Rod La Rocque
Born: 1898-11-18 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 1969-10-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roderick Ross La Rocque (November 29, 1898 – October 15, 1969) was an American actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to Edmund La Rocque and Ann (née Rice) La Rocque. His father was of French-Canadian descent and his mother was of Irish descent. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the Essanay Studios as a teenager in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed. He then moved to New York City and worked on the stage until he was noticed by Samuel Goldwyn who took him to Hollywood. Over the next two decades, he appeared in films and made the transition to sound films. In 1927, he married Hungarian actress Vilma Bánky in a lavish and highly publicized wedding. They were married until his death in 1969. He retired from movies in 1941 and became a real estate broker. For his contribution to the film industry, La Rocque was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Filmography
1962
1941
- Meet John Doe as Ted Sheldon
1940
- Beyond Tomorrow as Phil Hubert
- Dr. Christian Meets the Women as Prof. Kenneth Parker
- Dark Streets of Cairo as Inspector Joachim
1939
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Phillippe
1938
- International Crime as Lamont Cranston / The Shadow
1937
- The Shadow Strikes as Lamont Cranston / The Shadow
1936
- The Preview Murder Mystery as Neil Du Beck
- Taming the Wild as Dick Clayton
- The Drag Net as Lawrence Thomas Jr.
- Till We Meet Again as Carl Schrottle
1935
- Mystery Woman as Jacques Benoit
- Hi, Gaucho! as Escurra, aka Captain Garcia
- Frisco Waterfront as Dan Elliott
1933
- S.O.S. Iceberg as Dr. Carl Lawrence
1930
- Let Us Be Gay as Bob Brown
- Beau Bandit as Montero
- One Romantic Night as Prince Albert
1929
- The Locked Door as Frank Devereaux
- The One Woman Idea as Prince Ahmed
- Our Modern Maidens as Glenn Abbott aka 'Dynamite'
- The Man and the Moment as Michel
- The Delightful Rogue as Lastro
1928
- Show People as Rod La Rocque (uncredited)
- The Circus: Premiere as Self
- Captain Swagger as Captain Swagger / Hugh Drummond
- Stand and Deliver as Roger Norman
- Hold 'Em Yale as Jaime Emmanuel Alvarado Montez
- Love Over Night as Richard Hill
1927
- Resurrection as Prince Dimitry Ivanitch Nekhludov
- The Fighting Eagle as Etienne Gerard
1926
- Gigolo as Gideon Gory
- The Cruise of the Jasper B as Jerry Cleggett
- Bachelor Brides
- Red Dice as Alan Beckwith
1925
- Braveheart as Braveheart
- Night Life of New York as Ronald Bentley
- Wild, Wild Susan as Tod Waterbury
- The Golden Bed as Admah Holtz
- The Coming of Amos as Amos Burden
1924
- Feet of Clay as Kerry Harlan
- Code of the Sea as Bruce McDow
- A Society Scandal as Daniel Farr
- Triumph as King Garnet
- Forbidden Paradise as Capt. Alexei Czerny
- Don't Call It Love as Patrick Delaney
1923
- The Ten Commandments as Dan McTavish
- The French Doll as Pedro Carrova
- Jazzmania as Jerry Langdon
1922
- Notoriety as Arthur Beal
- Slim Shoulders as Richard Langden
- A Woman's Woman as Dean Laddbarry
- What's Wrong with the Women? as Jack Lee
1921
- Suspicious Wives as Bob Standing
- Paying the Piper as Larry Grahame
1920
- Easy to Get as Dick Elliott
- The Discarded Woman as Samuel Radburn - Gold Digger
- The Stolen Kiss
- A Philistine in Bohemia as Mr. Brunelli
- The Garter Girl as Arthur Lyle
- The Common Sin as Hugh Stanton
1919
- Greater Than Love as Bob Standing
- Miss Crusoe as Harold Vance
- The Trap as The Blackmailer
1918
- A Perfect 36 as O.P. Dildock
- Let's Get a Divorce as Chauffeur
- The Venus Model as Paul Braddock
- A Perfect Lady as Bob Griswold
- Uneasy Money as Johnny Gates
- Ruggles of Red Gap as Belknap Jackson
1917
- The Dream Doll as Her Sweetheart
- Sadie Goes to Heaven as Coal Heaver
- Efficiency Edgar's Courtship as Wimple
- Filling His Own Shoes as Dick Downing