Ricardo Montalban
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.
184 acting credits
Acting · 184
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
American Dad!
2005
Columbo
1971
Murder, She Wrote
1984
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Bonanza
1959
Star Trek
1966
Ironside
1967
Chicago Hope
1994
Mission: Impossible
1966
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Dynasty
1981
The Virginian
1962
Kim Possible
2002
Dr. Kildare
1961
Climax!
1954
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Carol Burnett Show
1967
Combat!
1962
Ben Casey
1961
Daniel Boone
1964
The Wild Wild West
1965
Fantasy Island
1978
Burke's Law
1963
What's My Line?
1950
American Masters
1986
The Defenders
1961
The Name of the Game
1968
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
Here's Lucy
1968
Gunsmoke
1955
The High Chaparral
1967
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Switch
1975
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Checkmate
1960
Felony Squad
1966
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Police Story
1973
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The Colbys
1985
Dream On
1990
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
Startime
1959
It Takes a Thief
1968
Cain's Hundred
1961
Freakazoid!
1995
Riverboat
1959
The Rogues
1964
Nichols
1971
MGM Parade
1955
B. J. and the Bear
1979
The Great Adventure
1963
The Lieutenant
1963
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
The Dick Powell Show
1961
The Golden Palace
1992
Alcoa Premiere
1961
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
Love Boat: The Next Wave
1998
Bracken's World
1969
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003
The Dick Clark Show
1958
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962
Star Trek: Short Treks
2018
Dan August
1970
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002
Letter to Loretta
1953
Titans
2000
The Ant Bully
2006
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
B.L. Stryker
1989
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Slattery's People
1964
Play of the Week
1959
The Long, Hot Summer
1965
Cannonball Run II
1984
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972
General Electric Theater
1953
The Magic of David Copperfield
1978
Griff
1973
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Heaven Help Us
1994
Battleground
1949
Sweet Charity
1969
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
1968
Star Time
1950
Play of the Week: Rashomon
1960
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962
Sayonara
1957
Mystery Street
1950
Border Incident
1949
Madame X
1966
The Singing Nun
1966
Fade In
1973
The Train Robbers
1973
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
1997
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
The Deserter
1970
Blue
1968
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Burt Reynolds' Conversations with...
1991
Across the Wide Missouri
1951
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1971
Two Weeks with Love
1950
Sol Madrid
1968
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
1991
Neptune's Daughter
1949
The Pigeon
1969
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998
The Money Trap
1965
My Man and I
1952
Wonder Woman
1974
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960
Latin Lovers
1953
Fireball Forward
1972
The Kissing Bandit
1948
The Reluctant Saint
1962
Sombrero
1953
All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
1983
The Mark of Zorro
1974
Joe Panther
1976
The Desperate Mission
1969
Santa
1943
Black Water Gold
1970
The Mark of the Renegade
1951
Captains Courageous
1977
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977
Fantasy Island
1977
On an Island with You
1948
Love is a Ball
1963
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966
The Longest Hundred Miles
1967
Fiesta
1947
The Million Dollar Nickel
1952
Three for Jamie Dawn
1956
The Saracen Blade
1954
The Aquarians
1970
Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency
1991
The Queen of Babylon
1954
A Life in the Balance
1955
Right Cross
1950
Desert Warrior
1957
Sentinels of Silence
1971
Rage of the Buccaneers
1961
La Fuga
1944
Mustang
1973
Return to Fantasy Island
1978
Code Name: Heraclitus
1967
The Fantasticks
1964
The Three Musketeers
1942
Perdida
2009
La casa de la zorra
1945
Fantasía ranchera
1947
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
1964
Untouched
1954
Pepita Jimenez
1946
The Face of Fear
1971
Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer
1999
Nosotros
1945
El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
1978
Space For Women
1981
Where Dreams Come True
1979
St. Augustine: The Oldest City
1973
Child of Trouble
1957
The Hour of Truth
1945
Walls of Fire
1971
Cadetes de la naval
1945
Cinco fueron escogidos
1943
Chango, Guardian of the Mayan Treasure
1972
He's a Latin from Staten Island
1941
Fatima
1984