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Ricardo Montalban
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…
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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.
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2018
Star Trek: Short Treks
TV show Khan (voice) (archive footage)
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2009
Perdida
Movie
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2006
The Ant Bully
Movie Head of Council (voice)
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2005
American Dad!
TV show General Juanito Pequeño (voice)
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2003
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Movie Grandfather
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2002
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Movie Grandfather
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2002
Kim Possible
TV show Señor Senior Sr. (voice)
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2000
Titans
TV show
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2000
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
TV show Vartkes (voice)
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1999
Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer
Movie Self
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1999
Family Guy
TV show The Cow (voice)
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1998
Behind the Planet of the Apes
Movie Self
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1998
Love Boat: The Next Wave
TV show Manuel Kaire
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1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie Self
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1995
Freakazoid!
TV show Armondo Guitierrez (voice)
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1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV show King Carlos (voice)
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1994
Chicago Hope
TV show Martin Nieves
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1994
Heaven Help Us
TV show
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1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1992
The Golden Palace
TV show Lawrence Gentry
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1991
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
Movie Self
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1991
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
TV show Self
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1991
Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency
Movie Narrator
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1990
Dream On
TV show Alejandro Goldman
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1989
B.L. Stryker
TV show
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1988
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Movie Vincent Ludwig
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1986
American Masters
TV show Self
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1985
The Colbys
TV show Zach Powers
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Vaclav Maryska
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1984
Cannonball Run II
Movie King
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1984
Fatima
Movie Self - Host
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1983
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
Movie Self
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1982
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Movie Khan Noonien Singh
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1981
Space For Women
Movie Self - Narrator
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1981
Dynasty
TV show
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1979
B. J. and the Bear
TV show
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1979
Where Dreams Come True
Movie Narrator
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1978
The Magic of David Copperfield
TV show
- 1978
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1978
El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
Movie Felipe (archive footage)
