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Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego, known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican-American film, stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box office attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s. Novarro was promoted by MGM as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of Rudolph Valentino.
Birth Name
Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego
Born
Monday, 06 February 1899
Died
Wednesday, 30 October 1968
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Self - Actor / Self (archive footage) | 2018 |
| The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema | Self | 2002 |
| E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
| The Bible According to Hollywood | Himself | 1994 |
| Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter | Self | 1992 |
| The Republic Pictures Story | Ahmed Ben Nesib (clip from The Sheik Steps Out (1937)) | 1991 |
| Death in Hollywood | Self | 1990 |
| Hollywood | Actor 'Ben-Hur' | 1980 |
| Arena | Himself (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Self - Actor / Self (archive footage) | 2018 |
| The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema | Self | 2002 |
| E! Mysteries & Scandals | Self | 1998 |
| The Bible According to Hollywood | Himself | 1994 |
| Murderers, Mobsters and Madmen: Hollywood Police Blotter | Self | 1992 |
| The Republic Pictures Story | Ahmed Ben Nesib (clip from The Sheik Steps Out (1937)) | 1991 |
| Death in Hollywood | Self | 1990 |
| Hollywood | Actor 'Ben-Hur' | 1980 |
| Arena | Himself (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self - film clips / Self (archive footage) | 1972 |
| The High Chaparral | Padre Guillermo | 1967 |
| The Wild Wild West | Don Tomas | 1965 |
| Combat! | Count De Roy / Charles Gireaux | 1962 |
| Dr. Kildare | Gasparo Paolini | 1961 |
| Thriller | Maestro Giuliano | 1960 |
| Heller in Pink Tights | De Leon | 1960 |
| The Big Party | Self - Schick Razor pitchman | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Jose Ortega | 1959 |
| Rawhide | Father Tasso | 1959 |
| The Magical World of Disney | Don Esteban Miranda | 1954 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
| Crisis | Colonel Adragon | 1950 |
| The Outriders | Don Antonio Chaves | 1950 |
| The Ken Murray Show | Self | 1950 |
| The Big Steal | Inspector General Ortega | 1949 |
| We Were Strangers | Chief | 1949 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | Self / Ben-Hur in 'Ben-Hur' | 1948 |
| Some of the Best | Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur: A Story of the Christ | 1944 |
| Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944 |
| The Saint That Forged a Country | Juan Diego | 1942 |
| La comédie du bonheur | Félix | 1940 |
| Ecco la felicità | Felice Ciatti | 1940 |
| A Desperate Adventure | André Friezan | 1938 |
| The Sheik Steps Out | Ahmed Ben Nesib | 1937 |
| The Night Is Young | Archduke Paul 'Gustl' Gustave | 1935 |
| Laughing Boy | Laughing Boy | 1934 |
| The Cat and the Fiddle | Victor / Victor Florescu | 1934 |
| March of the Movies | Self - film clip | 1933 |
| The Barbarian | Jamil El Shehab | 1933 |
| The Son-Daughter | Tom Lee | 1932 |
| Huddle | Tony / Tony Amatto | 1932 |
| Sevilla de mis amores | Juan de Dios Carbajal | 1932 |
| Mata Hari | Lt. Alexis Rosanoff | 1931 |
| The Christmas Party | Ramon Navarro / Himself | 1931 |
| Son of India | Karim | 1931 |
| Wir schalten um auf Hollywood | Self | 1931 |
| Daybreak | Willi Kasder | 1931 |
| Le chanteur de Séville | Juan | 1931 |
| Call of the Flesh | Juan de Dios | 1930 |
| In Gay Madrid | Ricardo | 1930 |
| Devil-May-Care | Armand de Treville | 1929 |
| The Pagan | Henry Shoesmith, Jr. / Henry Shoesmith Jr. | 1929 |
| The Flying Fleet | Tommy Winslow | 1929 |
| A Certain Young Man | Lord Gerald Brinsley | 1928 |
| Across to Singapore | Joel Shore | 1928 |
| The Road to Romance | José Armando | 1927 |
| The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Prince Karl Heinrich | 1927 |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Ben-Hur / Judah Ben-Hur | 1925 |
| The Midshipman | Dick Randall | 1925 |
| A Lover's Oath | Ben Ali | 1925 |
| 1925 Studio Tour | Self | 1925 |
| The Red Lily | Jean Leonnec | 1924 |
| The Arab | Jamil Abdullah Azam | 1924 |
| Thy Name Is Woman | Juan Ricardo | 1924 |
| Scaramouche | André-Louis Moreau / André-Louis Moreau, alias 'Scaramouche' | 1923 |
| Where the Pavement Ends | Motauri | 1923 |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Rupert of Hentzau | 1922 |
| Mr. Barnes of New York | Antonio | 1922 |
| Man-Woman-Marriage | Dancer in Prologue / Dancer | 1921 |
| The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Guest at Ball | 1921 |
| The Concert | Dancing Shepherd | 1921 |
| The Woman God Forgot | Aztec man | 1917 |
| The Little American | Wounded Soldier | 1917 |
| The Jaguar's Claws | Bandit | 1917 |
| Joan the Woman | Starving Peasant | 1916 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Sevilla de mis amores | 1932 |
| Le chanteur de Séville | 1931 |
