This is what it says on the website:
Only because no one’s posted it yet… Youtube: The USS Cordoba
A real class act and a wonderful role model for our youth to aspire to. Dios me lo guarde, Sr. Montalban.
And since it comes up from time to time… according to Ricardo himself, Shatner, Nimoy, and others, that was not a prosthetic chest in WRATH OF KHAAAAAAANNN, but he did shave it (and in fact I’m guessing he used his own wardrobe as well).
Trivia: his grandson, Victor John Montalban, is a musician who (did not inherit looks and) goes by the stage name “Ritardo” Montalban. (His Noisy MySpace- I wonder if he gave it to himself or just adapted it after the 4009th time he was called that in 3rd grade [as it was a schoolyard taunt even in Alabama before FANTASY ISLAND.) His grandson grew up in Puerto Rico, though Montalban was originally Mexican and had lived in California for almost 70 years. I’ve wondered if the children of people like Montalban (i.e. children of affluent Meso-Americans who have lived in the U.S. for most if not all of their lives) identify as Hispanic.
One last one: his daughter Laura (left [at least I hope]) is a successful designer/decorator/executive.
As I understand it, he was ever thus. There are few Hollywood actors I admire, but coming up through the ranks and racism as he did, Montalban was one.
Did she design that gentleman’s coat? :eek:
RIP, Boss.
If you meant the man singing in the commercials, no, that was Sergio Franchi, an Italian tenor who died in 1990.
I couldn’t find a video of the commercials, but I did find one of Franchi performing on the Ed Sullivan Show.
I think it was specially designed for him when he was keynote speaker at the Play-dough convention.
He was on an episode of the late and not particularly lamented HBO show Dream On (this was before HBO was synonymous with must see original shows) in 1990 as a philandering sleazy director attending a function with his wife, played by Yvonne DeCarlo. If you ever saw the show you know that every episode was constantly interspliced with clips from old movies and TV shows, but the cool thing about that particular episode was that scenes of him and Yvonne together were spliced with clips from previous times they’d worked together (a 1953 movie called Sombrero and a couple of TV guest shots in the 60s and 70s) to give flashbacks of a long but unhappy marriage.
Is it bad that my second thought upon reading about this was:
“Quien es mas muerto? Fernando Lamas o Ricardo Montalban?”
(Old SNL sketch)
RIP, Mr. Montalban.
I am also impressed by the writing in that blog entry. I can practically hear Ricardo Montalban’s voice itself when I read the account of the conversation with him.
I take it the blogger is a screenwriter or something, so it makes sense he’d be able to do that kind of thing.
I want to learn how to do that.
-FrL-
I’ll miss Mr. Roarke and Khan. I was watching “When the Lions Roared” on TMC this week and he was one of the actors interviewed for it.
It was really strange to hear that he had died yesterday…my husband and I had just watched ST:TWOK on Tuesday evening and were wondering how Montalban was doing, how old he was now and such. And then on Wednesday morning I was flipping channels and ran across Armando in “Conquest of POA”…then when I turned on the news I heard about his death. Weird.
Sad that he is gone, but what a rich and interesting life he led.
Vaya con Dios, Señor Montalban. Baby, it’s just that much colder outside. 
So few actors today can take themselves so lightly and yet their professionalism so sincerely. He was, as many have pointed out, truly a class act.
No matter what he did, he seemed to always do it to the ultimate of his ability.
I keep hearing older actors such as Montalban and Newman being called “class acts” or genuine nice guys and I started to wonder how many of today’s actors would get those labels. Anyone?
I suspect you’ll hear it about Tom Hanks and probably Michael J. Fox among others.
sounds like a good separate thread from this memorial one 
Yeah, but I have to get to work. Anyone else is welcome to start it.