Rudy Robles was a Filipino actor and one of the first Filipino actors to appear in Hollywood movies. His credits include pre- and post-World War II films, as Lt. Yabo in The Real Glory

The Real Glory

The Real Glory is a 1939 Samuel Goldwyn Company action film starring Gary Cooper, David Niven, and Broderick Crawford released by United Artists in the weeks immediately following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. Based on a 1937 novel of the same name by Charles L...

 (starring Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

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 and David Niven

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) and he played a Filipino Assassin in the 1942 film Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific

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. One of his last appearances was playing a T.V. character called Horace in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents

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 T.V. episode.

Among his uncredited roles were in the films Singapore

Singapore

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 ( starring Ava Gardner and Fred McMurray), Adventures of Martin Eden (Glenn Ford), and Okinawa (Pat O’Brien and Richard Denning).

Robles started his schooling in the Philippines. Then emigrated to the United States, finishing high school and college in California, where he excelled in debating and acting. Producer Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn

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 reportedly discovered and gave him the screen name Rudy Robles, whilst he was working as a bellhop at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Hollywood.

After the war, he returned to the Philippines

Philippines

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, where he raised a family and started to produce, direct and star in his own films.

Rudy was ahead of other Filipino

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 actors who appeared in other Hollywood films, among them, Barbara Perez (No Man is an Island

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), Pancho Magalona

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 (The Hook

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), Cesar Montano

César Montano

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 (The Great Raid

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).

Partial filmography

• The Real Glory
  The Real Glory
  The Real Glory is a 1939 Samuel Goldwyn Company action film starring Gary Cooper, David Niven, and Broderick Crawford released by United Artists in the weeks immediately following Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. Based on a 1937 novel of the same name by Charles L...
  
   (1939) as Lt. Yabo
• South of Pago Pago (1940) as Luna
• Across the Pacific
  Across the Pacific
  Across the Pacific is a 1942 spy film set on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II. The film was directed first by John Huston, then by Vincent Sherman after Huston joined the United States Army Signal Corps...
  
  (1942) as a Filipino Assassin
• "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" - Whodunit (1956) TV episode as Horace (1 episode, 1956)
• Double Jeopardy (1955) aka Crooked Ring (UK).... Frank - Henchman
• Okinawa (1952) .... Felix