Biography
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was a Cuban-American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years. His wide range of screen roles included Latin lovers, historical figures in costume dramas, characters in light domestic comedies, and as The Joker in television's Batman series.
Known For
Complete Filmography

3-D Rarities: Volume II
2020
as (archive)
Blu-ray. 2020 release, the long-awaited follow-up collection of extraordinary 3-D wonders, including the feature-length El Corazón y la Espada, all ex...

Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.

Heart of Batman
2018
as Self (archive footage)
In the early 1990s, a rare gathering of talent defined Batman for a generation. Twenty-five years later, "Batman: The Animated Series" continues to i...

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
as (archive footage)
The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from their VHS cocoons to conjure a jam on culture so cult...

Batman: Holy Batmania!
2003
as The Joker / Himself
A collection of films documenting the history of the Batman television program and the motion picture that followed. Film1: Batman: Holy Batmania! (2...

The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in American Cinema
2002
Documentary about the presence of Latin American culture and actors in American movies.

Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
2001
as Joker (archive footage)
The historical saga of American superheroes. Born in the period between the Great Depression and the World War II to combat the hobgoblins of the mode...
Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
1995
as Self
Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. Eight years later, s...

Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business
1995
as Self
A biography of the Portuguese-born Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti-frutti hat. From her arrival in the U...

Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1993
as Self
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her...

Simple Justice
1989
as Vincenzo DiLorenzo
When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if ...

Judgement Day
1988
as Octavio
Two travelers stop over in a small village named Santana. Unbeknownst to them, Santana is a village where, once a year, Satan comes to Earth to claim ...

Mortuary Academy
1988
as Ship's Captain
"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most inc...

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

Flesh and Bullets
1985
as Santa Monica Judge
Two men who meet in a bar in Las Vegas discover that they have one big problem in common, their wives. They decide to do something drastic about it.

Lust in the Dust
1985
as Father Garcia
Assaulted by outlaws, donkey-riding Rosie joins a silent drifter's search for gold in the Old West.

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready
1977
as Teodoro Bruzizi
During World War II, an Italian POW is accidentally drafted into the American army.

Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977
as Adm. Juan Atondo
Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the Southwest by teaching them agricultural skills a...

Carioca Tigre
1976
as Don Rosalindo Y Guana

Timber Tramps
1975
as Greedy sawmill mogul
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.

The Strongest Man in the World
1975
as A.J. Arno
Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged ...

The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
1974
as Dr. Richard Grimaldi
Poe's fiance, Lenore, falls into a coma and is taken for dead. She is rescued at the last possible moment from being buried alive, but the experience ...

The Haunted Mouth
1974
as B. Plaque (Narrator)
In a haunted house, the invisible spirit of plaque - which evidently has the ability to possess rocking chairs - warns children against the dangers of...

Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972
as A.J. Arno
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dex...

The Proud and Damned
1972
as San Carlos' Mayor
A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped ...

Mooch Goes to Hollywood
1971
as Cesar Romero (uncredited)
A dog tries to become a canine star with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
1971
as Self
A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.

The Red, White, and Black
1970
as Col. Grierson
Told by a U.S. Army colonel and his wife, this vintage Western set in post-Civil War Texas chronicles the exploits of the all-black 10th cavalry regim...

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969
as A.J. Arno
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dex...

Latitude Zero
1969
as Dr. Malic / Lt. Hastings
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Al...

Target: Harry
1969
as Lt. George Duval
Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are af...

Midas Run
1969
as Carlo Dodero
A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

Crooks and Coronets
1969
as Nick Marco
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.

A Talent for Loving
1969
as Landbesitzer
This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw. At the ranch, the gambler ...

Skidoo
1968
as Hechy
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, Go...

Hot Millions
1968
as Customs Inspector
A con artist gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.

Madigan's Millions
1968
as Mike Madigan
When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but ma...

Clown Alley
1966
as Clown
An all-star cast joins Red Skelton in this lavish 60-minute salute to circus clowns.

Batman
1966
as The Joker
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Salute to Stan Laurel
1965
as Self
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel.

Marriage on the Rocks
1965
as Miguel Santos
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his...

Sergeant Deadhead
1965
as Admiral Stoneham
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the ast...

Uncertain Verification
1965
as (archive footage)
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.

Broken Sabre
1965
as General Arriola
Western about a West Point graduate who was falsely accused of cowardice and thrown out of the army. Edited from episodes of the TV show "Branded".

Two on a Guillotine
1965
as John Harley 'Duke' Duquesne
The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in...

A House Is Not a Home
1964
as Charlie "Lucky" Luciano
Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.

Donovan's Reef
1963
as Andre de Lage
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.

The Castilian
1963
as Jerónimo
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter" international cast. Broderi...

We Shall Return
1963
as Carlos Rodriguez
A prominent Cuban landowner flees to Miami with his anti-Castro activist younger son, where he learns that his elder son is working to sabotage the Ba...

If a Man Answers
1962
as Robert Swan / Adam Wright
Rich socialite Chantal marries photographer Eugene and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, s...

Seven Women from Hell
1961
as Luis Hullman
Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese a...

The Runaway
1961
as Father Dugan
The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.

Pepe
1960
as Cesar Romero
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. ...

Ocean's Eleven
1960
as Duke Santos
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

Mis secretarias privadas
1959

Villa!!
1958
as Tomás Lopez
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa

The Story of Mankind
1957
as Spanish Envoy
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
1956
as Mambo Teacher
Gordon Jenkins' record album "Manhattan Tower" was a best seller for 12 years and this spectacular is based on it, with book, music and lyrics by Jenk...

Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Abdullah's Henchman
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...

The Leather Saint
1956
as Tony Lorenzo
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers...

The Racers
1955
as Carlos Chavez
An Italian daredevil turns Grand Prix driver and works his way up to Le Mans with his ballerina lover.

The Americano
1955
as Manuel Silvera / 'El Gato' / Barbossa
An American Rancher takes a small herd of Brahma bulls to Brazil where he has sold them for a small fortune. There, he finds himself in the middle of ...

Vera Cruz
1954
as Marquis Henri de Labordere
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane mee...

The Sword of Granada
1954
as Don Pedro de Rivera
In this period costume swashbuckler, Don Pedro de Rivera, the rightful owner of a Spanish castle seeks to reclaim it from an occupying Moorish Caliph....

Prisoners of the Casbah
1953
as Firouz
A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his brid...

Street of Shadows
1953
as Luigi
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in ...

Lady in the Fog
1952
as Philip 'Phil' O'Dell
In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspi...

The Jungle
1952
as Rama Singh
An Indian princess (Marie Windsor), her adviser (Cesar Romero) and a white hunter (Rod Cameron) fight woolly mammoths. Filmed in sepia.

FBI Girl
1951
as Glen Stedman
G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.

Lost Continent
1951
as Maj. Joe Nolan
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down ...

Happy Go Lovely
1951
as John Frost
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of sto...

Once a Thief
1950
as Mitch Moore
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles whe...

Love That Brute
1950
as Pretty Willie Wetzchahofsky
The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949
as Blackie Jobero
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news f...

That Lady in Ermine
1948
as Count Mario
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, w...

Julia Misbehaves
1948
as Fred Ghenoccio
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites ...

Deep Waters
1948
as Joe Sanger
A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

Captain from Castile
1947
as Hernando Cortez
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to f...

Carnival in Costa Rica
1947
as Pepe Castro
Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Take It or Leave It
1944
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

Wintertime
1943
as Brad Barton
Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her...

Coney Island
1943
as Joe Rocco
Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spo...

Springtime in the Rockies
1942
as Victor Prince
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner...

Orchestra Wives
1942
as St. John "Sinjin" Smith
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she...

Tales of Manhattan
1942
as Harry Wilson
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea...

A Gentleman at Heart
1942
as Tony Miller
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ra...

Week-End in Havana
1941
as Monte Blanca
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waiver...

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941
as Self
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken...

Dance Hall
1941
as Duke McKay
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer Joe...

The Great American Broadcast
1941
as Bruce Chadwick
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coa...

Ride on Vaquero
1941
as The Cisco Kid
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment,...

Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941
as J.J. "Shep" Morrison
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

Romance of the Rio Grande
1941
as The Cisco Kid
When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.

The Gay Caballero
1940
as The Cisco Kid
The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have at...

Lucky Cisco Kid
1940
as The Cisco Kid
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture...

Viva Cisco Kid
1940
as The Cisco Kid
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to ...

He Married His Wife
1940
as Freddie
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to ...

The Cisco Kid and the Lady
1939
as The Cisco Kid
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
1939
as Fred Rhadini
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage ma...

Frontier Marshal
1939
as John 'Doc' Halliday
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Hollywood Hobbies
1939
as Self (uncredited)
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.

The Return of the Cisco Kid
1939
as Lopez
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
1939
as Cesar Romero
Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomos...

The Little Princess
1939
as Ram Dass
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
as Hugo
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer ...

Five of a Kind
1938
as Duke Lester
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

My Lucky Star
1938
as George Cabot Jr
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertise...

Always Goodbye
1938
as Count Giovanni 'Gino' Corini
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is ...

Happy Landing
1938
as Duke Sargent
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

Ali Baba Goes to Town
1937
as Himself
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--...

Dangerously Yours
1937
as Victor Morell
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one...

Wee Willie Winkie
1937
as Khoda Khan
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he c...

Armored Car
1937
as Petack
Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to head...

She's Dangerous
1937
as Nick Sheldon, alias Al Shaw
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

15 Maiden Lane
1936
as Frank Peyton
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
as Self
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the...

Public Enemy's Wife
1936
as Gene Maroc
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claim...

Nobody's Fool
1936
as Dizzy Rantz
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.

Love Before Breakfast
1936
as Bill Wadsworth
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues K...

A Dream Comes True
1935
as Himself (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

Show Them No Mercy!
1935
as Tobey
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

Rendezvous
1935
as Capt. Nicholas 'Nikki' Nieterstein
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

Metropolitan
1935
as Niki Baroni
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and com...

Diamond Jim
1935
as Jerry Richardson
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

The Devil Is a Woman
1935
as Antonio Galvan
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the part...

Hold 'Em Yale
1935
as Georgie, the Chaser
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Thre...

Cardinal Richelieu
1935
as Andre de Pons
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

The Good Fairy
1935
as Joe
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing goo...

Clive of India
1935
as Mir Jaffar
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyo...

Strange Wives
1934
as Boris
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.

Cheating Cheaters
1934
as Tom Palmer
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting...

British Agent
1934
as Tito Del Val
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

The Thin Man
1934
as Chris Jorgenson
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

The Shadow Laughs
1933
as Tony Rico
The police investigate a bank robbery, and when they don't seem to be making much headway, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate it on his own.