Editing Rod La Rocque

{{Short description|American actor (1898–1969)}}
{{Infobox person
| name         = Rod La Rocque
| image        = Rod La Rocque, silent film actor (SAYRE 5022).jpg
| caption      = La Rocque in 1925
| birth_name   = Roderick Ross La Rocque
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1898|11|29}}
| birth_place  = [[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1969|10|15|1898|11|29}}
| death_place  = [[Beverly Hills, California]], U.S.
| occupation   = Actor
| yearsactive  = 1914&ndash;1941
| spouse        = {{marriage|[[Vilma Bánky]]|1927}} 
}}

'''Roderick Ross La Rocque'''<ref>[http://interactive.ancestrylibrary.com/6482/005263078_02536/14898530?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestrylibrary.com%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fgss%3dangs-g%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dRoderick%2b%26gsfn_x%3d0%26gsln%3dLa%2bRocque%2bde%2bla%2bRour%26gsln_x%3d0%26MSAV%3d0%26catbucket%3drstp%26uidh%3d57k%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d14898530%26db%3dWW1draft%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d8&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord Birthname per WWI United States draft registration card, 1917-18], ancestry.com; accessed October 20, 2015.</ref> (November 29, 1898 &ndash; October 15, 1969) was an American actor.

==Biography==
La Rocque was born in Chicago, Illinois to Edmund La Rocque and Ann (née Rice) La Rocque. His father was of French-Canadian descent and his mother was of Irish descent. He began appearing in stock theater at the age of seven and eventually ended up at the [[Essanay Studios]] as a teenager in Chicago where he found steady work until the studios closed. He then moved to New York City and worked on the stage until he was noticed by [[Samuel Goldwyn]] who took him to Hollywood. Over the next two decades, he appeared in films and made the transition to sound films. {{Citation needed|date= September 2012}}

[[File:Vilma Bánky, Rod La Rocque-no watermark.jpg|thumb|La Rocque and Vilma Bánky, 1927.]]
In 1927, he married Hungarian actress [[Vilma Bánky]] in a lavish, highly publicized wedding.<ref name="Journal">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZFQaAAAAIBAJ&pg=2186,959558&dq=rod-la-rocque&hl=en|title=Vilma Banky And Rod La Rocque, Film Lovers, Fooled The Gossips|date=February 2, 1949|work=[[Milwaukee Journal]]|access-date=August 12, 2010}}</ref> They were married until his death in 1969.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8fwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5325,4307636&dq=rod-la-rocque&hl=en|title=Silent Film Star Rod La Rocque Dies|date=October 17, 1969|access-date=August 12, 2010}}</ref> The couple had no children. He retired from movies in 1941 and became a real estate broker.<ref name="Journal"/>

For his contribution to the film industry, La Rocque was awarded a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].

