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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.
Birth Name
Roderick Ross LaRocque
Born
Sunday, 20 November 1898
Died
Wednesday, 15 October 1969
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Great Chase | (archive footage) | 1962 |
Hollywood: The Golden Years | Actor 'Resurrection' | 1961 |
This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
Meet John Doe | Ted Sheldon | 1941 |
Dark Streets of Cairo | Inspector Joachim | 1940 |
Dr. Christian Meets the Women | Prof. Kenneth Parker | 1940 |
Beyond Tomorrow | Phil Hubert | 1940 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Phillippe | 1939 |
International Crime | Lamont Cranston | 1938 |
The Shadow Strikes | Lamont Granston / Lamont Cranston | 1937 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Great Chase | (archive footage) | 1962 |
Hollywood: The Golden Years | Actor 'Resurrection' | 1961 |
This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
Meet John Doe | Ted Sheldon | 1941 |
Dark Streets of Cairo | Inspector Joachim | 1940 |
Dr. Christian Meets the Women | Prof. Kenneth Parker | 1940 |
Beyond Tomorrow | Phil Hubert | 1940 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Phillippe | 1939 |
International Crime | Lamont Cranston | 1938 |
The Shadow Strikes | Lamont Granston / Lamont Cranston | 1937 |
Clothes and the Woman | Eric Thrale | 1937 |
The Drag-Net | Lawrence Thomas Jr. | 1936 |
Till We Meet Again | Carl Schrottle | 1936 |
The Preview Murder Mystery | Joe Walker / Neil DuBeck | 1936 |
Taming the Wild | Dick Clayton | 1936 |
Frisco Waterfront | Dan Elliott | 1935 |
Hi, Gaucho! | Escurra, aka Captain Garcia | 1935 |
Mystery Woman | Jacques Benoit | 1935 |
S.O.S. Iceberg | Dr. Carl Lawrence | 1933 |
The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
Let Us Be Gay | Bob Brown | 1930 |
One Romantic Night | Prince Albert | 1930 |
Beau Bandit | Montero | 1930 |
The Locked Door | Frank Devereaux | 1929 |
The Delightful Rogue | Lastro | 1929 |
Our Modern Maidens | Glenn Abbott / Glenn Abbott aka 'Dynamite' | 1929 |
The Man and the Moment | Michael Towne / Michel | 1929 |
The One Woman Idea | Prince Ahmed | 1929 |
Love Over Night | Richard Hill | 1928 |
Show People | Rod La Rocque | 1928 |
Captain Swagger | Captain Swagger / Hugh Drummond | 1928 |
Hold 'Em Yale | Jaime Emmanuel Alvarado Montez | 1928 |
Stand and Deliver | Roger Norman | 1928 |
The Circus: Premiere | Himself | 1928 |
The Fighting Eagle | Etienne Gerard | 1927 |
The Cruise of the Jasper B | Jerry Cleggett | 1926 |
Gigolo | Gideon Gory | 1926 |
Bachelor Brides | Percy Ashfield - Earl of Duncraggan | 1926 |
Red Dice | Alan Beckwith | 1926 |
Braveheart | Braveheart | 1925 |
Wild, Wild Susan | Tod Waterbury | 1925 |
The Coming of Amos | Amos Burden | 1925 |
Night Life of New York | Ronald Bentley | 1925 |
The Golden Bed | Admah Holtz | 1925 |
Feet of Clay | Kerry Harlan | 1924 |
Code of the Sea | Bruce McDow | 1924 |
Triumph | King Garnet | 1924 |
A Society Scandal | Daniel Farr | 1924 |
Phantom Justice | Kingsley | 1924 |
Don't Call It Love | Patrick Delaney | 1924 |
Forbidden Paradise | Capt. Alexei Czerny | 1924 |
The Ten Commandments | Dan McTavish - Her Son / Dan McTavish | 1923 |
The French Doll | Pedro Carrova | 1923 |
Jazzmania | Jerry Langdon | 1923 |
A Woman's Woman | Dean Laddbarry | 1922 |
Slim Shoulders | Richard Langden | 1922 |
What's Wrong with the Women? | Jack Lee | 1922 |
Suspicious Wives | Bob Standing | 1921 |
Life | Tom Burnett | 1920 |
The Discarded Woman | Samuel Radburn - Gold Digger | 1920 |
Easy to Get | Dick Elliott | 1920 |
A Philistine in Bohemia | Mr. Brunelli | 1920 |
The Garter Girl | Arthur Lyle | 1920 |
Miss Crusoe | Harold Vance | 1919 |
Love and the Woman | Walter Pemberton | 1919 |
A Perfect Lady | Bob Griswold | 1918 |
A Perfect 36 | O.P. Dildock | 1918 |
Hidden Fires | George Landis | 1918 |
The Venus Model | Paul Braddock | 1918 |
Let's Get a Divorce | Chauffeur | 1918 |
Sadie Goes to Heaven | Coal Heaver | 1917 |
Filling His Own Shoes | Dick Downing | 1917 |
The Prince of Graustark | 1916 | |
The Little Shepherd of Bargain Row | 1916 | |
The Alster Case | Allen Longstreet | 1915 |