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Carlos Montalbán
Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
Carlos Montalbán (June 5, 1903 – March 28, 1991) was a Mexican character actor. Montalbán was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, the son of Spanish immigrants Ricarda (née Me…
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Carlos Montalbán (June 5, 1903 – March 28, 1991) was a Mexican character actor. Montalbán was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, the son of Spanish immigrants Ricarda (née Merino) and Jenaro Montalbán, a store manager. He was the older brother of actor Ricardo Montalbán. Although not as famous as his younger brother, he is notable for having starred as "El Exigenté" in a series of coffee advertisements for Savarin Coffee in the 1960s and for portraying two different characters named "Vargas". The first time in the Jack Lemmon film The Out-of-Towners (1970) and then again in Woody Allen's Bananas (1971). His most famous American film was the boxing drama The Harder They Fall (1956) in which he played the sympathetic manager of a heavyweight contender. Montalbán was also a renowned voice-over actor and announcer; he was best known as the official Spanish language voice for Marlboro cigarettes worldwide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlos Montalbán, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1980
A Step Away
Movie Spanish Narrator
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1971
Bananas
Movie General Emilio M. Vargas
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1970
The Out-of-Towners
Movie Manuel Vargas
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1967
Coronet Blue
TV show
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1965
The F.B.I.
TV show Gen. Rafael Romero
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1965
Love Has Many Faces
Movie Don Julian
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1962
The Lost Apple
Movie Narrator
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1960
Pepe
Movie Rodriguez
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1959
Beyond All Limits
Movie Nacho
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1958
Naked City
TV show Frank Baker
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1957
Backstage
Movie
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1956
Crowded Paradise
Movie
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1956
The Harder They Fall
Movie Luís Agrandi
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1950
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV show
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1948
Studio One
TV show Ramos
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1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV show Saguro
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1943
El espejo
Movie
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1936
El carnaval del diablo
Movie
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1936
The Crime at Midnight
Movie Johnny
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1936
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Movie Rurale Captain
