
Ricardo Montalban
Born November 25, 1920 · Mexico City, Mexico
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

The Ant Bully

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Cannonball Run II

Sayonara

Sweet Charity

Cheyenne Autumn

Battleground

The Train Robbers

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

That's Entertainment! III

Madame X

The Deserter

Mystery Street

The Singing Nun

Blue

Neptune's Daughter

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

Border Incident

Fantasy Island

Fiesta

The Money Trap

The Mark of the Renegade

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

Across the Wide Missouri

Wonder Woman

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special

Cinco fueron escogidos

The Mark of Zorro

Sombrero

The Three Musketeers

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

He's a Latin from Staten Island

On an Island with You

Behind the Planet of the Apes

Sol Madrid

Right Cross

Play of the Week: Rashomon

Fade In

The Kissing Bandit

My Man and I

Chango, Guardian of the Mayan Treasure

Two Weeks with Love

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

Sentinels of Silence

Fireball Forward

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

Love is a Ball

Return to Fantasy Island

Fatima

The Pigeon

The Longest Hundred Miles

Rage of the Buccaneers

Three for Jamie Dawn

The Queen of Babylon

Latin Lovers

Black Water Gold

The Aquarians

Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer

Desert Warrior

Pepita Jiménez

A Life in the Balance

Child of Trouble

The Million Dollar Nickel

The Desperate Mission

The Hour of Truth

The Reluctant Saint

The Saracen Blade
TV Shows

The Mike Douglas Show

Murder, She Wrote

Chicago Hope

Star Trek

Bonanza

Ironside

Hawaii Five-O

Kim Possible

Mission: Impossible

The Merv Griffin Show

Dynasty

The Wild Wild West

The Virginian

Fantasy Island

Dr. Kildare

Daniel Boone

The Carol Burnett Show

Climax!

What's My Line?

Gunsmoke

The Defenders

Combat!

Ben Casey

American Masters

Burke's Law

The High Chaparral

The Name of the Game

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Here's Lucy

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Adventures in Paradise

Switch

Felony Squad

Police Story

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Checkmate

Dream On

Freakazoid!

The 20th Century Fox Hour

MGM Parade

Startime

It Takes a Thief

Cain's Hundred

The Colbys

The Great Adventure

B. J. and the Bear

The Rogues

Nichols

Riverboat

The Lieutenant

Alcoa Premiere

The Dick Clark Show

The Golden Palace

Star Trek: Short Treks

Dan August

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

The Dick Powell Show

The Magic of David Copperfield

Love Boat: The Next Wave

The Wonderful World of Disney

Play of the Week

B.L. Stryker

The Lloyd Bridges Show

Titans

Bracken's World

Slattery's People

Letter to Loretta

Hallmark Hall of Fame

General Electric Theater



















