Cesar Romero Filmography

Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business

Synopsis: The complex life of the woman who came to personify Latin America in the minds of millions of North American moviegoers during the '30s, '40s, and '50s is the focus of this documentary. But while the spunky Miranda with her distinctive fruity hats was very popular in the North, she was not so Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Milan

Synopsis: Season Nine of Murder, She Wrote gets under way with an episode set at a Milan Film Festival, where Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is attending the premiere of a movie based on one of her novels. The film's producer Catherine Wayne (Susan Blakely) is as well known for her string of box-office Read More

Preston Sturges: The Rise And Fall of An American Dreamer

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Thomas Quinn Curtiss, Betty Hutton, A.C. Lyles

Synopsis: This documentary, made for PBS' American Masters series, explores the life and career of the renowned screenwriter and director Preston Sturges (1898-1959), whose few but very influential films managed to change the entire film industry. The documentary features clips from his films, and Read More

Simple Justice

Actors: Cesar Romero, Doris Roberts, Cady Mc Clain, John Spencer

Synopsis: When a group of criminals shoot all of the witnesses to their bank robbery, one woman (Cady McClain) survives her injuries. As the crooks discover that a witness survived their massacre, they begin to threaten her family to frighten them into withholding testimony. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

Mortuary Academy

Actors: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Perry Lang, Tracey Walter, Christopher Atkins

Synopsis: Sam Grimm (Perry Lang) and his brother Max (Christopher Atkins) stand to inherit the mortuary academy that bears their family name in this black comedy. The two brothers must first graduate, and their progress is monitored by school manager Dr. Paul Truscott (Paul Bartell) and the academy's top Read More

Judgement Day

Actors: Ken McLeod, Dave Smith, Monte Markham, Cesar Romero, Gloria Hayes

Synopsis: Shot in the Philippines, this campy but enjoyably surreal occult thriller finds a quartet of wayward college kids trapped in the cursed village of Santana, a town whose founders made a pact with Satan centuries ago to spare themselves from a plague epidemic. It seems the villagers' end of the Read More

Falcon Crest: Season 06

Actors: Jane Wyman, Cesar Romero, Kim Novak, Robert Stack, David Selby

Synopsis: Although the earthquake that ended Season Five of Falcon Crest resulted in only minimal damage (aside from a few quick exits by certain supporting characters), there is still plenty of "shaking" as the series enters its sixth season. For starters, unscrupulous newspaper owner Richard Channing Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Little Games

Synopsis: While playing a video game called "Dungeon Master", Magnum manages to mess up the computerized security system at Robin's Nest. Enter security expert Krista Villaroch (Jenny Agutter), who is hired to get the system up and running in time for a jewelry exhibit being held at the estate. The Read More

Flesh and Bullets

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo

Falcon Crest: Season 05

Actors: Jane Wyman, Cesar Romero, David Selby, Robert Foxworth, Susan Sullivan

Synopsis: Season Five of Falcon Crest finds ruthless winery owner Angela Channing (Jane Wyman) once again under siege, this time from Cassandra Wilder (Anne Archer), who intends to destroy Angela and her business to avenge past wrongs committed by Angela against the Wilder family. Facing financial ruin Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Paint Me a Murder

Synopsis: This time out, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is vacationing on an idyllic Mediterranean island, which is also the retreat of famous artist Diego Santana (Cesar Romero). The placid mood is shattered when an attempt is made on Santana's life. A second murder attempt, occurring at Santana's birthday Read More

Lust in the Dust

Actors: Tab Hunter, Divine, Lainie Kazan, Geoffrey Lewis, Henry Silva

Synopsis: A controversial spoof on the Spaghetti western (some love it, some hate it), Lust in the Dust features the 300-pound Divine as the inimitable Rosie Velez, riding into view in full drag on a poor donkey as solemn commentary muddles on about the passions that enslave men and women -- and then Rosie Read More

Monster

Synopsis: A delightfully horribly sci-fi horror outing, Monster is the story of young people whose lives are placed in jeopardy by the presence of a gigantic prehistoric lake monster created from toxic waste. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Synopsis: This adventure is based upon the true life exploits of 17th-century missionary, Father Francisco "Kino" Kin who was instrumental in developing the Southwest and fought hard to keep the murderous conquistadors from slaughtering the Apaches. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kino, the Padre on Horseback

Synopsis: A California mission priest encounters many trials in the Old West. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Big Push

Synopsis: When a couple of ruthless businessmen threaten her logging camp, a defenseless widow is aided by a group of Alaskan lumberjacks. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Strongest Man in the World

