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RICARDO MONTALBAN
BIOGRAPHY
Born: November 25, 1920, Mexico City, Mexico
Partly educated in the US, Montalban played bit roles in several Broadway productions before making his film debut in his native land in the early 40s. He was recruited by MGM in 1947 and was used as a "Latin lover" type in a number of the studio's films. He tried to break away from the image with nonromantic dramatic roles at MGM and later elsewhere and eventually was given an opportunity to demonstrate a wider acting range on TV. He has appeared in numerous TV dramas, including many segments of "The Loretta Young Show," starring his sister-in-law Loretta Young. He also appeared in a number of Broadway plays and in the early 70s toured the US with Agnes Moorehead and Paul Henreid in a dramatic reading from G. B. Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, playing the title role. Best known for playing Mr. Roarke, the mysterious host on the TV series "Fantasy Island." Montalban had one of his most notable big screen roles late in his career, as the villainous Khan in the second installment of the popular Star Trek series, THE WRATH OF KHAN.
FILMOGRAPHY
MOTION PICTURES
1942 CINCO FUERON ESCOGIDOS 1943 SANTA 1944 LA FUGA 1944 LA HORA DE LA VERDAD 1948 THE KISSING BANDIT 1948 ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU 1949 BATTLEGROUND 1949 BORDER INCIDENT 1949 NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER 1950 MYSTERY STREET 1950 RIGHT CROSS 1950 TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE 1951 ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI 1951 MARK OF THE RENEGADE 1952 MY MAN AND I 1953 LATIN LOVERS 1953 SOMBRERO 1954 THE SARACEN BLADE 1954 SOMBRA VERDE/GREEN SHADOW 1955 A LIFE IN THE BALANCE 1956 THE QUEEN OF BABYLON 1956 THREE FOR JAMIE DAWN 1956 UNTOUCHED 1957 SAYONARA 1960 LET NO MAN WRITE MY EPITAPH 1962 HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN/ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN 1962 THE RELUCTANT SAINT 1963 LOVE IS A BALL 1964 CHEYENNE AUTUMN 1966 MADAME X 1966 THE MONEY TRAP 1966 THE SINGING NUN 1968 BLUE 1968 FADE-IN 1968 SOL MADRID/THE HEROIN GANG 1969 SWEET CHARITY 1970 WALLS OF FIRE 1971 THE DESERTER/LA SPINA DORSALE DEL DIAVOLO/RIDE TO GLORY 1971 ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES 1972 CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 1973 THE TRAIN ROBBERS 1976 JOE PANTHER 1977 KINO, THE PADRE ON HORSEBACK 1982 STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN 1984 CANNONBALL RUN II 1988 THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD! 1994 THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! III
TELEVISIONAlice Through the Looking Glass The Aquarian; The Colbys (85-87) Columbo: A Matter of Honor Fantasy Island (Jan. 78-Aug. 84) Fireball Foreward The Great Adventure (The Massacre at Wounded Knee) Heaven Help Us (94-??) Hollywood Summer Theatre How the West Was Won, Part II Joaquin Murietta (69) The Longest Hundred Miles (67) The Loretta Young Show (9 episodes) McNaughton's Daughter The Mark of Zorro Murder, She Wrote (Murder in F Sharp) O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (Operation: Lady Luck) The Pigeon Return to Fantasy Island Star Trek (Space Seed) The Wild Wild West (The Night of the Lord of Limbo)
