Romero, Cesar

Romero, Cesar
▪ 1995

      U.S. actor (b. Feb. 15, 1907, New York, N.Y.—d. Jan. 1, 1994, Santa Monica, Calif.), was a tall, debonair, and mustachioed film veteran whose diverse career encompassed roles as ingratiating playboys, engaging bandits, and likable scoundrels; he was best remembered for his portrayal of the Joker, an archvillain and master of puns on television's "Batman," and the silver screen's Cisco Kid, a Mexican rogue. Romero's good looks coupled with his Cuban heritage seemed likely to result in his being typecast as a "Latin lover," but his screen persona was more akin to a light parody of a gigolo. A onetime professional dancer, Romero made his film debut in 1934 in The Thin Man. After appearing opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Devil Is a Woman (1935), his first leading role, Romero seldom starred as a leading man and almost never got the girl. He appeared with Shirley Temple in Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and The Little Princess (1939) and with Sonja Henie in Happy Landing (1938) and Wintertime (1943). Romero was also featured in such musicals as The Great American Broadcast (1941), Weekend in Havana (1941), and Springtime in the Rockies (1942). He starred as the Joker in the film version of Batman (1966), reprising his role from the campy television series that ran from 1966 to 1968. Some of Romero's other credits include Diamond Jim (1935), The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939), The Gay Caballero (1940), Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and Donovan's Reef (1963). During the 1980s he portrayed Jane Wyman's husband on the television evening soap opera "Falcon Crest."

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