Cesar Romero
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. ( * February 15, 1907 in New York City, USA, † January 1, 1994 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American actor.
Life and career
Cesar Julio Romero was born as the son of Italian import-export trader in the sugar business Cesar Julio Romero and Cuban concert singer Maria Mantilla in New York City. His grandfather was the Cuban writer and poet José Martí. His father gave him a job in a bank on Wall Street. In parallel, Romero debuted in 1927 as a dancer and as an actor on Broadway in 1932. With the 1929 stock market crash on Black Thursday his father almost lost his entire fortune. From then on he had to co-finance as an actor, his two sisters, parents, and his niece and his nephew with his earnings.
He could sign a three-year contract with Universal Studios in the early 1930s, so he. In films such as The Thin Man, The Devil Is a Woman and spies Up Baby did not cooperate He was poached by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox then, where he starred in such films as Wee Willie Winkie, six destinies and The Captain from Castile. He stayed 15 years at Fox and made during the Second World War, three years his military service in the United States Coast Guard from. After the studio system in the late 1940s, collapsed in the early 1950s, he lost after 15 years of his contract with Fox and entered from then on in several small television series.
Larger national, and international notoriety gained Romero by his portrayal of Joker in the Batman television series in which he appeared from 1966 until 1968 in 22 episodes and the movie Batman holds the world in suspense. For this role, he refused to shave off his mustache because he feared losing his trademark. He also embodied in the Disney movies Wore Tennis Shoes, It crashes, it hisses, To have seen is nothin ' and the retort Goliath on the side of Kurt Russell and Joe Flynn, the figure of the rogue AJ Arno.
In the 1970s and 1980s Romero occurred only sporadically and toured more with the dinner theater across the country. He stepped increases in individual episodes of television series such as Iceland Fantasy, Love Boat and Murder, She Wrote on. His last major role was that of Peter Stavros, husband of matriarch Angela Gioberti Channing, played by actress Jane Wyman, in the television series Falcon Crest, which he played 51 episodes from 1985 to 1988.
On 1 January 1994 Romero died of a thrombus in the St. John's Hospital and Health Center. Originally he was treated there because of bronchitis and pneumonia. As a " staunch single" He was never married.
On the Hollywood Walk of Fame Romero is immortalized with two stars, which are characterized his work in film and his work on television.