Thursday 15 January 2009

Ricardo Montalban RIP (1920-2009)

Thursday 15 January 2009
Mexican film/theatre actor Ricardo Montalban -- best known for starring in '70s series Fantasy Island, and as the villainous Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan -- has died at his L.A home. He was 88.

Montalban's long career started in 1942 and he appeared in a staggering amount of TV shows and films over the past sixty years, such as: Star Trek, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, Wonder Woman, The Colbys, Dynasty, The Naked Gun, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes, Chicago Hope and Dream On. He continued to work into his eighties, most notably in both Spy Kids sequels.

He is survived by four children from his late-wife Georgiana, who died in 2007, and two grand-children.