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Carlos Montalbán
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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 w…
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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.
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No Poster
A Step Away
as Spanish Narrator
Bananas
as General Emilio M. Vargas
The Out-of-Towners
as Manuel Vargas
Love Has Many Faces
as Don Julian
No Poster
The Lost Apple
as Narrator
Pepe
as Rodriguez
Beyond All Limits
as Nacho
Backstage
Crowded Paradise
The Harder They Fall
as Luís Agrandi
El espejo
El carnaval del diablo
The Crime at Midnight
as Johnny
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as Rurale Captain