Ramon Novarro
Acting1899Durango City, Durango, Mexico
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
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Judah Ben-Hur
Combat!
Count De Roy
The Big Steal
Inspector General Ortega
Mata Hari
Lt. Alexis Rosanoff
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Guest at Ball (uncredited)
Rawhide
Father Tasso
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
Prince Karl Heinrich
Acting History
2021
This Is Francis X. Bushman
as Judah Ben-Hur (Archive Footage)
2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1994
1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1968
The High Chaparral
TVas Padre Guillermo• 1 eps
1965
Combat!
TVas Count De Roy• 1 eps
1964
Dr. Kildare
TVas Gasparo Paolini• 3 eps
Rawhide
TVas Father Tasso• 1 eps
1962
Thriller
TVas Maestro Giuliano• 1 eps
1960
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
Heller in Pink Tights
as De Leon
1950
Crisis
as Colonel Adragon
The Outriders
as Don Antonio Chaves
1949
The Big Steal
as Inspector General Ortega
We Were Strangers
as Chief
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TVas Self
1944
Twenty Years After
as (archive footage)
1942
The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland
as Juan Diego
1940
Comedy of Happiness
as Félix
1939
A Small Town Idol
as Dancer
1938
A Desperate Adventure
as André Friezan
1937
The Sheik Steps Out
as Ahmed Ben Nesib
1936
1935
The Night Is Young
as Archduke Paul 'Gustl' Gustave
1934
The Cat and the Fiddle
as Victor Florescu
Laughing Boy
as Laughing Boy
1933
The Barbarian
as Jamil El Shehab
1932
Huddle
as Tony
The Son-Daughter
as Tom Lee
1931
Mata Hari
as Lt. Alexis Rosanoff
We’re Switching to Hollywood
as Self
Daybreak
as Willi Kasder
The Christmas Party
as Himself
Son of India
as Karim
The Singer of Seville
Director
1930
Call of the Flesh
as Juan de Dios
In Gay Madrid
as Ricardo
Sevilla de mis Amores
as Juan de Dios Carbajal
Sevilla de mis Amores
Director
1929
1928
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
as Prince Karl Heinrich
Across to Singapore
as Joel Shore
Forbidden Hours
as His Majesty, Michael IV
A Certain Young Man
as Lord Gerald Brinsley
1927
The Road to Romance
as José Armando
Lovers
as José
1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Judah Ben-Hur
1925 Studio Tour
as Self
A Lover's Oath
as Ben Ali
The Midshipman
as Dick Randall
1924
1923
Scaramouche
as André-Louis Moreau, alias 'Scaramouche'
Where the Pavement Ends
as Motauri
1922
Mr. Barnes of New York
as Antonio
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Rupert of Hentzau
Trifling Women
as Henri / Ivan de Maupin
1921
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Guest at Ball (uncredited)
A Small Town Idol
as Dancer (uncredited)
Man-Woman-Marriage
as Dancer
1918
1917
The Woman God Forgot
as Aztec Man (uncredited)
The Little American
as Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
1916
Joan the Woman
as Starving Peasant