Actor Ricardo Montalban on his Career and Playing Khan in Star Trek 2
Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban talks about his career as well on his role of playing Khan in Star Trek 2. Montalban says if I had started my career on let's say on Fantasy Island and I had only been on Fantasy Island the Chrysler commercial perhaps the audiences would be seeing me in a different character perhaps they would think twice before believe me but I would like to think that I've been here for so many years Jim, and that I've done so may years Jim and I have done so many roles in the past that after all, I've signed my contract with in 1945 this is 1945 and I've been working consistantly over the years so I think by now the audiences would accept me. Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalb》 y Merino, November 25, 1920 January 14, 2009) was a Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning six decades (motion pictures from 1943 to 2006) and many notable roles. During the mid-1970s, Montalb》 was notable as the spokesman in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba, in which he famously extolled the "rich Corinthian leather" used for its interior. He also advertised the Chrysler New Yorker.[1] From 1977 to 1984, he became famous as Mr. Roarke the main star in the television series Fantasy Island. He played Khan Noonien Singh in both the 1967 episode "Space Seed" of the first season of the original Star Trek series, and the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He won an Emmy Award in 1978 for his role in the mini series How the West Was Won and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. Into his 80s, he continued to perform, often providing voices for animated films and commercials, and appearing in several Spy Kids films as "Grandfather Valentin".





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