
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.
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

Cannonball Run II

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Cheyenne Autumn

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Sweet Charity

Fantasy Island

That's Entertainment! III

Mystery Street

Battleground

The Train Robbers

Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special

Sayonara

Behind the Planet of the Apes

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Across the Wide Missouri

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

On an Island with You

The Deserter

The Mark of Zorro

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

Three for Jamie Dawn

Love is a Ball

The Money Trap

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

Madame X

Border Incident

Neptune's Daughter

Play of the Week: Rashomon

Two Weeks with Love

My Man and I

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Fiesta

The Mark of the Renegade

Space Seed

All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra

A Life in the Balance

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross

The Kissing Bandit

Wonder Woman

The Singing Nun

Sol Madrid

Mission to Glory: A True Story

Blue

Right Cross

Fireball Forward

Return to Fantasy Island

The Desperate Mission

Desert Warrior

Rage of the Buccaneers

The Three Musketeers

The Longest Hundred Miles

Fade In

The Queen of Babylon

Chango, Guardian of the Mayan Treasure

Latin Lovers

The Hour of Truth

Fatima

Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer

Sombrero

The Million Dollar Nickel

¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!

The Pigeon

Where Dreams Come True

The Reluctant Saint

Cadetes de la naval

Sentinels of Silence

Black Water Gold

Code Name: Heraclitus

Captains Courageous

The Aquarians
TV Shows

Columbo

Chicago Hope

Bonanza

Murder, She Wrote

Hawaii Five-O

The Merv Griffin Show

Ironside

What's My Line?

Mission: Impossible

Star Trek

Dynasty

Kim Possible

Dr. Kildare

Climax!

The Virginian

The Defenders

Daniel Boone

Ben Casey

The Name of the Game

The Carol Burnett Show

The Wild Wild West

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Combat!

Fantasy Island

Burke's Law

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Gunsmoke

Switch

American Masters

Here's Lucy

The Ed Sullivan Show

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

The High Chaparral

Adventures in Paradise

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

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Police Story

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Felony Squad

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Freakazoid!

Dream On

Startime

It Takes a Thief

Checkmate

Riverboat

B. J. and the Bear

MGM Parade

Cain's Hundred

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

Nichols

The Great Adventure

The Golden Palace

The Lieutenant

The Rogues

The Colbys

The Dick Clark Show

The Dick Powell Show

Dan August

Love Boat: The Next Wave

Alcoa Premiere

Play of the Week

The Wonderful World of Disney

Letter to Loretta

Star Trek: Short Treks

The Lloyd Bridges Show

Hallmark Hall of Fame

B.L. Stryker

Bracken's World

The Magic of David Copperfield

Slattery's People

Titans

General Electric Theater

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars



















