Birthday
1899/02/05
Day of death
1968/10/30 (69 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Durango City, Durango, Mexico
Also know as
Ramón Novarro, Ramon Samaniego, Ramon Samaniegos, The Latin Lover, Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego
Mexico native Ramon Novarro (born Jose Ramon Gil Samaniego, February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968) was a Hollywood film and television actor. He was a major star and matinee idol of 1920s Silent through early 1930s "talkies" cinema.
(1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Judah Ben-Hur
(1931) Mata Hari
as Lt. Alexis Rosanoff
(1960) Heller in Pink Tights
as De Leon
(1950) Crisis
as Colonel Adragon
(1949) We Were Strangers
as Chief
(1949) The Big Steal
as Inspector General Ortega
(1928) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
as Prince Karl Heinrich
(1934) The Cat and the Fiddle
as Victor Florescu
(1917) The Hostage
as ---
(1972) Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
(1928) Across to Singapore
as Joel Shore
(1922) The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rupert of Hentzau
(2018) Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(1940) Comedy of Happiness
as Félix
(1950) The Outriders
as Don Antonio Chaves
(1931) Son of India
as Karim
(1929) The Pagan
as Henry Shoesmith Jr.
(1924) The Red Lily
as Jean Leonnec
(1932) Huddle
as Tony
(1934) Laughing Boy
as Laughing Boy
(1929) Devil-May-Care
as Armand de Treville
(1932) The Son-Daughter
as Tom Lee
(1935) The Night Is Young
as Archduke Paul 'Gustl' Gustave
(1930) Call of the Flesh
as Juan de Dios
(1927) Lovers
as Jose
(1933) The Barbarian
as Jamil El Shehab
(1930) In Gay Madrid
as Ricardo
(1923) Where the Pavement Ends
as Motauri
(1931) The Christmas Party
as Himself
(1922) Mr. Barnes of New York
as Antonio
(1917) The Little American
as Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
(1921) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Guest at Ball (uncredited)
(1927) The Road to Romance
as José Armando
(1930) Sevilla de mis Amores
as ---
(1931) Daybreak
as Willi Kasder
(1929) The Flying Fleet
as Tommy Winslow
(1923) Scaramouche
as André-Louis Moreau, alias 'Scaramouche'
(1937) The Sheik Steps Out
as Ahmed Ben Nesib
(1938) A Desperate Adventure
as André Friezan
(1960) Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
(1931) We're switching to Hollywood
as Self
(1942) The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
as Juan Diego
(1925) 1925 Studio Tour
as Self
(1925) A Lover's Oath
as Ben Ali
(1916) Joan the Woman
as Starving Peasant
(1917) The Woman God Forgot
as Aztec Man (uncredited)
(1924) The Arab
as Jamil Abdullah Azam
(1921) A Small Town Idol
as Dancer (uncredited)
(1944) Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
(1928) Forbidden Hours
as His Majesty, Michael IV
(1924) Thy Name Is Woman
as Juan Ricardo
(1921) Man-Woman-Marriage
as Dancer
(1922) Trifling Women
as Henri / Ivan de Maupin
(1994) The Bible According to Hollywood
as Self
(1939) A Small Town Idol
as Dancer
(1928) A Certain Young Man
as Lord Gerald Brinsley
(1925) The Midshipman
as Dick Randall
(1962) Combat!
as Count De Roy
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1959) Rawhide
as Father Tasso
(1967) The High Chaparral
as Padre Guillermo
(1960) Thriller
as Maestro Giuliano
(1961) Dr. Kildare
as Gasparo Paolini
(1975) Arena
as Self (archive footage)
(1959) The Big Party
as Self