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Carlos Montalbán

Carlos Montalbán

Born: 1903-06-05 • Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico

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.

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Filmography
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A Step Away
1980 • Spanish Narrator
Bananas poster
Bananas
1971 • General Emilio M. Vargas
The Out-of-Towners poster
The Out-of-Towners
1970 • Manuel Vargas
Love Has Many Faces poster
Love Has Many Faces
1965 • Don Julian
No Image
The Lost Apple
1962 • Narrator
Pepe poster
Pepe
1960 • Rodriguez
Beyond All Limits poster
Beyond All Limits
1959 • Nacho
Backstage poster
Backstage
1957
Crowded Paradise poster
Crowded Paradise
1956
The Harder They Fall poster
The Harder They Fall
1956 • Luís Agrandi
El espejo poster
El espejo
1943
El carnaval del diablo poster
El carnaval del diablo
1936
The Crime at Midnight poster
The Crime at Midnight
1936 • Johnny
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell poster
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936 • Rurale Captain