1. Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso, known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s.
18 Facts About Gilbert Roland
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Gilbert Roland was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1952 and 1964 and inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
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Gilbert Roland lived in Texas until at age 14 he hopped on a freight train and went to Hollywood.
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Gilbert Roland often lost those jobs because he spent time working as an extra in films.
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Gilbert Roland chose his screen name by combining the names of his favorite actors, John Gilbert and Ruth Roland.
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Gilbert Roland was often cast in the stereotypical Latin lover role.
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In 1933, Gilbert Roland played a large supporting role in She Done Him Wrong as one of Mae West's character's lovers, along with rivals Cary Grant, Noah Beery Sr.
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Gilbert Roland served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II.
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Gilbert Roland appeared in a series of films in the mid-1940s as the popular character "The Cisco Kid".
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Gilbert Roland played Hugo, the agnostic 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.
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In 1953, Gilbert Roland played Greek-American sponge diver Mike Petrakis in the epic Beneath the 12-Mile Reef.
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Gilbert Roland played Don Domingo Montoya, who inherits Rancho Montoya near the end of the series The High Chaparral.
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Gilbert Roland married actress Constance Bennett on April 20,1941, in Yuma, Arizona.
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Gilbert Roland 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.
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Gilbert Roland died of cancer in Beverly Hills, California, in 1994, aged 88.
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Gilbert Roland's body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at sea.
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Gilbert Roland was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award, for his roles in The Bad and the Beautiful and Cheyenne Autumn.
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The moving-image collection of Gilbert Roland is held at the Academy Film Archive.