Ricardo Montalban

Acting · 2.0 popularity

Age

105

Movies

Born: November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009
From: Mexico City, Mexico

Biography

Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican-American actor. He had a career spanning seven decades (motion pictures from 1943 to 2006) across radio, television, theatre, and film. During the mid-1970s, Montalbán was most notable as the spokesman in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba, in which he famously extolled the "soft Corinthian leather" used for its interior. He also advertised the Chrysler New Yorker. From 1977 to 1984, he became famous as Mr. Roarke the main star in the television series Fantasy Island. He played Khan Noonien Singh in both the 1967 episode "Space Seed" of the first season of the original Star Trek series, and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He won an Emmy Award in 1978 for his role in the mini series How the West Was Won and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. Into his 80s, he continued to perform, often providing voices for animated films and commercials, and appearing in several Spy Kids films as Grandfather Valentin.

Works

96 films

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

19887.3

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

20025.6

The Ant Bully

20065.8

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

20035.1

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

19827.4

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

19716.4

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

19726.2

Cannonball Run II

19845.4

Sayonara

19576.7

Sweet Charity

19696.9

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

19836.0

Cheyenne Autumn

19646.7

Battleground

19496.7

The Train Robbers

19736.3

Madame X

19666.4

The Deserter

19706.5

Fiesta

19476.2

The Money Trap

19655.1

Mystery Street

19506.8

Neptune's Daughter

19496.1

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

19764.3

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special

19915.9

Mission to Glory: A True Story

19777.0

Fantasy Island

19777.5

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

19625.6

Across the Wide Missouri

19516.1

Cinco fueron escogidos

19435.3

The Mark of the Renegade

19515.7

On an Island with You

19485.9

The Singing Nun

19665.9

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

19977.7

Alice Through the Looking Glass

19666.2

Where Dreams Come True

1979

Chango, Guardian of the Mayan Treasure

1972

Blue

19685.8

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

19605.9

Wonder Woman

19745.4

Fade In

19734.2

Border Incident

19496.9

The Three Musketeers

19427.5

Return to Fantasy Island

19786.0

Behind the Planet of the Apes

19987.1

The Mark of Zorro

19746.2

Sentinels of Silence

19716.9

Sombrero

19534.3

He's a Latin from Staten Island

19416.0

Right Cross

19507.3

The Kissing Bandit

19485.2

Fatima

19846.0

Two Weeks with Love

19506.4

Sol Madrid

19686.9

Play of the Week: Rashomon

19608.0

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

19718.0

My Man and I

19527.0

Black Water Gold

19704.5

A Life in the Balance

19556.4

Rage of the Buccaneers

19615.1

The Million Dollar Nickel

19526.0

Love is a Ball

19635.1

Space For Women

1981

The Aquarians

19706.5

The Queen of Babylon

19545.3

Desert Warrior

19577.0

The Pigeon

196910.0

Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer

1999

Three for Jamie Dawn

19566.5

NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney

19787.0

The Desperate Mission

19694.6

The Hour of Truth

19456.3

Latin Lovers

19534.7

Child of Trouble

1957

The Face of Fear

19715.9

The Reluctant Saint

19627.8

The Longest Hundred Miles

19676.6

The Saracen Blade

19545.4

Untouched

19546.9

Captains Courageous

19777.0

Pepita Jiménez

19465.9

Code Name: Heraclitus

19679.0

Fireball Forward

19726.5

Joe Panther

19766.0

Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency

1991

Cadetes de la naval

19455.8

Nosotros

19456.3

The Fantasticks

19646.0

¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!

19645.5

St. Augustine: The Oldest City

1973

La Fuga

19445.8

Santa

19436.2

Walls of Fire

19715.7

Perdida

20096.6

Mustang

19737.8

La casa de la zorra

19456.4

Fantasía ranchera

19476.8

El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa

19786.0