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Fantasy Island: Created by Gene Levitt. With Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Wendy Schaal, Christopher Hewett. The mysterious Mr. Roarke runs a unique resort island in the Pacific Ocean that can fulfill any fantasy, but they rarely turn out as expected.
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- 2 min
- TV-G
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Airing from 1978 to 1984, the original series starred Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke, the enigmatic overseer of a mysterious island somewhere near Devil's Island, French Guiana in the Atlantic Ocean, where people from all walks of life could come and live out their fantasies, albeit for a price.
- 7
- 152, plus 2 TV movies (list of episodes)
- January 14, 1977 –, May 19, 1984
- ABC
Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as Tattoo in a publicity still for the television movie Return to Fantasy Island. Montalbán's best-known television role was that of Mr. Roarke on the television series Fantasy Island, which he played from 1977 until 1984.
- Mexican, American
- January 14, 2009 (aged 88), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, November 25, 1920, Mexico City, Mexico
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
Jan 15, 2009 · Jan. 15, 2009 12 AM PT. 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...
Jan 15, 2009 · Jan. 15, 2009. Ricardo Montalbán, one of Hollywood’s first Latino leading men, who had a long career as a television and movie actor but whose lingering fame perhaps owes most to a less august...
Jan 15, 2009 · Ricardo Montalban, king of Fantasy Island. The actor, who died yesterday, was one of Hollywood's first Latino leading men - but it was his role on Fantasy Island that lingers in the...
Jan 20, 2009 · Ricardo Montalban, the Mexican-born actor who became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV’s “Fantasy Island,” died Wednesday morning at his home,...
