Carlos Montalbán

Born: 1903-06-05

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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The Out-of-Towners

as Manuel Vargas
Released: 1970-05-28

George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it...

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The Harder They Fall

as Luís Agrandi
Released: 1956-05-08

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his...

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Bananas

as General Emilio M. Vargas
Released: 1971-04-28

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin...

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Pepe

as Rodriguez
Released: 1960-12-21

Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood...

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Love Has Many Faces

as Don Julian
Released: 1965-02-24

A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.

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Beyond All Limits

as Nacho
Released: 1959-07-08

This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman...

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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

as Rurale Captain
Released: 1936-01-13

A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for...

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The Crime at Midnight

as Johnny
Released: 1936-02-22

A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is...

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Crowded Paradise

as uncredited
Released: 1956-06-21

A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord...

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El carnaval del diablo

as uncredited
Released: 1936-12-01

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El espejo

as uncredited
Released: 1943-06-16

Faced with her own reflection, a woman traces the events that led her to renounce love, and the...

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Backstage

as uncredited
Released: 1957-05-02

The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is...

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Robert Montgomery Presents

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-01-30

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...

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The Philco Television Playhouse

as Saguro
First aired: 1948-10-03

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...

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The F.B.I.

as Gen. Rafael Romero
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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The F.B.I.

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Naked City

as Frank Baker
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Studio One

as Ramos
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Coronet Blue

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-05-29

Coronet Blue is an American TV series that ran on CBS from May 29, 1967, to September 4,...

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