Cesar Romero
Born: 1907-02-15 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 1994-01-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was a Cuban-American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years. His wide range of screen roles included Latin lovers, historical figures in costume dramas, characters in light domestic comedies, and as The Joker in television's Batman series.
Filmography
2020
- 3-D Rarities: Volume II as (archive)
2018
- Heart of Batman as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe as Self (archive footage)
2010
- 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage)
2003
- Experiments in Terror
- Batman: Holy Batmania! as The Joker / Himself
2001
- Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes as Joker (archive footage)
1995
- Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business as Self
- Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice as Self
1993
1992
1989
- Simple Justice as Vincenzo DiLorenzo
1988
- Judgement Day as Octavio
- Mortuary Academy as Ship's Captain
1987
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood as Self
1986
1985
- The Golden Girls as Tony
- Flesh and Bullets as Santa Monica Judge
- Lust in the Dust as Father Garcia
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Marcello Abruzzi
1982
- Matt Houston as Gantry
1981
- Falcon Crest as Peter Stavros
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Doc Villoroch
1979
- Hart to Hart
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Amos Armat
1978
- Vega$ as Christopher Vincente
1977
- Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready as Teodoro Bruzizi
- Mission to Glory: A True Story as Juan Atondo
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Elton Mills
- Carioca Tigre as Don Rosalindo Y Guana
1975
- Ellery Queen as Armand Danello
- Timber Tramps as Greedy sawmill mogul
- The Strongest Man in the World as A.J. Arno
1974
- Chico and the Man
- The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe as Dr. Richard Grimaldi
- The Haunted Mouth as B. Plaque (Narrator)
1972
- Banacek as Marius Avantalu
- The Proud and Damned as San Carlos' Mayor
- Now You See Him, Now You Don't as A.J. Arno
1971
- Alias Smith and Jones
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- Mooch Goes to Hollywood as Cesar Romero (uncredited)
- The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World as Self
- Once Upon a Wheel as Self
1970
- Night Gallery as Count Dracula
- Nanny and the Professor
- The Red, White, and Black as Col. Grierson
1969
- Love, American Style
- Medical Center
- Midas Run as Carlo Dodero
- Latitude Zero as Dr. Malic / Lt. Hastings
- Target: Harry as Lt. George Duval
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes as A.J. Arno
- A Talent for Loving as Landbesitzer
- Crooks and Coronets as Nick Marco
1968
- Julia
- Here's Lucy as Tony Rivera
- It Takes a Thief as Mike
- The Mod Squad
- Skidoo as Hechy
- Hot Millions as Customs Inspector
- Madigan's Millions as Mike Madigan
1967
- Ironside as Tony Hudson
1966
- Batman as The Joker
- Clown Alley as Clown
- ABC Stage 67
- Batman as The Joker
1965
- Get Smart
- Branded
- Sergeant Deadhead as Admiral Stoneham
- Broken Sabre as General Arriola
- Marriage on the Rocks as Miguel Santos
- Two on a Guillotine as John Harley 'Duke' Duquesne
- Salute to Stan Laurel as Self
- Uncertain Verification as (archive footage)
1964
- Bewitched
- Daniel Boone as Esteban de Vaca
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Victor Gervais
- A House Is Not a Home as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
1963
- Burke's Law as Marcus DeGrute
- Donovan's Reef as Andre de Lage
- The Castilian as Jerónimo
- We Shall Return as Carlos Rodriguez
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Beachcomber as Krasny
- If a Man Answers as Robert Swan / Adam Wright
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Paul Marino
- Ben Casey
- Target: The Corruptors!