==Partial filmography==
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* ''The Showman'' (1914) - Minor Role (uncredited)
* ''[[The Alster Case]]'' (1915) - Allen Longstreet
* ''The Little Shepherd of Bargain Row'' (1916)
* ''The Prince of Graustark'' (1916)
* ''Efficiency Edgar's Courtship'' (1917) - Wimple
* ''[[Filling His Own Shoes]]'' (1917) - Dick Downing
* ''The Dream Doll'' (1917) - Her Sweetheart
* ''[[Sadie Goes to Heaven]]'' (1917) - Coal Heaver
* ''[[Uneasy Money (1918 film)|Uneasy Money]]'' (1918) - Johnny Gates
* ''[[Ruggles of Red Gap (1918 film)|Ruggles of Red Gap]]'' (1918) - Belknap Jackson
* ''[[Let's Get a Divorce]]'' (1918) - Chauffeur
* ''[[The Venus Model]]'' (1918) - Paul Braddock
* ''Money Mad'' (1918) - William Gavin Jr.
* ''[[Hidden Fires (1918 film)|Hidden Fires]]'' (1918) - George Landis
* ''[[A Perfect 36]]'' (1918) - O.P. Dildock
* ''A Perfect Lady'' (1918) - Bob Griswold
* ''Love and the Woman'' (1919) - Walter Pemberton
* ''[[The Trap (1919 film)|The Trap]]'' (1919) - Doc Sloan - the Blackmailer
* ''Miss Crusoe'' (1919) - Harold Vance
* ''[[Easy to Get]]'' (1920) - Dick Elliott
* ''[[The Stolen Kiss]]'' (1920) - Dudley Hamilt
* ''[[The Garter Girl]]'' (1920) - Arthur Lyle
* ''The Common Sin'' (1920) - Hugh Stanton
* ''[[Life (1920 film)|Life]]'' (1920) - Tom Burnett
* ''The Discarded Woman'' (1920) - Sam Radburn - Gold Digger
* ''[[Paying the Piper (film)|Paying the Piper]]'' (1921) - Larry Grahame
* ''Suspicious Wives'' (1921) - Bob Standing
* ''[[Slim Shoulders]]'' (1922) - Richard Langden
* ''[[What's Wrong with the Women?]]'' (1922) - Jack Lee
* ''[[A Woman's Woman]]'' (1922) - Dean Laddbarry
* ''[[Notoriety (1922 film)|Notoriety]]'' (1922) - Arthur Beal
* ''[[The Challenge (1922 film)|The Challenge]]'' (1922) - Stanley Roberts
* ''[[Jazzmania]]'' (1923) - Jerry Langdon
* ''[[The French Doll]]'' (1923) - Pedro Carrova
* ''[[The Ten Commandments (1923 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'' (1923) - Dan McTavish - Her Son
* ''[[Don't Call It Love (film)|Don't Call It Love]]'' (1923) - Patrick Delaney
* ''[[Phantom Justice]]'' (1924) - Kingsley
* ''[[A Society Scandal]]'' (1924) - Daniel Farr
* ''[[Triumph (1924 film)|Triumph]]'' (1924) - King Garnet
* ''[[Code of the Sea]]'' (1924) - Bruce McDow
* ''[[Feet of Clay (1924 film)|Feet of Clay]]'' (1924) - Kerry Harlan
* ''[[Forbidden Paradise]]'' (1924) - Capt. Alexei Czerny
* ''[[The Golden Bed]]'' (1925) - Admah Holtz
* ''[[Night Life of New York]]'' (1925) - Ronald Bentley
* ''[[Wild, Wild Susan]]'' (1925) - Tod Waterbury
* ''[[The Coming of Amos]]'' (1925) - Amos Burden
* ''[[Braveheart (1925 film)|Braveheart]]'' (1925) - Braveheart
* ''[[Red Dice]]'' (1926) - Alan Beckwith
* ''[[Bachelor Brides]]'' (1926) - Percy Ashfield - Earl of Duncraggan
* ''[[Gigolo (1926 film)|Gigolo]]'' (1926) - Gideon Gory
* ''[[Cruise of the Jasper B]]'' (1926) - Jerry Cleggett
* ''[[Resurrection (1927 film)|Resurrection]]'' (1927) - Prince Dimitry Ivanitch Nekhludov
* ''[[The Fighting Eagle]]'' (1927) - Etienne Gerard
* ''[[Stand and Deliver (1928 film)|Stand and Deliver]]'' (1928) - Roger Norman
* ''[[Hold 'Em Yale (1928 film)|Hold 'Em Yale]]'' (1928) - Jaime Emmanuel Alvarado Montez
* ''[[Captain Swagger]]'' (1928) - Captain Swagger / Hugh Drummond
* ''[[Show People]]'' (1928) - Rod La Rocque (uncredited)
* ''[[Love Over Night]]'' (1928) - Richard Hill
* ''[[The One Woman Idea]]'' (1929) - Prince Ahmed
* ''[[The Man and the Moment]]'' (1929) - Michael Towne
* ''[[Our Modern Maidens]]'' (1929) - Abbott
* ''[[The Delightful Rogue]]'' (1929) - Lastro
* ''[[The Locked Door]]'' (1929) - Frank Devereaux
* ''[[Beau Bandit]]'' (1930, preserved Library of Congress) - Montero
* ''[[One Romantic Night]]'' (1930) - Prince Albert
* ''[[Let Us Be Gay]]'' (1930) - Bob Brown
* ''SOS Iceberg'' (1933, English-language version of ''[[SOS Eisberg]]'' with [[Leni Riefenstahl]]) - Dr. Carl Lawrence
* ''[[Mystery Woman (film)|Mystery Woman]]'' (1935) - Jacques Benoit
* ''[[Hi, Gaucho!]]'' (1935) - Escurra, aka Captain Garcia
* ''[[Frisco Waterfront]]'' (1935) - Dan Elliott
* ''[[Taming the Wild]]'' (1936) - Dick Clayton
* ''[[The Preview Murder Mystery]]'' (1936) - Neil DuBeck / Joe Walker
* ''[[Till We Meet Again (1936 film)|Till We Meet Again]]'' (1936) - Carl Schrottle
* ''[[The Drag-Net (1936 film)|The Drag-Net]]'' (1936) - Lawrence Thomas Jr.
* ''[[Clothes and the Woman]]'' (1937) - Eric Thrale
* ''[[The Shadow Strikes]]'' (1937) - Lamont Granston
* ''[[International Crime (1938 film)|International Crime]]'' (1938) - Lamont Cranston
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' (1939) - Phillippe
* ''[[Beyond Tomorrow (1940 film)|Beyond Tomorrow]]'' (1940) - Phil Hubert
* ''[[Dr. Christian Meets the Women]]'' (1940) - Prof. Kenneth Parker
* ''[[Dark Streets of Cairo]]'' (1941) - Inspector Joachim
* ''[[Meet John Doe]]'' (1941) - Ted Sheldon (final film role)
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==References==
'''Notes'''
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'''Bibliography'''

*Schildgen, Rachel A. ''More Than a Dream: Rediscovering the Life & Films of Vilma Banky'' {{ISBN|978-0-9827709-2-4}}.

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==External links==
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*{{IMDb name|0478942}}
*[http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/787/rod-la-rocque Rod La Rocque] at Virtual History
*[http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=535138&word= Portraits of Rod La Rocque; NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection]

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