Yes, I did. Montalban told Johnny Carson that he hated doing those movies. He didn’t want to be known as Mr. Esther Williams.
Did he keep his fine WOK physique?
RIP, Khan.
I saw some old movie once and, to my surprise, I recognized the young shirtless guy in the field as Montalban. Hubba, hubba, that guy had a bod!
I didn’t know he did three of them, but I did know that he duetted “Baby, it’s Cold Outside” with her in Neptune’s Daughter, which didn’t strike me as a Christmas movie.
As for McGoohan, color me knocked over with a feather. I believed I had read of his death years ago.
I look forward to seeing William “Glory Hog” Shatner whining in the press about not being invited to give Mr. Montalban’s eulogy.
He’s another one with a long Hollywood marriage. He was married to Georgiana for more than 50 years, until her death in 2007. And he only wanted $100k for playing KHAN in WOK.
I actually did yell “GONNNNNNE!” when I heard the news- I hope I wasn’t the only one geeky enough to do that. (I was alone.) ((And the guys on PTI used the word “gone” repeatedly in mentioning him.))
I wasn’t around in Montalban’s heyday but I’ll still remember him as Mr. Guitierrez in addition to Khan. That guy could say anything and make it sound suave.
I know its not original at all, but the sum total of the message I left on my sisters answering machine just now was “KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN is dead”.
RIP I knew it was coming, I just didn’t know when. Way too old to be worth any real points in the death pool. 
I think eulogies are usually supposed to be longer than a single word.
I am amazed looking at some of Montalban’s credits- he was in a freakin’ Dora the Explorer. But probably his most notable cartoon voice work was as Kim Possible’s wonderfully-named nemeisis Señor Senior, Sr.
I’m sorry he’s gone, but 88 is a very long life, and in addition to the infirmities of old age he had a lot of major back problems for the last few years that left him confined to a wheelchair, so while the man himself is no more at least at last he’s free of
wait for it
wait for it
da PAIN! Da Pain!
RIP Ricardo.
Incidentally, he’s one of the few celebrities I don’t believe I ever read a bad word about. People absolutely loved him- apparently an all around great guy.
And here’s a weird “only in the 60s” clip of him and washed-up-Bama-born-Disney-star-turned-born-again-circuit-entertainer Dean Jones in “pajamas” (and introduced by Minnie Pearl [?!]) singing a Sammy Davis Jr. song (though not to diminish Ricardo’s legacy, Sammy and Guinness did it better).
He played a Japanese man, opposite Marlon Brando, in 1957’s Sayonara.
i had just seen the bio of him on biography channel on sunday. quite the interesting life.
his back problems came about due to a bad fall in the movies.
he also got frito lay to stop using the frito bandito in commercials.
There’s a Ricardo Montalban Theatrein Hollywood. I’m not sure whether
1- it was named in his honor
2- he endowed it
3- it’s named for another Ricardo Montalban
but assuming 1 or 2, either way it’s a nice legacy.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is class.
Some trivia: he got the “Corinthian leather” commercials by being in the right place at the right time, the place being in an L.A. theater and the time being when Agnes Moorehead was undergoing agressive cancer treatment. He and Moorehead were starring in the play Don Juan in Hell (she had top billing as she was by far the bigger star even though he was Don Juan) and she had just agreed to do the commercials in a quasi ‘Endora elegant’ persona, but her increasing illness forced her to drop out pretty much at the last minute. E’er the professional, when she called her agent to say she couldn’t do it Ricardo was standing close by so she suggested him as she knew he needed work, and she loved his voice. Those commercials his own admission saved him from near destitution as the '70s weren’t a great time: he worked steadily but had a large family/college age kids/Hollywood lifestyle/D-list paychecks, but in addition to the coin they brought in the visibility led to his biggest payday as Mr. Roarke.
One of his “biggest fans” was his niece by marriage Judy Davis, the adopted daughter of Loretta Young (whose sister was married to Ricardo) and in fact the illegitimate biological daughter of Young and Clark Gable. She was pretty much disowned by her mother when she went forward with the story of her true parentage and said (on an interview show) that Montalban and his wife were the only conduit she had to her mother and that they were responsible for the reconciliation (what there was of it- Young never fully forgave her it seems [something of a Norma Desmond who never quite realized how forgotten she was, she was mortified at her squeaky clean reputation being ruined by the [quite true] news she had an out of wedlock child by a married superstar getting out). Young lived with the Montalbans for most of her final illness as she needed constant care and didn’t want to enter a nursing home.
What really speaks of a man who’s secure in himself was his suggestion
Most actors- most men- would be 300x more comfortable doing a scene in which a gorgeous woman wants to have sex with them than they would doing one that made fun of their age or style.
At least he got Caesar to safety before he went.
RIP, Armando.
How geeky am I that I know what movie you’re talking about? Sheesh, I saw them all in one day. The theater sold bananas in the lobby.
I actually feel a bit teary-eyed. Rest in peace, Mr. Montalban.
Methinks the world is now lit a little less brightly…