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Ramón Gil Samaniego (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968), known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor. He began his career in American silent films in 1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box-office attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Jan 16, 2023 · Ramon Novarro was a leading man in the silent film era, but in 1968 he was brutally murdered for being gay. This is the story of his tragic death.
Ramon Novarro was a Mexican-born actor who starred in silent and early sound films, such as Ben-Hur and Mata Hari. He was murdered in 1968 by two hustlers who mistook his home for a bank.
Aug 24, 2003 · On the evening of Oct. 30, 1968, Ramon Novarro, once one of Hollywood’s greatest romantic idols, now 68 and frail, looking like “a Spanish grandee” in a red and blue robe, opened the door of ...
Ramon Novarro. Actor: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Ramon Novarro was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego on February 6, 1899 in Durango, Mexico, to Leonor (Gavilan) and Dr. Mariano N. Samaniego Siqueiros, a prosperous dentist.
May 11, 2003 · A biography of Hollywood's first Latin American leading man, who starred in "Scaramouche" and "Ben Hur". The book covers his early aspirations, his celluloid mythmaking, his struggles with studio excess and his tragic end.
R amon Novarro was a swashbuckling star of silent films and early talkies who later became a television character actor. The Mexican-born actor was, with Rudolph Valentino, one of...
