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Roland, Gilbert

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Roland, Gilbert

August 21, 2026

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Gilbert Roland, born Luis Antonio Damaso de Alonso in Juárez in 1905 and raised in El Paso after his family fled the Mexican Revolution, died of cancer at his Beverly Hills home on May 15, 1994, at age 88. As a child in El Paso he sold newspapers to help support his family before leaving as a…

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