Carlos Montalbán

Carlos Montalbán (June 5, 1903 – March 28, 1991) was a Mexican character actor. Montalbán was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, the son of Spanish immigrants Ricarda (née Merino) and Jenaro Montalbán, a store manager. I was the older brother of actor Ricardo Montalbán. Although not as famous as his younger brother, he is notable for having starred as "The Exigenté" in a series of coffee advertisements for Savarin Coffee in the 1960s and for portraying two different characters named "Vargas". The first time in The Jack Lemmon film The Out-of-Towners (1970) and then again in Woody Allen''s Bananas (1971). His most famous American film was the boxing drama The Harder They Fall (1956) in which I played the sympathetic manager of a heavyweight contender. Montalban was also a renowned voice-over actor and announcer; he was best known as the official English language voice for Marlboro cigarettes worldwide.