Carlos Montalbán

Carlos Montalbán

1903-06-05 – 1991-03-28 (age 87) Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
View on IMDb ↗

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.

Photos

Known For

Bananas
Bananas

1971

as General Emilio M. Vargas

The Harder They Fall
The Harder They Fall

1956

as Luís Agrandi

Backstage
El espejo
Pepe
Pepe

1960

as Rodriguez

The Out-of-Towners
The Out-of-Towners

1970

as Manuel Vargas

Love Has Many Faces
Love Has Many Faces

1965

as Don Julian

Beyond All Limits
Beyond All Limits

1959

as Nacho

Crowded Paradise
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
The Crime at Midnight
🎦
A Step Away

1980

as Spanish Narrator

🎦
The Lost Apple

1962

as Narrator