941

Angels with Broken Wings

Don Pablo Vincente

3.7

1941

Rangers of Fortune

Antonio Hernandez Sierra

5.0

1940

The Sea Hawk

Capt. Lopez

7.1

1940

Gambling on the High Seas

Greg Morella

4.7

1940

Isle Of Destiny

Oliver Barton

5.0

1940

Juarez

Colonel Miguel Lopez

6.5

1939

Gateway

Tony Cadona

6.5

1938

The Bohemian Life

Rodolfo

0.0

1938

Thunder Trail

Arizona Dick Ames

6.0

1937

The Last Train from Madrid

Eduardo de Soto

4.7

1937

Midnight Taxi

Flash Dillon

5.0

1937

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

Self

5.9

1935

Ladies Love Danger

0.0

1935

Mystery Woman

Juan Santanda

0.0

1935

Elinor Norton

Rene Alba

6.0

1934

After Tonight

Capt. Rudolph Ritter

6.3

1933

Una viuda romántica

Luis Felipe de Córdoba aka Prudencio González

0.0

1933

Gigolettes of Paris

Antoine 'Tony' Ferrand

5.0

1933

Our Betters

Pepi D'Costa

5.4

1933

She Done Him Wrong

Serge Stanieff

5.8

1933

Call Her Savage

6.0

1932

Resurrection

Prince Dmitri Nekhludov

6.0

1931

Carl Peters

5.9

1925

Extra (uncredited)

6.5

1923