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers

Synopsis: Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this follow-up to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. In this story, Dexter is trying to devise a formula for a chemistry project that will increase Read More

Ironside: The Last Cotillion

Synopsis: Aging socialite Athena Champion (Kim Hunter) desperately seeks out the aid of her friend Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr). Several elderly men have recently been murdered--all of them old boyfriends of Athena who had attended her debutante's ball. Suffering from the early stages of Alzheimers' Read More

Banacek: The Vanishing Chalice

Synopsis: The vanishing chalice is a rare Greek treasure that disappears from a museum. That's not all; the chalice vanishes while in full view of a group of nonplussed witnesses. This sounds like a case for troubleshooting detective Banacek (George Peppard) -- and indeed, it is, in this episode from the Banacek Read More

The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe

Synopsis: With only the slightest basis in fact, this horror film purports to chronicle an incident from the life of Edgar Allen Poe. It has to do with his mad 13-year-old cousin Lenore, whom Poe deeply loved. She is insane and lives in an asylum. Poe visits there and discovers that the hospital is but a Read More

Doin' What the Crowd Does

Synopsis: A fictional tale of the death of Poe's lover Lenore. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Actors: Joyce Menges, Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Jim Backus, William Windom

Synopsis: If anyone is interested in seeing what Kurt Russell used to do before transforming into Snake Plissken in Escape From New York, they can look no further than this labored Disney slapstick marzipan sequel to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. Kurt Russell, once again, is Dexter Riley, a science major Read More

The Buffalo Soldiers

Actors: Robert DoQui, Janee Michelle, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Rafer Johnson, Isaac Fields

Synopsis: A US Army Colonel (Cesar Romero) and his wife (Barbara Hale) relate their stories about the all black 10th cavalry unit formed after the Civil War. Eli (Robert Do'Qui) is one the new recruits being trained by two veteran troopers (Rafer Johnson & Isaac Fields). Julie (Janee Michelle) is the young Read More

Bewitched: Salem Here We Come

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White, Jane Connell

Synopsis: In this sequel to the previous week's episode "To Go or Not to Go, That Is the Question," the Stephenses are still playing reluctant hosts to Hepzibah (Jane Connell), high priestess of all witches and warlocks. It is important to curry favor with Hepzibah, who holds the future of Darrin and Read More

The Proud and the Damned

Actors: Chuck Connors, Aron Kincaid, Cesar Romero, Jose Greco, Henry Capps

Synopsis: Will (Chuck Connors) leads a group of American Civil War veterans into San Carlos, Columbia. The local mayor (Cesar Romero) welcomes the quintet, unaware they are scouting out the town for Columbian General Martinez (Andre Maruis). Soon the visitors are reveling with gypsies Mila (Anita Quinn) and Read More

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Actors: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert, Alan Hewitt

Synopsis: This film is another Disney comedy romp that takes place at the ubiquitous Medfield College. The plot kicks in when an interview, in which Professor Quigley (William Schallert) is denied a much-needed computer by apoplectic college president Dean Higgins (Joe Flynn), is broadcast to a student Read More

Midas Run

Actors: Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire, Ralph Richardson, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for prominent career advancements. John Pedley (Fred Astaire) is the agent who has been passed over for knighthood one too many times for his liking. He proposes a plan to university Read More

Target: Harry

Actors: Vic Morrow, Suzanne Pleshette, Victor Buono, Cesar Romero, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: Set up like a version of the Maltese Falcon, this routine detective yarn by Roger Corman features Vic Morrow as Harry Black, a hard-living, tough-skinned American in trouble. Two dangerous factions want to get their hands on some engraving plates stolen from the British mint, and Harry is trapped Read More

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

Actors: Edward Andrews, Soupy Sales, Avery Schreiber

Synopsis: Filmed in 1969, Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready remained on the shelf until December 18, 1977. On that evening, it was discreetly offered as an NBC Sunday Night Movie presentation. If the film resembles an old Bob Hope comedy, it may be because it was put together by Hope's son-in-law Read More

A Talent for Loving

Synopsis: Richard Widmark stars as a professional gambler who finds himself financially embarrassed. To bail himself out, Widmark marries into a wealthy Mexican household. What he doesn't know is that the family is cursed: its female members are compelled to love their men literally to death. Chaim Topol Read More

Ido Zero Daisakusen

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Masumi Okada

Synopsis: Godzilla maven Inoshiro Honda helmed this quaint, old-fashioned fantasy adventure (loosely styled after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) about the crew of a damaged deep-sea craft who are taken aboard a high-tech atomic submarine dubbed "Alpha," commanded by the Nemo-like Captain McKenzie Joseph Cotten Read More

