Carlos Montalbán

Who was Carlos Montalbán?

Carlos Montalbán was a Mexican character actor.

Montalbán was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, the son of Ricarda 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 Exigente" in a series of coffee advertisements for Savarin Coffee in the 1960s and 1970s and for portraying two different characters named "Vargas". The first time in the Jack Lemmon film The Out-of-Towners and then again in Woody Allen's Bananas. His most famous American film was the boxing drama The Harder They Fall 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.