
Carlos Montalbán
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.112 |
Birthday | 1903-06-05 |
Place of Birth | Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico |
Also Known As | Carlos Montalbán y Merino, |

1970

The Out-of-Towners
6.728/127
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
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The Out-of-Towners

1971

Bananas
6.691/747
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebelli...
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Bananas

1956

The Harder They Fall
7.12/137
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Tor...
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The Harder They Fall

1965

Love Has Many Faces
4.7/7
A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money.
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Love Has Many Faces

1936

The Crime at Midnight
0/0
A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage...
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The Crime at Midnight

1936

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
4/2
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysteriou...
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

1980

A Step Away
0/0
Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the doc...
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A Step Away

1960

Pepe
6.1/46
Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss....
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Pepe

1936

El carnaval del diablo
0/0
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El carnaval del diablo

1959

Beyond All Limits
5.2/6
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives with his wife and young son. Their lives are turned...
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Beyond All Limits

1943

El espejo
5/4
Faced with her own reflection, a woman traces the events that led her to renounce love, and the sacrifices she has made for her mother and sister.
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El espejo

1957

Backstage
5/2
The story of a famous singer who reaches the highest position in the world of varieties, but is forced to cede her throne to the young star of the mom...
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Backstage

1956

Crowded Paradise
0/0
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.
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