
Ramon Novarro
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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
Credits

Mata Hari (1931)
as Lt. Alexis Rosanoff

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
as Judah Ben-Hur

Twenty Years After (1944)
as (archive footage)

We Were Strangers (1949)
as Chief
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files (1992)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lovers (1927)
as José

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
as Self (archive footage)

The Midshipman (1925)
as Dick Randall
The Road to Romance (1927)
as José Armando

Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
as De Leon

The Outriders (1950)
as Don Antonio Chaves

Huddle (1932)
as Tony

Comedy of Happiness (1940)
as Félix

The Son-Daughter (1932)
as Tom Lee

Sevilla de mis Amores (1930)
as Juan de Dios Carbajal

In Gay Madrid (1930)
as Ricardo

The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
as Rupert of Hentzau

Son of India (1931)
as Karim

Crisis (1950)
as Colonel Adragon

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
as Guest at Ball (uncredited)

The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
as Victor Florescu

Across to Singapore (1928)
as Joel Shore

Forbidden Hours (1928)
as His Majesty, Michael IV

The Big Steal (1949)
as Inspector General Ortega

The Little American (1917)
as Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928)
as Prince Karl Heinrich

Man-Woman-Marriage (1921)
as Dancer

The Barbarian (1933)
as Jamil El Shehab

The Night Is Young (1935)
as Archduke Paul 'Gustl' Gustave

The Jaguar's Claws (1917)
as Bandit (uncredited)

Scaramouche (1923)
as André-Louis Moreau, alias 'Scaramouche'

Joan the Woman (1916)
as Starving Peasant

Death In Hollywood (1990)
Actor

The Christmas Party (1931)
as Himself

A Lover's Oath (1925)
as Ben Ali

The Flying Fleet (1929)
as Tommy Winslow

The Red Lily (1924)
as Jean Leonnec

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Bible According to Hollywood (1994)
as Self

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (1960)
as Self

Devil-May-Care (1929)
as Armand de Treville

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema (2002)
Actor

The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland (1942)
as Juan Diego

1925 Studio Tour (1925)
as Self

The Woman God Forgot (1917)
as Aztec Man (uncredited)

Call of the Flesh (1930)
as Juan de Dios

We’re Switching to Hollywood (1931)
as Self

A Small Town Idol (1921)
as Dancer (uncredited)

This Is Francis X. Bushman (2021)
as Judah Ben-Hur (Archive Footage)

The Pagan (1929)
as Henry Shoesmith Jr.

Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Self (archive footage)

A Small Town Idol (1939)
as Dancer

The Goat (1918)
Actor

Daybreak (1931)
as Willi Kasder

The Sheik Steps Out (1937)
as Ahmed Ben Nesib

Where the Pavement Ends (1923)
as Motauri

Laughing Boy (1934)
as Laughing Boy

The Hostage (1917)
Actor

Mr. Barnes of New York (1922)
as Antonio

The Arab (1924)
as Jamil Abdullah Azam

A Desperate Adventure (1938)
as André Friezan

Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
as Juan Ricardo

Trifling Women (1922)
as Henri / Ivan de Maupin

A Certain Young Man (1928)
as Lord Gerald Brinsley




