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  1. Mar 4, 2023 · Victor Montalbán was born on April 18, 1952, in the United States of America. He is the son of Ricardo Montalbán, and his wife actress and model Georgiana Young. As of 2023, he is 71 years old, he is the youngest child of her parents.

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    He was born in Mexico City on November 25, 1920, the youngest of four children to Castilian Spanish immigrants, Ricarda Merino and Jenaro Montalbán. His father was a dry goods store owner. Montalbán moved to Los Angeles as a teen and lived with his much older brother Carlos Montalbán, who was then pursuing show business as both an actor and dancer....

    Returning to Mexico to care for his extremely ill mother, his dark good looks and magnetic style helped propel him into the Spanish-language film industry. After nearly a dozen or so films, he was on the verge of stardom in Mexico when MGM took an interest in him and he relocated back to Los Angeles. Making his Hollywood leading debut as a robust b...

    His strong work ethic and reservoir of talent enabled him to continue on television long after his exotic beefcake status in films had waned. He had married Loretta Young's half-sister Georgiana Young in 1944, and appeared on his sister-in-law's television series (The New Loretta Young Show (1962)) several times. He also showed up in a number of te...

    Over the years, he continued to appear occasionally on the big screen, typically playing continental smoothies, in such films as Love Is a Ball (1963), Madame X (1966) and Sweet Charity (1969), but it was television that finally made him a household name. Montalban captivated audiences as the urbane, white-suited concierge of mystery Mr. Roarke in ...

    An Emmy winner for his role in the miniseries How the West Was Won (1976) and a noteworthy villain in the Dynasty (1981) spin-off soap series The Colbys (1985), Montalban was also famous for a series of television commercials in which he returned somewhat to his \"Latin lover\" persona, primarily in a series of slick commercials for Chrysler's Cord...

    • November 25, 1920
    • January 14, 2009
  2. May 12, 2009 · Ricardo Montalban was one of the most well-known Mexican-born Hollywood actors of all time. But for his grandson Alex Montalbán, a senior at the University of Michigan, the perception of this iconic actor is much more complex and filled with nostalgia.

  3. Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (/ ˌ m ɒ n t əl ˈ b ɑː n / MON-təl-BAHN; Spanish: [montalˈβan]; November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican and American film and television actor. Montalbán's career spanned seven decades, during which he became widely known for performances in genres from crime and drama to ...

  4. May 2, 2022 · Ricardo, who starred in the TV show Fantasy Island and the Star Trek and Planet of the Apes franchises, was a bankable star of TV and film. But to Mark, Victor, Laura, and Anita Montalbán — his four children with wife Georgiana Young — he was just dad.

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  5. Jan 15, 2009 · Ricardo Montalban, the suave leading man who was one of the first Mexican-born actors to make it big in Hollywood and who was best known for his role as Mr. Roarke on TV’s “Fantasy Island,” has...

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  7. Oct 4, 2010 · Ricardo Montalban died at age 88 in January 2009. Although his career spanned seven decades, it wasn’t until the mid-1970s that he became a household name doing TV commercials in that...

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