Carlos Montalbán

Carlos Montalbán

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: Acting

Born: Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, 1903-06-05

Died: 1991-03-28

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1936	The Adventures of Frank Merriwell	Rurale Captain	40
2	1936	The Crime at Midnight	Johnny	0
3	1936	El carnaval del diablo		0
4	1943	El espejo		56
5	1956	The Harder They Fall	Luís Agrandi	71
6	1956	Crowded Paradise		0
7	1957	Backstage		50
8	1959	Beyond All Limits	Nacho	52
9	1960	Pepe	Rodriguez	62
10	1965	Love Has Many Faces	Don Julian	47
11	1970	The Out-of-Towners	Manuel Vargas	68
12	1971	Bananas	General Emilio M. Vargas	67
13	1980	A Step Away	Spanish Narrator	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Saguro	63
2	1948	Studio One	Ramos	50
3	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		56
4	1958	Naked City	Frank Baker	55
5	1965	The F.B.I.	Gen. Rafael Romero	55
6	1965	The F.B.I.		55
7	1967	Coronet Blue		55

Carlos Montalbán

Film

Television