- Follow the Sun
- Seven Women from Hell as Luis Hullman
- The Runaway as Father Dugan
1960
- Ocean's Eleven as Duke Santos
- Pepe as Cesar Romero
- Pete and Gladys
- Stagecoach West as Francisco Martinez
- The Chevy Mystery Show as Prince Florizel
1959
- Rawhide as Big Tim Sloan
- Mis secretarias privadas
1958
- 77 Sunset Strip as Lorenzo Cestari
- The Texan as Captain Joaquin Acosta
- Villa!! as Tomás Lopez
1957
- Zorro as Esteban de la Cruz
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Carlos Garcia
- The Story of Mankind as Spanish Envoy
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Carlos Gandara
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show as Self
- Around the World in 80 Days as Abdullah's Henchman
- The Leather Saint as Tony Lorenzo
- The Ford Show as Self
- Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower as Mambo Teacher
1955
- The Americano as Manuel Silvera / 'El Gato' / Barbossa
- The Racers as Carlos Chavez
1954
- Climax! as Mendy Mendez
- Vera Cruz as Marquis Henri de Labordere
- Studio 57 as Duke Thompson
- The George Gobel Show as Self
- The Sword of Granada as Don Pedro de Rivera
- Passport to Danger
1953
- Prisoners of the Casbah as Firouz
- Street of Shadows as Luigi
1952
- The Jungle as Rama Singh
- The Ford Television Theatre
- Lady in the Fog as Philip 'Phil' O'Dell
- Death Valley Days as Don Augustin Olvera
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Big Bill - Racketeer
- Lost Continent as Maj. Joe Nolan
- FBI Girl as Glen Stedman
- Happy Go Lovely as John Frost
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Panelist
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Lux Video Theatre as Andre Casell
- Once a Thief as Mitch Moore
- Love That Brute as Pretty Willie Wetzchahofsky
- Shooting Stars as Self
1949
- The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend as Blackie Jobero
1948
- Studio One as Pat De Carlo
- Julia Misbehaves as Fred Ghenoccio
- Deep Waters as Joe Sanger
- That Lady in Ermine as Count Mario
1947
- Captain from Castile as Hernando Cortez
- Carnival in Costa Rica as Pepe Castro
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Take It or Leave It as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1943
- Coney Island as Joe Rocco
- Wintertime as Brad Barton
1942
- Tales of Manhattan as Harry Wilson
- A Gentleman at Heart as Tony Miller
- Orchestra Wives as St. John "Sinjin" Smith
- Springtime in the Rockies as Victor Prince
1941
- The Great American Broadcast as Bruce Chadwick
- Ride on Vaquero as The Cisco Kid
- Tall, Dark and Handsome as J.J. "Shep" Morrison
- Romance of the Rio Grande as The Cisco Kid
- Week-End in Havana as Monte Blanca
- Dance Hall as Duke McKay
- Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 as Self
1940
- Viva Cisco Kid as The Cisco Kid
- Lucky Cisco Kid as The Cisco Kid
- The Gay Caballero as The Cisco Kid
- He Married His Wife as Freddie
1939
- The Little Princess as Ram Dass
- The Cisco Kid and the Lady as The Cisco Kid
- Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 as Cesar Romero
- Frontier Marshal as John 'Doc' Halliday
- The Return of the Cisco Kid as Lopez
- Charlie Chan at Treasure Island as Fred Rhadini
- Wife, Husband and Friend as Hugo
- Hollywood Hobbies as Self (uncredited)
1938
- Always Goodbye as Count Giovanni 'Gino' Corini
- Happy Landing as Duke Sargent
- Five of a Kind as Duke Lester
- My Lucky Star as George Cabot Jr
1937
- Armored Car as Petack
- Dangerously Yours as Victor Morell
- Wee Willie Winkie as Khoda Khan
- Ali Baba Goes to Town as Himself
- She's Dangerous as Nick Sheldon, alias Al Shaw
1936
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) as Self
- Love Before Breakfast as Bill Wadsworth
- Public Enemy's Wife as Gene Maroc
- Nobody's Fool as Dizzy Rantz
- 15 Maiden Lane as Frank Peyton
1935
- Rendezvous as Capt. Nicholas 'Nikki' Nieterstein
- Cardinal Richelieu as Andre de Pons
- Metropolitan as Niki Baroni
- Diamond Jim as Jerry Richardson
- The Devil Is a Woman as Antonio Galvan
- The Good Fairy as Joe
- Clive of India as Mir Jaffar
- Hold 'Em Yale as Georgie, the Chaser
- A Dream Comes True as Himself (uncredited)
- Show Them No Mercy! as Tobey
1934
- British Agent as Tito Del Val
- The Thin Man as Chris Jorgenson
- Cheating Cheaters as Tom Palmer
- Strange Wives as Boris
1933
- The Shadow Laughs as Tony Rico