Ricardo Montalbán

Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino ( born November 25, 1920 in Mexico City; † January 14, 2009 in Los Angeles, California ) was a Mexican film actor.

Life

Montalbán grew up in Mexico and the United States. He first played small roles in theater productions in 1942 and entered the first time in a feature film. In Hollywood, he was set at MGM on the Latin Lover. Attempts to obtain other roles, mostly failed. 1948 and 1949 he played in the Esther Williams films on an island with you by Richard Thorpe and in Neptune's Daughter by Edward Buzzell.

Directed by John Sturges 1950 Montalbán starred in the police drama The Body in the dunes and in the Boxermelodrama The lone champion. In 1951 he had his until then important role in Colorado. Montalbán starred in the Western Archaic a jealous young Blackfoot Indians, chasing the white trappers Clark Gable, who married the beautiful chief's daughter. Finally, he got in My Man and I is the main role of the Mexican farm worker, the American citizen and works for a racist couple. His antagonist was Shelley Winters. Among his many films John Ford's Cheyenne Indian epic is emphasized in 1964, alongside John Wayne in 1973, he played in Dirty Gold. He had one of his best-known film roles as Kirk's Khan Noonien Singh opponent in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The film took a plot from the Star Trek episode Space Seed (Space Seed ) back to where he had played the Khan in 1966. A younger audience, he was known as Vincent Ludwig in The Naked Gun (1988).

His started in the 1950s stage career on Broadway, he sat in the 1970s with the title role in Don Juan in Hell continues.

Between 1977 and 1984 he played the lead role as host on the hit television series Fantasy Iceland. He also had a starring role in the less successful spin -off of Dynasty, the series The Empire - The Colbys. In 1978 he was awarded Was Won II for his role in the television series How the West with the Emmy. He was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard.

In 1980 his autobiography: A Life in Two Worlds. Ricardo Montalbán was married and had four children. He died in January 2009 at the age of 88 years in Los Angeles. He is on the Holy Cross Cemetery buried in the California city Culver City.