José Ramón Gil Samaniego (February 6, 1899 â€" October 30, 1968),
known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican-American film,
stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in
1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box office
attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s. Novarro was promoted by MGM
as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of
Rudolph Valentino.Novarro was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego on
February 6, 1899, in Durango City, Durango, north-west Mexico, to Dr.
Mariano N. Samaniego, and his wife, Leonor (Pérez Gavilán). The
family moved to Los Angeles to escape the Mexican Revolution in 1913.
Novarro's direct ancestors came from the Castilian town of Burgos,
whence two brothers emigrated to the New World in the seventeenth
century.Allan Ellenberger, Novarro's biographer, writes:
known professionally as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican-American film,
stage and television actor who began his career in silent films in
1917 and eventually became a leading man and one of the top box office
attractions of the 1920s and early 1930s. Novarro was promoted by MGM
as a "Latin lover" and became known as a sex symbol after the death of
Rudolph Valentino.Novarro was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego on
February 6, 1899, in Durango City, Durango, north-west Mexico, to Dr.
Mariano N. Samaniego, and his wife, Leonor (Pérez Gavilán). The
family moved to Los Angeles to escape the Mexican Revolution in 1913.
Novarro's direct ancestors came from the Castilian town of Burgos,
whence two brothers emigrated to the New World in the seventeenth
century.Allan Ellenberger, Novarro's biographer, writes:
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