Ramon Novarro
Popularity:0.273
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1899-02-05
Place of Birth:Durango City, Durango, Mexico
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Also Known As:Ramón Novarro, Ramon Samaniego, Ramon Samaniegos, The Latin Lover, Jose Ramón Gil Samaniego

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

Mata Hari (1931)
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading...

Crisis (1950)
An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

We Were Strangers (1949)
China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with...

The Big Steal (1949)
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief's...

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928)
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.

The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

The Hostage (1917)
The Highlanders and Lowlanders are sworn enemies until Lieutenant Kemper, the son of Brigadier Kemper, the leader of the militaristic Lowlanders, is...

Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Across to Singapore (1928)
While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their...

The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer...

Comedy of Happiness (1940)
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...

The Outriders (1950)
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate...

Son of India (1931)
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.

The Pagan (1929)
Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with...

The Red Lily (1924)
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor...

Huddle (1932)
Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...

Laughing Boy (1934)
A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.

Devil-May-Care (1929)
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.

The Son-Daughter (1932)
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.

The Night Is Young (1935)
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...

Call of the Flesh (1930)
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent.

Lovers (1927)
Young José lives with his guardian, Don Julian, a middle-aged diplomat recently married to young Felicia. Society gossips in Madrid find the...

The Barbarian (1933)
An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

In Gay Madrid (1930)
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to...

Where the Pavement Ends (1923)
South Seas romantic drama. This is a lost Silent film, that no negative of or print materials from are known to exist.

The Christmas Party (1931)
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

Mr. Barnes of New York (1922)
An English naval officer and a Corsican youth have a duel, and the Corsican is killed. The young man's sister, Marina Paoli, swears vengeance on the...

The Little American (1917)
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality...

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being...

The Road to Romance (1927)
The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to...

Sevilla de mis Amores (1930)
Spanish version of MGM's Call of the flesh

Daybreak (1931)
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

The Flying Fleet (1929)
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes...

Scaramouche (1923)
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who...

The Sheik Steps Out (1937)
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.

A Desperate Adventure (1938)
In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his well-meaning friends have stolen one of his...

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (1960)
A look at the past, present and future of Hollywood as seen through the eyes of the movie columnist.

We're switching to Hollywood (1931)
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak...

The Virgin who Forged a Fatherland (1942)
On the eve of the Grito de Dolores and faced with the threat of being arrested by the viceregal government, Miguel Hidalgo suggested to Captain...

1925 Studio Tour (1925)
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

A Lover's Oath (1925)
"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe"...

Joan the Woman (1916)
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.

The Woman God Forgot (1917)
Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. He is recaptured when her lover...

The Arab (1924)
Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his regiment but later returns to save children of a...

A Small Town Idol (1921)
Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local...

Twenty Years After (1944)
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Forbidden Hours (1928)
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood....

Thy Name Is Woman (1924)
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.

Man-Woman-Marriage (1921)
Victoria marries David, the man of her dreams. After a number of years and two children, the marriage turns out not to be what she had expected. Then...

Trifling Women (1922)
Leon de Severac is fed up with his daughter Jacqueline, who is constantly seducing men. Hoping to discourage her from her flirtatious behavior, he...

The Bible According to Hollywood (1994)
Filmmaker Phillip Dye's documentary explores the many biblical adaptations Hollywood has produced throughout the years, including The Ten...

A Small Town Idol (1939)
In Sleepytown, cross-eyed Sam Smith and Mary Brown are about to get married. But the scoundrel, Jim Jones, wants Mary for himself. Jim uses a...

A Certain Young Man (1928)
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conquests, meets a young American lady on the train,...

The Midshipman (1925)
Produced under the supervision of the U.S. Navy. James Randall, an upperclassman at the Naval Academy, falls in love with Patricia Lawrence, the...

Combat! (1962)
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The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
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Rawhide (1959)
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with...

The High Chaparral (1967)
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Thriller (1960)
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Dr. Kildare (1961)
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the...

Arena (1975)
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