Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 6/5/1903
- Birthplace
- Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
- Died
- 3/28/1991 (aged 87)
- Gender
- Male
- 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. 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.
12 titles

Bananas
1971
General Emilio M. Vargas

The Harder They Fall
1956
Luís Agrandi

The Out-of-Towners
1970
Manuel Vargas

Pepe
1960
Rodriguez

The F.B.I.
1965TV
Gen. Rafael Romero

Naked City
1958TV
Frank Baker

Studio One
1948TV
Ramos

Love Has Many Faces
1965
Don Julian

Beyond All Limits
1959
Nacho

Robert Montgomery Presents
1950TV

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948TV
Saguro

El espejo
1943



