Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 05, 1903
Died
Mar 28, 1991
Place of Birth
Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
Credits
20 titles
Carlos Montalbán
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
A Step Away
Spanish Narrator
Bananas
General Emilio M. Vargas
The Out-of-Towners
Manuel Vargas
Coronet Blue
The F.B.I.
Gen. Rafael Romero
Love Has Many Faces
Don Julian
The Lost Apple
Narrator
Pepe
Rodriguez
Beyond All Limits
Nacho
Naked City
Frank Baker
Backstage
Crowded Paradise
The Harder They Fall
Luís Agrandi
Robert Montgomery Presents
Studio One
Ramos
The Philco Television Playhouse
Saguro
El espejo
El carnaval del diablo
The Crime at Midnight
Johnny
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Rurale Captain