Cesar Romero
Gender: Male
Born: 15th February 1907
Died: 1st January 1994
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Batman, The Colgate Comedy Hour, Falcon Crest, Passport to Danger, Burke's Law
Movies: Batman, Latitude Zero, Orchestra Wives, Diamond Jim, Coney Island, Frontier Marshal, Lust in the Dust, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Madigan's Millions, Vera Cruz, 15 Maiden Lane, Happy Go Lovely, Lost Continent, A House Is Not a Home, Skidoo, Now You See Him, Now You Don't, The Strongest Man in the World, Carnival in Costa Rica, FBI Girl, Wee Willie Winkie, Week-End in Havana, The Timber Tramps, Simple Justice, The Proud and the Damned, Lucky Cisco Kid, Love Before Breakfast, Wintertime, Two on a Guillotine, Seven Women from Hell, Lady in the Fog, British Agent, We Shall Return, Wife, Husband and Friend, That Lady in Ermine, Captain from Castile, Hot Millions, Springtime in The Rockies, Deep Waters, Clive of India, Rendezvous, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, Donovan's Reef, The Good Fairy, The Father Kino Story, Marriage on the Rocks, The Thin Man, My Lucky Star, The Great American Broadcast, A Little Princess, Metropolitan, Around the World in Eighty Days, Experiments in Terror, The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, If a Man Answers, Mortuary Academy, Love That Brute, A Talent for Loving, The Leather Saint, Ocean's Eleven, The Castilian, The Americano, Crooks and Coronets, The Devil is a Woman, If a Man Answers
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was an 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.
Romero was born in New York to an Italian-born father who was an importer-exporter of sugar refining machinery and a Cuban mother who was a concert singer. That lifestyle, however, changed dramatically when his parents lost their sugar import business and suffered losses in the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Fortunately, Romero's Hollywood earnings allowed him to support his large family, all of whom followed him to the West Coast, years later. Romero lived on and off with various family members, especially his sister, for the rest of his life.
In October 1942, he voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and served in the Pacific Theater. He reported aboard the Coast Guard-manned assault transport USS Cavalier in November, 1943. According to a press release from the period he saw action during the invasions of Tinian and Saipan. The
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