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Ricardo Montalban

Ricardo Montalban

Birthday: 1920-11-25 | Place of Birth: Mexico City - Mexico

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG ( November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning seven decades (motion pictures from 1943 to 2006) and multiple notable roles. 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". Date of Death 14 January 2009, Los Angeles, California  (congestive heart failure)

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2003
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

as    Grandfather

1998
1988
1982
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

as    Khan Noonien Singh

1978
Fantasy Island

as    Mr. Roarke

1974
Wonder Woman

as    Abner Smith

1974
The Mark of Zorro

as    Captain Esteban

1973
Fade-In

as    Himself

1973
The Train Robbers

as    The Pinkerton Man

1972
1971
The Face of Fear

as    Sergeant Frank Ortega

1970
The Deserter

as    Natachai

1969
The Desperate Mission

as    Joaquin Murieta

1969
Sweet Charity

as    Vittorio

1968
Sol Madrid

as    Jalisco

1968
Blue

as    Ortega

1967
The Longest Hundred Miles

as    Father Sanchez

1966
The Singing Nun

as    Father Clementi

1966
Madame X

as    Phil Benton

1966
Alice Through the Looking Glass

as    The White King

1965
The Money Trap

as    Pete Delanos

1964
Cheyenne Autumn

as    Little Wolf

1963
Love Is a Ball

as    Duke Gaspard Ducluzeau

1962
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

as    Major Padula

1960
Let No Man Write My Epitaph

as    Louie Ramponi

1
I Know Catherine, The Log Lady

as    Self (archive footage)