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Ramon Novarro
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Life & Death

Died aged 69
Also known asRamón Novarro, Ramon Samaniego, Ramon Samaniegos, The Latin Lover, Jose Ramón Gil SamaniegoGenderMaleNationalityMexicoBorn05/02/1899Born inDurango City, Durango, MexicoDied30/10/1968 (aged 69)Died inHollywoodCauseasphyxiaWikidataQ711642 ↗Buried atCalvary CemeteryTMDb#85425 ↗

Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office attractions of the 1920s and early '30s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino. He is recognized as the first Latin American actor to succeed in Hollywood.

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Filmography47 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2021This Is Francis X. BushmanMovieJudah Ben-Hur (Archive Footage)122
2018Scotty and the Secret History of HollywoodMovieSelf (archive footage)119
2002The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American CinemaMovie—103
1994The Bible According to HollywoodMovieSelf95
1990Death In HollywoodMovie—91
1988Hollywood Scandals and TragediesMovie(archive footage) (uncredited)89
1972Hollywood: The Dream FactoryMovieSelf (archive footage)73
1967The High ChaparralSeriesPadre Guillermo68
1962Combat!SeriesCount De Roy63
1961Dr. KildareSeriesGasparo Paolini62
1960ThrillerSeriesMaestro Giuliano61
1960Heller in Pink TightsMovieDe Leon61
1960Hedda Hopper's HollywoodMovieSelf61
1959RawhideSeriesFather Tasso60
1959The Big PartySeriesSelf60
1950CrisisMovieColonel Adragon51
1949We Were StrangersMovieChief50
1948The Ed Sullivan ShowSeriesSelf49
1944Twenty Years AfterMovie(archive footage)45
1938A Desperate AdventureMovieAndré Friezan39
1935The Night Is YoungMovieArchduke Paul 'Gustl' Gustave36
1934Laughing BoyMovieLaughing Boy35
1934The Cat and the FiddleMovieVictor Florescu35
1932HuddleMovieTony33
1931The Christmas PartyMovieHimself32
1931Son of IndiaMovieKarim32
1931We’re Switching to HollywoodMovieSelf32
1930Call of the FleshMovieJuan de Dios31
1929The Flying FleetMovieTommy Winslow30
1929The PaganMovieHenry Shoesmith Jr.30
1928The Student Prince in Old HeidelbergMoviePrince Karl Heinrich29
1928Across to SingaporeMovieJoel Shore29
1928Forbidden HoursMovieHis Majesty, Michael IV29
1927The Road to RomanceMovieJosé Armando28
1926Vårt kronprinspar i HollywoodMovie—27
1925Ben-Hur: A Tale of the ChristMovieJudah Ben-Hur26
1925The MidshipmanMovieDick Randall26
19251925 Studio TourMovieSelf26
1924The Red LilyMovieJean Leonnec25
1924The ArabMovieJamil Abdullah Azam25
1924Thy Name Is WomanMovieJuan Ricardo25
1923ScaramoucheMovieAndré-Louis Moreau, alias 'Scaramouche'24
1921A Small Town IdolMovieDancer (uncredited)22
1921The Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseMovieGuest at Ball (uncredited)22
1918The GoatMovie—19
1917The Woman God ForgotMovieAztec Man (uncredited)18
1916Joan the WomanMovieStarving Peasant17