The famous Mexican and Spanish actor Ricardo Montalban at birth received a very long and sonorous name. Over the course of his 65-year career, he played many prominent roles in theater, film and television.
Ricardo Montalban was born on November 25, 1920 in Mexico City to Spanish immigrants Genaro Montalban and Ricarda Merina. As a child, he was very friendly with his brother and sister.
As a teenager, Montalban moved to Los Angeles, where his brother Carlos, who also became an actor, already
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The famous Mexican and Spanish actor Ricardo Montalban at birth received a very long and sonorous name. Over the course of his 65-year career, he played many prominent roles in theater, film and television.
Ricardo Montalban was born on November 25, 1920 in Mexico City to Spanish immigrants Genaro Montalban and Ricarda Merina. As a child, he was very friendly with his brother and sister.
As a teenager, Montalban moved to Los Angeles, where his brother Carlos, who also became an actor, already lived. The brothers moved to New York, where Ricardo soon got his first role in the play Her Cardboard Lover. In the movie, he first starred in 1943, magnificently “lit up” in Hollywood, and the first major role received in the film “A Case at the Border”, which was released in 1949. He played a lot of Asians, especially Japanese. At the time, he was the only Spanish-speaking actor to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
The promising actor had to return home because his mother was seriously ill. In Mexico, he became a star, which can be seen in many films shot in Spanish.
Ricardo has appeared on television and is best known for his role as Mr. Roark.
. Many of our fellow citizens Ricardo Montalban is familiar from the series “Dynasty”.
"The Naked Gun,"
Spy children" "Children of Spies-2" is a later work of the very able-bodied Ricardo.
In 1951, after falling from a horse, Ricardo Montalban suffered a serious injury, the consequences of which affected the rest of his life. In the early 90s, the pain became unbearable, and the actor underwent a severe operation, as a result of which he was left with paralyzed legs.
The love of Ricardo’s life was actress and model Giorgiane Young, with whom he lived for 63 years, and who gave birth to Montalban four children.
The actor died on January 14, 2009 and is buried in Los Angeles next to his wife, who left this world two years earlier. /