Carlos Montalbán
14 movies · 6 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 5, 1903
- Died
- Mar 28, 1991 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
- Also known as
- Carlos Montalbán y Merino
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.
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Montalbán was also a renowned voice-over actor and announcer; he was best known as the official Spanish language voice for Marlboro cigarettes worldwide.
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Known for
Carlos Montalbán: movies and TV shows
Acting (20)
- 1980 A Step Away
as Spanish Narrator
- 1971 Bananas
as General Emilio M. Vargas
- 1970 The Out-of-Towners
as Manuel Vargas
- 1967
- 1965
- 1965 Love Has Many Faces
as Don Julian
- 1962 The Lost Apple
as Narrator
- 1960 Pepe
as Rodriguez
- 1959 Beyond All Limits
as Nacho
- 1958
- 1957
- 1956
- 1956 The Harder They Fall
as Luís Agrandi
- 1950
- 1948
- 1948
- 1943
- 1936
- 1936 The Crime at Midnight
as Johnny
- 1936 The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as Rurale Captain