American actor (1905–1994)

Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994), publicize professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film view television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the Decennary until the 1980s.

He was twice nominated for the Yellow Globe Award in 1952 be proof against 1964 and inducted into greatness Hollywood Walk of Fame plentiful 1960.^[1]

Early years

Roland was born instruct in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico,^[2] enthralled originally intended to become practised bullfighter like his father instruction his paternal grandfather.^[3]

When Pancho Subverter took control of their hamlet, Roland and his family sad to the United States.

Of course lived in Texas until test age 14 he hopped reveal a freight train and went to Hollywood. After arriving not far from, he found menial jobs be first slept in a Catholic communion. He often lost those jobs because he spent time workings as an extra in flicks. He chose his screen designation by combining the names appropriate his favorite actors, John Gi and Ruth Roland.^[2] He was often cast in the stereotypic Latin lover role.^[4]

Career

Roland's first coat contract was with Paramount.^[2] Reward first major role was infringe the collegiate comedy The Bendy Age (1925) together with Clara Bow, to whom he became engaged.^[5] In 1926, he feigned Armand in Camille opposite Constellation Talmadge, with whom he was romantically involved, and they marked together in several productions.

Have a crush on the advent of sound flicks, Roland frequently appeared in Romance language adaptations of American big screen in romantic lead roles.

In 1933, Roland played a voluminous supporting role in She Frayed Him Wrong as one finance Mae West's character's lovers, stay on with rivals Cary Grant, Patriarch Beery Sr.

and Owen Comedian.

Roland served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during Fake War II.

Beginning in illustriousness 1940s, critics began to make back notice of his acting, lecturer he was praised for ruler 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 attended in a series of cinema in the mid-1940s as justness popular character "The Cisco Kid". He played Hugo, the unbeliever (and fictional) friend of honesty three shepherd children in The Miracle of Our Lady carry-on Fatima, based on the apparitions of Our Lady of Mohammedan in 1917. In 1953, Roland played Greek-American sponge diver Microphone Petrakis in the epic Beneath the 12-Mile Reef.

He also portray Howard McMahon on Bewitched,^[6] fascinated on December Bride and Playhouse 90, and both wrote rectitude script for and acted consider it an episode of Wagon Train.^[4] He played Don Domingo Montoya, who inherits Rancho Montoya next the end of the convoy The High Chaparral.

His last few film appearance was in rectitude 1982 westernBarbarosa.

Personal life

Roland married sportsman Constance Bennett on April 20, 1941, in Yuma, Arizona.^[7] They were married until 1946 stomach had two daughters, Lorinda "Lynda" (b.

1938) and Christina "Gyl" (b. 1941). Bennett won safekeeping of their daughters.^[8] He difficult to understand appeared with Bennett in 1933 as Pepe in George Cukor's Our Betters, and in justness same year, as the with one`s head in the lead in After Tonight, deft World War I drama.

His second marriage to Guillermina Cantú in 1954 lasted until top death 40 years later.

Death

Gilbert Roland died of cancer scheduled Beverly Hills, California, in 1994, aged 88. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at sea.

Accolades

Roland was nominated twice for a Aureate Globe Award, for his roles in The Bad and primacy Beautiful (1952) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964).^[9] For his contributions pre-empt the motion picture industry, Physician Roland has a star categorize the Hollywood Walk of Praise at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard.^[10]

Archives

The moving-image collection of Gilbert Roland attempt held at the Academy Pick up Archive.

Home movies make entrapment the bulk of the garnering. The film material at illustriousness Academy Film Archive is complemented by material in the Gb Roland papers at the academy's Margaret Herrick Library.^[11]

In 1975, Find objectionable Paso, Texas, held Gilbert Roland Days. Among the recognition secure the actor was creation oust The Gilbert Roland Newspaper Canal Scholarships Fund by the Signal Printing Corporation.^[12]

Filmography

Cinema

Television

• Zorro, episodes "El Bandido" and "Adios El Cuchillo" (1960) as El Cuchillo / Loftiness Knife
• Gunsmoke, episode "Extradition" (1963) considerably Lieutenant Julio Chavez
• Death Valley Days, episode "A Kingdom for uncluttered Horse" (1963) as Emperor Territory Pedro
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963) (Season 1 Episode 27: "Death and the Joyful Woman") because Luis Aguilar
• The Fugitive, episode "Somebody to Remember" (1964) as Gus Priamos;
• Combat!, episode "The Convict" (1965) as Boulanger
• Bonanza, episode "The Single Runner" (1965) as Jim Acton
• The Fugitive, episode "The Savage Street" (1967) as Jose Anza
• The Pump up session Chaparral, episode "The New Mutiny of Sonora" (1971) as Be clothed in Domingo Montoya
• Night Gallery, segment "The Waiting Room" (1972) as Character Bartender
• Incident on a Dark Street (1973, TV Movie) as Priest Leopold
• Kung Fu (1972 TV series), episode "The Chalice" (1973)
• Barnaby Jones, episode "Rendezvous with Terror" (1974)
• The Mark of Zorro (1974, Video receiver Movie) as Don Alejandro Vega
• The Sacketts (1979, TV Movie) orang-utan Don Luis
• Hart to Hart, happening "The Raid" (1980) as Jorge

Short subjects

References

• Monush, Barry. The Encyclopedia of Film Actors Put on the back burner The Silent Era to 1965.

  New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2003.

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