Crooks and Coronets

Actors: Telly Savalas, Edith Evans, Warren Oates, Cesar Romero, Harry H. Corbett

Synopsis: Herbie Hassler (Telly Savalas) and Marty Miller (Warren Oates) are American gangsters who plan to rob an opulent aristocratic home of valuable art treasures. Under the orders of crime boss Nick Marco (Cesar Romero), the duo charms Lady Fitzmore (Edith Evans), a wealthy dowager and proprietress of Read More

Hot Millions

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Robert Morley

Synopsis: This comedy finds a veteran crook turning to modern computer technology to steal money from various companies. Even before he is released from jail Caesar (Peter Ustinov) is planning his high-tech heist. He cons American executive Klemper (Karl Malden) and sets up three bogus companies to receive Read More

Madigan's Millions

Actors: Cesar Romero, Elsa Martinelli, Dustin Hoffman

Synopsis: Jason Fister (Dustin Hoffman) is the Internal Revenue Service agent sent to Rome to investigate the hidden money of the late gangster Mike Madigan (Cesar Romero). Jason meets Vick Shaw ( Elsa Martinelli) and he mistakenly takes her to be the dead mobster's mistress when in fact she is his Read More

Skidoo

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this notorious comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays Tony, a mid-level gangster and former hired killer not very happy with his life. He bickers a lot with his wife Flo (Carol Read More

Batman [TV Series]

Actors: Adam West, Burt Ward

Batman

Actors: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Tongue-in-cheek humor prevails in Batman, a witty homage to the Dynamic Duo's exaggerated exploits. The Caped Crusaders (Adam West and Burt Ward) are called in as a last resort when the criminal masterminds of the millennium team up to conquer Gotham City by turning the U.N. Security Council into Read More

Sergeant Deadhead

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hapless Army sergeant's plans to marry are temporarily delayed after he accidentally ends up launched into space with a chimpanzee. Upon his return, he is a changed man and is ultimately sent to prison after he threatens to go public with the mix-up. Meanwhile, suave Sgt. Read More

Branded: The Mission, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story, Jason (Chuck Connors) agrees to embark upon a dangerous undercover mission on behalf of President Grant (William Bryant). Meeting a gang of Mexican bandits, Jason pretends to join them in brazen plan to steal gold from a US Army fort. Should McCord fail Read More

Mutiny at Fort Sharp

Synopsis: Broderick Crawford spent a lot of his time in the 1960s appearing in Spanish-filmed westerns, presumably to avoid the American taxes that had gutted his Highway Patrol residuals. Mutiny at Fort Sharp stars ol' Ten-Four Brod as a Confederate colonel, in charge of a remote frontier army outpost. The Read More

Marriage on the Rocks

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin, Cesar Romero, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: A couple's marriage is nearly destroyed by their attempts to save it in this farcical comedy. Dan and Valerie Edwards (Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr) are a couple who have been married for close to 20 years. Dan, a busy but successful advertising executive, believes they have a happy Read More

Two on a Guillotine

Actors: Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg

Synopsis: A scary old haunted house provides the setting of this spooky thriller that centers on a psycho-magician who cut off his wife's head during a performance. Twenty years pass and he finally dies. His daughter is to inherit his estate, but before she can claim it, she must spend seven nights in his Read More

Bonanza: The Deadliest Game

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: A group of flamboyant Italian acrobats pay a visit to the Ponderosa. Despite his long friendship with Guido Borelli (Cesar Romero), leader of the acrobats, Ben Cartwright is disturbed over Borelli's exhibitions of jealousy whenever his sweetheart Pitina (Ilze Taurins) shows interest in another Read More

A House is Not a Home

Actors: Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, Ralph Taeger, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: This drama tells the true story of one of Broadway's most successful madams in the 1920s. It is loosely based on the autobiography of Polly Adler. The story begins when young Polly is seduced and raped at her job by the sweatshop foreman. When her uncle, with whom she lived, learns of the act, he Read More

Broken Sabre

Synopsis: In this western, after being branded as a coward by the army, an ex-soldier succumbs to his former finacee's pressure and breaks a treaty with the Apaches. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

We Shall Return

Synopsis: In this political drama, a bourgeois Cuban landowner and his family flee to Miami to escape Castro's rule. There he meets his eldest son, an ardent supporter of Castro who is planning to ruin the Bay of Pigs invasion. The patriotic father takes extreme measures to keep his son from his treachery. Read More

Donovan's Reef

Actors: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Dick Foran, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the fighting Navy men from that war, and how and where -- in Ford's eyes, and Frank Nugent and James Edward Grant's script -- they should have ended up. Michael "Guns" Donovan Read More

