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- <text id=94TT0691>
- <title>
- May 30, 1994: Died:Gilbert Roland
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- May 30, 1994 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 21
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- <body>
- <p> DIED. GILBERT ROLAND, 88, film star, in Beverly Hills, California.
- The virile, magnetic son of a Mexican bullfighter, Roland had
- a career that ran from the silent era to well into the age of
- television--a half-century during which the quintessential
- Latin lover was praised for his powerful portrayal of the lover
- Armand in 1927's Camille opposite screen legend Norma Talmadge;
- appeared as the Cisco Kid, an Old West Robin Hood, in 11 pictures
- starting in the late '40s; costarred in some of the most famous
- movies of the day, including Mae West's She Done Him Wrong,
- the Errol Flynn swashbuckler The Sea Hawk, the John Garfield
- Cuban revolutionary saga We Were Strangers; and had his own
- star turn as an aged toreador in 1951's The Bullfighter and
- the Lady. Through the '50s and '60s, Roland was a constant presence
- on TV, with spots on fabled series like The Alfred Hitchcock
- Hour and The Fugitive.
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- </body>
- </article>
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