Ramon Novarro

Biography

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.

Known For

Judah Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Lt. Alexis Rosanoff

Mata Hari

De Leon

Heller in Pink Tights

Colonel Adragon

Crisis

Chief

We Were Strangers

Inspector General Ortega

The Big Steal

Prince Karl Heinrich

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

Victor Florescu

The Cat and the Fiddle

The Hostage

Self (archive footage)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Joel Shore

Across to Singapore

Rupert of Hentzau

The Prisoner of Zenda

Self (archive footage)

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

Félix

La Comédie du bonheur

Don Antonio Chaves

The Outriders

Karim

Son of India

Henry Shoesmith Jr.

The Pagan

Jean Leonnec

The Red Lily

Tony

Huddle

Laughing Boy

Laughing Boy

Armand de Treville

Devil-May-Care

Tom Lee

The Son-Daughter

Archduke Paul 'Gustl' Gustave

The Night Is Young

Juan de Dios

Call of the Flesh

Jose

Lovers

Jamil El Shehab

The Barbarian

Ricardo

In Gay Madrid

Motauri

Where the Pavement Ends

Himself

The Christmas Party

Antonio

Mr. Barnes of New York

Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

The Little American

Guest at Ball (uncredited)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

José Armando

The Road to Romance

Sevilla de mis Amores

Willi Kasder

Daybreak

Tommy Winslow

The Flying Fleet

André-Louis Moreau, alias 'Scaramouche'

Scaramouche

Ahmed Ben Nesib

The Sheik Steps Out

André Friezan

A Desperate Adventure

Self

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

Self

Wir schalten um auf Hollywood

Juan Diego

La virgen que forjó una patria

Self

1925 Studio Tour

Ben Ali

A Lover's Oath

Starving Peasant

Joan the Woman

Aztec Man (uncredited)

The Woman God Forgot

Dancer (uncredited)

A Small Town Idol

Jamil Abdullah Azam

The Arab

(archive footage)

Twenty Years After

His Majesty, Michael IV

Forbidden Hours

Juan Ricardo

Thy Name Is Woman

Dancer

Man-Woman-Marriage

Henri / Ivan de Maupin

Trifling Women

Self

The Bible According to Hollywood

Dancer

A Small Town Idol

Lord Gerald Brinsley

A Certain Young Man

Dick Randall

The Midshipman

The Goat

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema

(archive footage)

Death In Hollywood

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

60

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-02-05

Place of Birth

Durango City, Durango, Mexico

Also Known As

Ramón Novarro