Roland Varno was a character actor from Utrecht

Utrecht

Utrecht is a city in the Netherlands.The name may also refer to:* Utrecht , of which Utrecht is the capital* Utrecht , including the city of Utrecht* Bishopric of Utrecht* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. He appeared in dozens of films in the 1930s and 1940s including the Return of the Vampire

The Return of the Vampire

The Return of the Vampire is a horror film released in 1944 by Columbia Pictures. It is in black and white, and describes an Englishwoman's two encounters with a vampire...

, My Name is Juila Ross, Gunga Din

Gunga Din

-Background:The poem is a rhyming narrative from the point of view of a British soldier, about a native water-bearer who saves the soldier's life but dies himself. The last line suggests a deep-down unease of conscience about the prevailing views of natural hierarchies, both in the depicted...

, Three Faces West

Three Faces West

Three Faces West is a 1940 film starring John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and Charles Coburn. An unusual film, with a political agenda that seems to be part pro New Deal, it is part anti-fascist and part pro good old American community values...

, Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage

Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government...

, Three's a Crowd, Flight to Nowhere

Flight to Nowhere

- Cast :*Alan Curtis as Hobe Carrington*Evelyn Ankers as Catherine Forrest*Micheline Cheirel as Dolly Lorraine, aka Countess Maria de Fresca*Jack Holt as FBI Agent Bob Donovan*Jerome Cowan as Gerald Porter*John Craven as Claude Forrest...

and Scared to Death

Scared to Death

Scared to Death is a horror film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Bela Lugosi. It was filmed in Cinecolor, is one of only three color pictures Lugosi made, and the only one he starred in...

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Varno also appeared on TV series including Space Patrol, the Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.-Synopsis:The Adventures of Wild...

and 77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes....

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Born Jacob Frederik Vuerhard, He was also the father of Martin Varno who wrote the 1958 sci fi film Night of the Blood Beast

Night of the Blood Beast

Night of the Blood Beast is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film about a team of scientists who are stalked by an alien creature, which implants its embryos in an astronaut's body during a space flight. Produced by B movie filmmaker Roger Corman and his brother Gene, the film was one of the...

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Varno died on May 24, 1996 in Lancaster, California

Lancaster, California

Lancaster is a charter city in northern Los Angeles County, in the high desert, near the Kern County line. Lancaster currently ranks as the 30th largest city in California, and the 148th largest city in the United States. Lancaster is the principal city within the Antelope Valley...

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