Carlos Montalbán y Merino (June 5, 1904March 28, 1991) was a Mexican
character actor.
Early life
Montalbán was born in
Torreón
Torreón () is a city and seat of Torreón Municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2021, the city's population was 735,340. The metropolitan population as of 2015 was 1,497,734, making it the ninth-biggest metropolitan area in ...
in
Coahuila, Mexico, the son of Ricarda Merino Jiménez and Genaro Balbino Montalbán Busano, a store manager.
His parents were
Spanish
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**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
.
Career
Montalbán was the older brother of actor
Ricardo Montalbán
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (; ; 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 known for performances in a var ...
and is remembered for portraying two different characters named "Vargas" in well-remembered films; ''
The Out-of-Towners'' (1970) starring
Jack Lemmon, and
Woody Allen
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's ''
Bananas
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'' (1971). His best remembered role is likely in the American boxing drama ''
The Harder They Fall The Harder They Fall may refer to:
* ''The Harder They Fall'' (1956 film), an American boxing film noir directed by Mark Robson.
* ''The Harder They Fall'' (2021 film), an American Western film directed by Jeymes Samuel.
* "The Harder They Fall", ...
'' (1956), where he plays the sympathetic manager of a heavyweight contender.
He appeared as "''El Exigente''" in a series of
coffee
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Seeds of ...
advertisements for Savarin Coffee in the 1960s and 1970s. Montalbán was also a renowned voice-over actor and announcer, best known as the official
Spanish language
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voice for
Marlboro cigarettes worldwide.
Death
Montalbán died on March 28, 1991, in his
Manhattan
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home in
New York City
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of
cardiovascular disease and was survived by his wife Mary, a New Yorker,
two brothers, Pedro and the actor
Ricardo Montalbán
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (; ; 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 known for performances in a var ...
, and a sister, Carmen, also from Torreon, Mexico.
Filmography
References
External links
*
Fandango filmography
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1904 births
1991 deaths
Mexican emigrants to the United States
Mexican male film actors
Male actors from Coahuila
20th-century Mexican male actors
People from Torreón