Carlos Montalbán
Nacimiento : 1903-06-05, Mexico City, Distrito Federal
Muerte : 1991-03-28
Historia
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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Spanish Narrator
Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the documentary include USA team swimmer of Puerto Rican origin Jesse Vassallo; legendary Cuban track and field athlete Alberto Juantorena; Mexican diver Carlos Girón; American diver Greg Louganis; and the Puerto Rico national basketball team, among others. At the end of the film, the athletes expressed their hopes of being "a step away" from the 1980 Olympics Games; however, these hopes were shattered by the political crisis and the eventual USA-led boycott to the Olympic Games held in Moscow in 1980.
General Emilio M. Vargas
Cuando Fielding Mellish, un torpe y tímido probador de productos es abandonado por su novia, la sensual y atractiva Nancy, decide cogerse unas vacaciones y se dirige a la pequeña república de San Marcos. Pero lo único que consigue es verse envuelto en un sinfín de divertidísimos líos burocráticos en el pequeño país que tienen como telón de fondo la guerrilla subversiva. Todo se complica aún más cuando los rebeldes guerrilleros toman el poder y su líder se vuelve completamente loco. Sus propios compañeros toman una drástica decisión: cambiar al líder por Mellish, creyendo que él podrá salvar el país. Pero la suerte nunca parece estar del lado de Mellish y es secuestrado por el F.B.I. que le somete a juicio y le acusa de subversivo.
Manuel Vargas
George está a punto de ascender en su empresa, ocupando un importante puesto en la central de Nueva York, pero antes debe presentarse a una entrevista. Decide entonces viajar acompañado de su esposa para disfrutar de la ciudad. Sin embargo, lo que esperaban que fuese un viaje de ensueño se convierte en una auténtica pesadilla: vuelos desviados, reservas anuladas, trenes perdidos, huelgas paralizantes, siniestros desconocidos, equipajes extraviados.
Rodriguez
Pepe, el mozo de cuadras de un rancho mexicano, está muy encariñado con uno de los caballos, pero su jefe se lo vende a un director de cine americano que piensa utilizarlo en su próxima película. Entonces Pepe decide buscar trabajo en Hollywood para estar cerca del caballo. Film con numerosos cameos de grandes estrellas como Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Jack Lemmon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis y Dean Martin, entre otros.
Nacho
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 upside down when an American of dubious morality comes into town. The American and the fisherman's wife had been lovers years and years ago -- and now the fisherman begins to suspect that the son he always thought was his, is really the offspring of this foreign intruder.
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 moment, repeating the same situation that she starred in in her youth.
A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.
Luís Agrandi
Eddie Willis (Humphrey Bogart), un veterano periodista, es contratado como agente de prensa por Nick Benko (Rod Steiger), un hombre sin escrúpulos, para que consiga hacer popular a Toro Moreno, un gigantesco pero torpe aspirante a boxeador, a quien hacen creer que es un gran campeón a base de amañar sus combates.
Una mujer rememora ante el espejo su pasado romántico y el sacrificio que realizó en beneficio de su madre y de su hermana.
Johnny
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 of suspects, most of them being fellow cops. Alternate language version of MIDNIGHT PHANTOM (1935)
Rurale Captain
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
