Cesar Romero, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934

Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was an American actor. He was born in New York from Cuban parents and played "Latin lovers" in films from the 1930s until the 1950s, usually in supporting roles. He starred as The Cisco Kid in six westerns made between 1939 and 1941. In 1966, he played The Joker in the Batman television series. He refused to shave his trademark mustache and so it was covered with white makeup when playing the supervillain throughout the series' run.

His grandfather on his mother's side was Cuban poet and patriot José Martí and he was a believer in liberation theology.

On his passing in 1994, Cesar Romero was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

Filmography

• The Shadow Laughs (1933)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• British Agent (1934)
• Cheating Cheaters (1934)
• Strange Wives (1934)
• A Dream Comes True (1935) (short subject)
• Clive of India (1935)
• The Good Fairy (1935)
• The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
• Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
• Hold 'Em Yale (1935)
• Diamond Jim (1935)
• Metropolitan (1935)
• Rendezvous (1935)
• Show Them No Mercy! (1935)
• Love Before Breakfast (1936)
• Nobody's Fool (1936)
• Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
• Fifteen Maiden Lane (1936)
• She's Dangerous (1937)
• Armored Car (1937)
• Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
• Dangerously Yours (1937)
• Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937) (Cameo)
• Happy Landing (1938)
• Always Goodbye (1938)
• Five of a Kind (1938)
• My Lucky Star (1938)
• Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
• The Little Princess (1939)
• Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)
• Hollywood Hobbies (1939) (short subject)
• Frontier Marshal (1939)
• Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
• The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939)
• He Married His Wife (1940)
• Viva Cisco Kid (1940)
• Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)
• The Gay Caballaro (1940)
• Dance Hall (1941)
• Romance of the Rio Grande (1941)
• Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)
• Ride on Vaquero (1941)
• The Great American Broadcast (1941)
• Week-End in Havana (1941)
• A Gentleman at Heart (1942)
• Tales of Manhattan (1942)
• Orchestra Wives (1942)
• Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
• Coney Island (1943)
• Wintertime (1943)
• (1946) (short subject)
• Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
• Captain from Castile (1947)
• Deep Waters (1948)
• Julia Misbehaves (1948)
• That Lady in Ermine (1948)
• The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
• (1949) (short subject)
• Love That Brute (1950)
• Once a Thief (1950)
• Happy Go Lovely (1951)
• Lost Continent (1951)
• FBI Girl (1951)
• The Jungle (1952)
• Scotland Yard Inspector (1952)
• Street of Shadows (1953)
• Prisoners of the Casbah (1953)
• Vera Cruz (1954)
• The Americano (1955)
• The Racers (1955)
• The Heart and the Sword (1956)
• The Leather Saint (1956)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
• The Story of Mankind (1957)
• Villa!! (1958)
• My Private Secretaries (1959)
• Ocean's Eleven (1960)
• Pepe (1960) (Cameo)
• The Seven Women from Hell (1961)
• We Shall Return (1962)
• If a Man Answers (1962)
• Saint Mike (1963)
• The Castilian (1963)
• Donovan's Reef (1963)
• A House Is Not a Home (1964)
• Two on a Guillotine (1965)
• Sergeant Dead Head (1965)
• Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
• Broken Sabre (1966)
• Batman (1966)
• Once Upon a Wheel (1968) (documentary)
• Madigan's Millions (1968)
• Hot Millions (1968)
• Skidoo (1968)
• (1969)
• A Talent for Loving (1969)
• Crooks and Coronets (1969)
• Midas Run (1969)
• Latitude Zero (1969)
• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
• The Red, White, and Black (1970)
• Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971)
• The Last Generation (1971)
• The Proud and the Damned (1972)
• Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
• The Haunted Mouth (1974) (short subject)
• The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974)
• The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
• Timber Tramps (1975)
• Carioca Tiger (1976)
• (1977)
• Lust in the Dust (1985)
• Flesh and Bullets (1985)
• Mortuary Academy (1988)
• Judgement Day (1988)
• Simple Justice (1990)
• A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
• (1995) (documentary)

External link

• IMDB biography
• The 1966 Batman TV Villains - Cesar Romero