Ricardo Montalban
Birthday: 1920-11-25
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Biography: Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Hispanic/Latin 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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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top...
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El asalto al castillo de la Moncloa
In the style of Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", this is a comedic redubbing of "Los Amantes ...
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almo...
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Code Name: Heraclitus
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government...
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Battleground
Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged ...
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Cannonball Run II
When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one p...
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up t...
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Border Incident
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggl...
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Across the Wide Missouri
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed te...
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The Ant Bully
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustration...
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Sayonara
Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial p...
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Cheyenne Autumn
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne....
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Mission to Glory: A True Story
Father Kino , a 17th-century Jesuit missionary, dedicated his life to helping Native Americans in th...
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a stu...
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Sweet Charity
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointm...
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Space For Women
Designed for class instruction and career education, and to prove that space exploration isn’t just ...
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Madame X
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who ha...
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner,...
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Two Weeks with Love
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older da...
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Neptune's Daughter
Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the Sout...
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On an Island with You
A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made ...
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Fiesta
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullf...
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The Money Trap
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglar...
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The Singing Nun
Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled s...
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Mystery Street
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas...
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Fantasy Island
Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a br...
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Fade In
A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local c...
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The Longest Hundred Miles
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an America...
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Where Dreams Come True
Directed by African American William Greaves and narrated by actor Ricardo Montalban, Where Dreams C...
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A Life in the Balance
A widower's young son leads the police to a killer of sinners in Mexico City....
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Desert Warrior
Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages peopl...
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Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor fath...
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Love Is a Ball
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young...
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Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century: A Message of Urgency
Deeply rooted in humanity's history, the Blessed Virgin Mary has been making repeated visitations th...
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The Reluctant Saint
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired han...
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The Mark of Zorro
The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threa...
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The Kissing Bandit
Ricardo, the milquetoast son of a Mexican bandit, would rather lead a quiet life in Boston. But the ...
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but...
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Sol Madrid
Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug...
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Blue
A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexica...
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Untouched
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company se...
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Right Cross
A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical....
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The Queen of Babylon
In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En r...
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The Pigeon
A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate....
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Sombrero
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages....
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Three for Jamie Dawn
Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder....
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Sentinels of Silence
Sentinels of Silence is a 1971 short documentary film on ancient Mexican civilizations. The film was...
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My Man and I
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was wo...
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The Mark of the Renegade
An agent of Mexico poses as a pirate to foil a would-be emperor in 1820s California....
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¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, bec...
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several ...
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Cinco fueron escogidos
Cinco fueron escogidos taking place in Slavko, a "peaceful town in Yugoslavia," with only Yugoslavia...
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Return to Fantasy Island
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having thei...
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a s...
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All-Star Party for Frank Sinatra
A Celebration of the great life of Frank Sinatra with song, dance, and many famous guests....
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La Fuga
A stagecoach full of conflictive passengers makes its dangerours way from Mexico to Veracruz during ...
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Pepita Jimenez
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of ...
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The Train Robbers
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she ...
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Perdida
This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces i...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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The Face of Fear
A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hire...
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The Saracen Blade
Based on the book of the same name by Frank Yerby. Pietro is an orphan who is raised by a family fri...
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The Desperate Mission
A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man's wife - and a mysterious tr...
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The Fantasticks
Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter, Luisa, and Ben’s son, Matt, by pret...
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Joe Panther
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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy busin...
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St. Augustine: The Oldest City
Presents a field trip through the oldest city in the United States, St. Augustine, Fla., showing res...
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The Deserter
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly...
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NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Disney’s Wonderful World, Walt Disney,...
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The Three Musketeers
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at...
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That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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Play of the Week: Rashomon
Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened....
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The Aquarians
A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's s...
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Fatima
This 60-minute documentary uses the reported miracle at Fatima in 1917 as a springboard for an exami...
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Behind the Planet of the Apes
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right ont...
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Santa
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south ...
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Cadetes de la naval
During World War II, two Mexican naval cadets become best friends and share some good times when off...
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La casa de la zorra
The owner of an illegal gambling casino witnesses all the problems in the life of her dissolute son ...
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Fantasía ranchera
Young composer in a small town where everyone is very nurturing of his talent finishes his first ope...
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The Million Dollar Nickel
Short subject anti-communist 'documentary' in which foreign-born movie stars such as Leslie Caron an...
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Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special
This documentary is hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and they take us through the history...
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Captains Courageous
A spoiled little rich boy learns what life is really like after he falls overboard in the middle of ...
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Black Water Gold
A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an hi...
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Mustang
Pechudo is a magnificent jet-black stallion who epitomizes the adjective, "freedom." Running wild in...
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Nosotros
The tragic romance between a woman with a dubious past and a young thief who reforms his life for lo...
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