
Carlos Montalbán
Biography
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
as Spanish Narrator

Bananas
1971
as General Emilio M. Vargas

The Out-of-Towners
1970
as Manuel Vargas

Love Has Many Faces
1965
as Don Julian
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The Lost Apple
1962
as Narrator

Pepe
1960
as Rodriguez

Beyond All Limits
1959
as Nacho

Backstage
1957

Crowded Paradise
1956

The Harder They Fall
1956
as Luís Agrandi

El espejo
1943

El carnaval del diablo
1936

The Crime at Midnight
1936
as Johnny

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936
as Rurale Captain