Ricardo Montalban
Date of birth: 1920-11-25
Place of birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ricardo Montalbán, Ricardo Montalvan , ریکاردو مونتالبان
Biography
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Hispanic/Latin 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.
Movie Credits
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982-06-04
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top
El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
1978-06-21
In the style of Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", this is a comedic redubbing of "Los Amantes
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972-06-29
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almo
Code Name: Heraclitus
1967-01-01
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government
Battleground
1949-11-09
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged
Cannonball Run II
1984-06-29
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one p
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003-07-25
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up t
Border Incident
1949-10-28
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggl
Across the Wide Missouri
1951-10-12
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed te
The Ant Bully
2006-07-28
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustration
Sayonara
1957-12-25
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial p
Cheyenne Autumn
1964-10-15
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977-01-01
Father Kino, a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in the
Sweet Charity
1969-02-25
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointm
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976-07-26
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a stu
Space For Women
1981-07-10
Designed for class instruction and career education, and to prove that space exploration isn’t just
Madame X
1966-03-03
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who ha
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988-12-02
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner,
Two Weeks with Love
1950-11-10
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older da
Neptune's Daughter
1949-06-10
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the Sout
On an Island with You
1948-05-03
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made
Fiesta
1947-06-12
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullf
The Money Trap
1965-09-07
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglar
The Singing Nun
1966-03-17
Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled s
Mystery Street
1950-06-23
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas
Fantasy Island
1977-01-14
Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a br
Fade In
1973-11-08
A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local c
The Longest Hundred Miles
1967-01-21
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an America
Where Dreams Come True
1979-01-01
Directed by African American William Greaves and narrated by actor Ricardo Montalban, Where Dreams C
A Life in the Balance
1955-07-01
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City.
Desert Warrior
1957-10-31
Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages peopl
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962-07-25
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor fath
Love Is a Ball
1963-04-24
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young
Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency
1991-01-01
Deeply rooted in humanity's history, the Blessed Virgin Mary has been making repeated visitations th
The Reluctant Saint
1962-11-02
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired han
The Mark of Zorro
1974-10-29
The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threa
The Kissing Bandit
1948-11-14
Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960-11-10
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but
Wonder Woman
1974-03-12
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
Sol Madrid
1968-02-07
Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug
Blue
1968-05-09
A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexica
Latin Lovers
1953-08-12
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
Untouched
1954-12-23
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company se
Right Cross
1950-10-06
A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966-11-06
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
The Queen of Babylon
1954-12-28
In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En r
The Pigeon
1969-11-04
A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.
Rage of the Buccaneers
1961-12-15
Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.
Sombrero
1953-04-22
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956-07-08
Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.
Sentinels of Silence
1971-05-01
Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was
My Man and I
1952-09-05
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was wo
The Mark of the Renegade
1951-07-24
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California.
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
1964-12-17
Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, bec
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1971-02-22
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several
He's a Latin from Staten Island
1941-06-04
1941 Soundies short starring Ricardo Montalban
Cinco fueron escogidos
1943-07-08
Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavia
Return to Fantasy Island
1978-01-20
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having thei
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971-05-20
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a s
Fireball Forward
1972-03-05
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
1983-12-11
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests.
La Fuga
1944-07-04
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during
The Train Robbers
1973-02-01
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she
Pepita Jimenez
1946-02-22
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of
Perdida
2009-10-21
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces i
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997-05-12
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17
The Face of Fear
1971-10-08
A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hire
The Saracen Blade
1954-06-06
Based on the book of the same name by Frank Yerby. Pietro is an orphan who is raised by a family fri
The Desperate Mission
1969-11-20
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious tr
The Fantasticks
1964-10-17
Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter, Luisa, and Ben’s son, Matt, by pret
Joe Panther
1976-10-01
A young Seminole indian boy comes of age outside the Florida Everglades by trying to enter the estab
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002-08-07
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy busin
St. Augustine: The Oldest City
1973-01-01
Presents a field trip through the oldest city in the United States, St. Augustine, Fla., showing res
The Deserter
1970-12-04
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978-09-13
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney,
The Three Musketeers
1942-08-27
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Play of the Week: Rashomon
1960-12-12
Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.
Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer
1999-02-23
The Aquarians
1970-10-24
A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's s
Fatima
1984-01-01
This 60-minute documentary uses the reported miracle at Fatima in 1917 as a springboard for an exami
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998-09-05
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right ont
Santa
1943-06-10
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south
Cadetes de la naval
1945-02-21
During World War II, two Mexican naval cadets become best friends and share some good times when off
La casa de la zorra
1945-12-06
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son
Fantasía ranchera
1947-02-12
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first ope
The Million Dollar Nickel
1952-01-01
Short subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie Caron an
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1991-09-28
This documentary is hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and they take us through the history
Captains Courageous
1977-12-04
A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of
Black Water Gold
1970-01-06
A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an hi
Mustang
1973-10-07
Pechudo is a magnificent jet-black stallion who epitomizes the adjective, "freedom." Running wild in
The Hour of Truth
1945-11-15
Mexican movie
Nosotros
1945-06-01
The tragic romance between a woman with a dubious past and a young thief who reforms his life for lo
Child of Trouble
1957-05-02
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Chango, Guardian of the Mayan Treasure
1972-03-19
Chango, a spider monkey, has been cared for by the attendants of a Mayan temple. When the simian mak