Carlos Montalbán

Acting

Born June 5, 1903, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico

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.

Filmography

• 1980A Step Away — Spanish Narrator
• 1971Bananas — General Emilio M. Vargas
• 1970The Out-of-Towners — Manuel Vargas
• Coronet Blue
• 1965Love Has Many Faces — Don Julian
• The F.B.I. — Gen. Rafael Romero
• 1962The Lost Apple — Narrator
• 1960Pepe — Rodriguez
• 1959Beyond All Limits — Nacho
• Naked City — Frank Baker
• 1957Backstage
• 1956Crowded Paradise
• 1956The Harder They Fall — Luís Agrandi
• Robert Montgomery Presents
• Studio One — Ramos
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Saguro
• 1943El espejo
• 1936El carnaval del diablo
• 1936The Adventures of Frank Merriwell — Rurale Captain
• 1936The Crime at Midnight — Johnny