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    Carlos Montalbán

    1903-06-05 (120 years old) in Mexico City, Distrito Federal

    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.

    Movies

    actor
    A Step Away
    0 %|Jan 2, 1980
    Documentary
    poster
    Bananas
    67.06 %|Apr 28, 1971
    Comedy
    poster
    The Out-of-Towners
    67.67 %|May 28, 1970
    Comedy
    poster
    Love Has Many Faces
    47 %|Feb 24, 1965
    Drama
    poster
    Pepe
    60.330000000000005 %|Dec 21, 1960
    Comedy, Music
    poster
    Beyond All Limits
    52 %|Jul 8, 1959
    Drama
    poster
    Backstage
    50 %|May 2, 1957
    poster
    Crowded Paradise
    0 %|Jun 21, 1956
    Drama
    poster
    The Harder They Fall
    70.9 %|May 9, 1956
    Drama
    poster
    El espejo
    50 %|Jun 16, 1943
    Drama
    poster
    El carnaval del diablo
    0 %|Dec 1, 1936
    Drama, Comedy, Music
    poster
    The Crime at Midnight
    0 %|Feb 22, 1936
    Crime
    poster
    The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
    40 %|Jan 13, 1936
    Adventure

    Series

    poster
    Coronet Blue
    55 %|May 29, 1967
    Mystery, Drama
    poster
    The F.B.I.
    53.5 %|Sep 19, 1965
    Crime, Drama, Mystery
    poster
    The F.B.I.
    53.5 %|Sep 19, 1965
    Crime, Drama, Mystery
    poster
    Naked City
    53.33 %|Sep 30, 1958
    Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
    poster
    Robert Montgomery Presents
    43.33 %|Jan 30, 1950
    Drama
    poster
    Studio One
    44 %|Nov 7, 1948
    Drama
    poster
    The Philco Television Playhouse
    56 %|Oct 3, 1948
    Drama