Cesar Romero

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Cesar Romero, photographed by Allan Warren, 1973

César Julio Romero, Jr. (born February 15, 1907 in New York City , USA , † January 1, 1994 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American actor .

life and career

César Julio Romero was born in New York City as the son of the Italian import-export trader in the sugar business César Julio Romero and the Cuban concert singer Maria Mantilla . His grandfather was the Cuban writer and poet José Martí . His father got him a job in a bank on Wall Street. At the same time, Romero made his debut as a dancer in 1927 and as an actor on Broadway in 1932 . With the stock market crash in 1929 on Black Thursday , his father lost almost all of his fortune. From then on, he had to use his income as an actor to help finance his two sisters, parents and his niece as well as his nephew.

Romero was able to sign a three-year contract with Universal Studios in the early 1930s , so that he did not star in films like The Skinny Man , The Devil Is a Woman and Spies You Can't Kiss. He was then hired by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox , where he played important supporting roles in films such as Recruit Willie Winkie , Six Fates and The Captain of Castile . Romero played a leading role in the western film series about the rough bandit The Cisco Kid , which was made in the early 1940s. He stayed with Fox for 15 years and served three years in the United States Coast Guard during World War II . After the studio system collapsed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he lost his contract with Fox after 15 years and from then on appeared in several small television series.

Romero achieved greater national and international fame through his embodiment of the Joker in the television series Batman , in which he appeared in 22 episodes from 1966 to 1968 and the film Batman keeps the world in suspense . For this role, he refused to shave off his mustache, fearing he would lose his trademark. In the Disney films , he also embodied the super brain in tennis shoes , It cracks, it hisses, there is nothing to see and The Retort Goliath at the side of Kurt Russell and Joe Flynn, the character of the villain AJ Arno .

In the 1970s and 1980s Romero only appeared sporadically and toured the country increasingly with the Dinner Theater . He appeared increasingly in individual episodes of television series such as Fantasy Island , Love Boat and Mord ist Her Hobby . His last major role was that of Peter Stavros , the husband of matriarch Angela Gioberti Channing, played by lead actress Jane Wyman , in the television series Falcon Crest , which he impersonated 51 episodes from 1985 to 1988.

On January 1, 1994, Romero died of a thrombus at St. John's Hospital and Health Center . He was originally treated there for bronchitis and pneumonia . The unmarried Romero was described as a "convinced single", a paraphrase for his homosexuality, which was not made public during his lifetime.

Romero has been immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars, which distinguish his cinematic work and his work on television.

Filmography (selection)

Cesar Romero, photographed by Carl van Vechten , 1934

Movies

TV Shows

  • 1954–1958: Passport to Danger (25 episodes)
  • 1958–1961: Adventures in the Wild West ( Zane Gray Theater , three episodes)
  • 1959: Zorro (four episodes)
  • 1963: 77-Sunset-Strip (five episodes)
  • 1963–1965: Amos Burke ( Burke's Law , five episodes)
  • 1966–1968: Batman (22 episodes)
  • 1971–1972: Alias ​​Smith and Jones ( Alias ​​Smith and Jones , three episodes)
  • 1979–1983: Fantasy Island (four episodes)
  • 1984–1986: Love Boat ( The Love Boat , four episodes)
  • 1985–1988: Falcon Crest (51 episodes)
  • 1985–1992: Murder is her hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , two episodes)
  • 1985–1986: Trio with four fists ( Riptide , two episodes)
  • 1990: Golden Girls (1st episode)

Web links

Commons : Cesar Romero  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Myrna Oliver: Cesar Romero, Suave Star for Over 60 Years, Dies at 86 on latimes.com from January 3, 1994 (English), accessed on May 20, 2012
  2. ^ A b Cesar Romero, Actor, Dies at 86; A Suave Player in Films and TV on nytimes.com on January 3, 1994, accessed May 20, 2012
  3. ↑ El actor César Romero muere a los 86 años a causa de una trombosis on elpais.com from January 3, 1994 (Spanish), accessed on May 20, 2012
  4. ^ Hail, Cesar on people.com, January 17, 1994 (English), accessed May 20, 2012
  5. ↑ Obituary: Cesar Romero on independent.co.uk of January 4, 1994 (English), accessed May 20, 2012
  6. ↑ Hadleigh Boze: Hollywood gays. Barricade Books, 1996, ISBN 1-56980-083-9 .
  7. ↑ David Hernandez: Broken Face in the Mirror. Dorrance Publishing, 2010, 130 pp., ISBN 1-4349-6484-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Romero, Cesar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romero, Cesar Julio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1994
Place of death Santa Monica , California