El Valle de las Espadas

Synopsis: Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter" international cast. Broderick Crawford plays a despotic 10th century Spanish king who, in cahoots with the invading Moors, has banished handsome Castilian nobleman Spartaco Santoni Read More

If a Man Answers

Actors: Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Micheline Presle, John Lund, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: This lightweight, nearly zero-gravity comedy by director Henry Levin relies on a novel by a male writer and a script by another man to come up with a nearly offensive story (in these more enlightened times) about how a woman can lie, manipulate, and generally deceive her husband, all in the "art" Read More

Seven Women from Hell

Actors: Patricia Owens, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean, Yvonne Craig

Synopsis: The actors do the best they can with this undistinguished wartime melodrama about a group of women caught in New Guinea just when the Japanese are taking over Indonesia and its contiguous islands in 1942. The women range from an ornithologist, to a nurse, to a thief, and a waitress, all captured Read More

Take a Good Look [TV Series]

Actors: Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis: Take a Good Look was a game show hosted by Ernie Kovacs in which panelists had to identify the various contestants from clues and clips of recordings and other various sources. Featured contestants were Edie Adams and Cesar Romero. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Ocean's Eleven

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: During a Los Angeles Christmas, a group of 82nd Airborne vets assembles under the leadership of gamblin' man Danny Ocean (Frank Sinatra) to rip off four Las Vegas casinos just after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. Playboy Jimmy Foster (Peter Lawford) joins in the scheme because he's sick Read More

Pepe

Actors: Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalban, Vicki Trickett, Bing Crosby

Synopsis: Popular Mexican comedian Cantinflas (Mario Moreno) plays the title character in this star-studded, amusing comedy drama by George Sidney. Pepe is the same sort of impoverished stereotype Cantinflas made famous in several of his comedies; in this case he is a hired hand on a ranch who chases down a Read More

Big Hello / The Wild Bunch

Synopsis: "The Big Hello" and "The Wild Bunch" originated as 25-minute episodes of the TV anthology Four Star Playhouse. Linking the two short films is the starring presence of Natalie Wood, who did quite a lot of TV work between 1950 and 1955. Supporting Wood in these dramatic playlets are such dependables Read More

Zorro, Vol. 5: The Gay Charmer

Synopsis: Zorro's life is threatened when a convincing crook attempts to persuade local authorities to rid themselves of the hero's interference. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Villa!

Actors: Brian Keith, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean, Rodolfo Hoyos, Rosenda Monteros

Synopsis: This historical adventure recounts the many exploits of the notorious Mexican bandit Pancho Villa as he evolves from a womanizing thief to a passionate leader of the Mexican revolution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of Mankind

Actors: Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Peter Lorre, Dennis Hopper, Chico Marx

Synopsis: Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of Henrik Willem Van Loon's best- selling historical volume. A Celestial Tribunal has been convened to decide the fate of the Earth after the invention of nuclear weapons, with The Devil (Vincent Price Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

The Leather Saint

Actors: Paul Douglas, John Derek, Jody Lawrance, Cesar Romero, Richard Shannon

Synopsis: The Leather Saint is an uneasy blend of religious drama and prizefight picture. John Derek stars as Father Gil Allen, an Episcopalian minister who relaxes on weekends by indulging in a few rounds of boxing. Allen hopes to use the prize money to finance a medical center for young polio victims, but Read More

Passport to Danger [TV Series]

Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower

Synopsis: Written in 1944 and expanded upon several times thereafter, composer Gordon Jenkins' classic tone poem "Manhattan Tower" resulted in one of the most popular record albums of all time. Curiously, while the piece was performed in a concert-narration format on innumerable occasions, it was dramatized Read More

The Racers

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Bella Darvi, Gilbert Roland, Lee J. Cobb, Katy Jurado

Synopsis: The CinemaScope process gets a rugged workout in Henry Hathaway's The Racers. Kirk Douglas stars as an Italian bus driver who dreams of entering the Grand Prix as a world-famous race car driver. Being Kirk Douglas, he achieves his goal, racing in all the major events around the globe. Dedicated to Read More

Martha Raye Show

The Americano

Actors: Glenn Ford, Frank Lovejoy, Cesar Romero, Ursula Thiess, Abbe Lane

Synopsis: The Americano is Glenn Ford, a north-of-the-border cowboy working in Brazil. Ford has been assigned to deliver a cargo of Brahma bulls to a South American ranch. His progress is impeded by homicidal land-grabber Frank Lovejoy and jovial bandido Cesar Romero. Those are merely the human obstacles; Read More

Vera Cruz

Actors: Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero,