Ricardo Montalban
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican 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.
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PHOTOS
TV Series
Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Titans
5.6
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
7.2
Columbo
8.088
The Dick Powell Show
5.5
Star Trek
8.015
Burke's Law
6
B. J. and the Bear
5.5
Cain's Hundred
4.7
American Dad!
6.975
Family Guy
7.4
Here's Lucy
6.69
Dream On
6.9
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
6.5
The Great Adventure
0
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
Checkmate
4.1
Kim Possible
7.5
Marcus Welby, M.D.
6.5
Dynasty
6.5
The Golden Palace
6.2
Gunsmoke
6.6
The Wonderful World of Disney
7.774
Combat!
7.6
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.8
General Electric Theater
6.25
Mission: Impossible
7.6
The Colbys
5.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Ironside
6.8
Chicago Hope
7.243
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
The Long, Hot Summer
5
The Greatest Show on Earth
5
Play of the Week
0
Felony Squad
6.4
The Wild Wild West
7.5
Love Boat: The Next Wave
5
The Name of the Game
6.8
Daniel Boone
6.9
Police Story
6.9
Switch
6.7
The High Chaparral
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
The Defenders
6.2
Nichols
5
Climax!
3.273
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Slattery's People
5
Adventures in Paradise
5.7
The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.429
Bracken's World
5
The Rogues
7.2
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
6
Ben Casey
5.6
Riverboat
6.2
The Lieutenant
6
The Lloyd Bridges Show
5
Star Time
0
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
0
Dr. Kildare
5.5
Griff
5
Alcoa Premiere
5
Heaven Help Us
2
Letter to Loretta
6.5
The Dick Clark Show
5.5
B.L. Stryker
6
Fantasy Island
6.4
The Magic of David Copperfield
7
Freakazoid!
7.9
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.4
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
6
Burke's Law
6
The Great Adventure
0
Hawaii Five-O
7.1
The Name of the Game
6.8
The High Chaparral
6.5
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
6
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
Bonanza
7.5
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
6.5
Climax!
3.273
The Carol Burnett Show
7.7
Dynasty
6.5
American Masters
7.3
McNaughton's Daughter
1
Star Trek: Short Treks
6.357
What's My Line?
6.9
It Takes a Thief
7
Dan August
6.8
The Mike Douglas Show
5.375
The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.429
Movies
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
7.456
El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
2
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
6.16
Code Name: Heraclitus
0
Battleground
6.672
Cannonball Run II
5.4
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
5.1
Border Incident
6.9
Across the Wide Missouri
5.9
The Ant Bully
5.744
Sayonara
6.6
Cheyenne Autumn
6.7
Mission to Glory: A True Story
5
Sweet Charity
6.888
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
4.1
Space For Women
0
Madame X
6.524
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
7.3
Two Weeks with Love
6.1
Neptune's Daughter
5.8
On an Island with You
5.6
Fiesta
4.7
The Money Trap
5
The Singing Nun
5.7
Mystery Street
6.7
Fantasy Island
6.75
Fade In
3.6
The Longest Hundred Miles
6.2
Where Dreams Come True
0
A Life in the Balance
5.9
Desert Warrior
5
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
4.8
Love Is a Ball
4.6
Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency
0
The Reluctant Saint
7.6
The Mark of Zorro
5.9
The Kissing Bandit
3
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
6.1
Wonder Woman
5.189
Sol Madrid
6.375
Blue
5.3
Latin Lovers
4.6
Untouched
6.7
Right Cross
6.6
Alice Through the Looking Glass
6
The Queen of Babylon
4.5
The Pigeon
0
Rage of the Buccaneers
4.833
Sombrero
4.2
Three for Jamie Dawn
5
Sentinels of Silence
6.8
My Man and I
6.8
The Mark of the Renegade
5.2
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
4
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
0
He's a Latin from Staten Island
0
Cinco fueron escogidos
5
Return to Fantasy Island
4.667
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
6.372
Fireball Forward
5
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
6
La Fuga
5.3
The Train Robbers
6.3
Pepita Jimenez
4.8
Perdida
6.6
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
7
The Face of Fear
5.7
The Saracen Blade
4.8
The Desperate Mission
4.6
The Fantasticks
6
Joe Panther
5.5
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
5.642
St. Augustine: The Oldest City
0
The Deserter
6
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
0
The Three Musketeers
7.4
That's Entertainment! III
6.973
Play of the Week: Rashomon
7
Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer
0
The Aquarians
6
Fatima
6
Behind the Planet of the Apes
7.222
Santa
5.6
Cadetes de la naval
5.5
La casa de la zorra
5.5
Fantasía ranchera
6
I Know Catherine, the Log Lady
0
The Million Dollar Nickel
4
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
5.7
Captains Courageous
6
Black Water Gold
4.3
Mustang
7
The Hour of Truth
5
Nosotros
5