Happy 88th Birthday Richard.

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Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009) began acting in the early 1940s; one studio wanted to give him the screen name of “Ricky Martin.” Around 1948 he began to get some sizable roles: in two Esther Williams movies, in the noir thrillers Border Incident and Mystery Street, and in the World War 2 film Battleground. Some of his later film roles included playing a Native American in John Ford’s last Western, Cheyenne Autumn, appearances in two of the Planet of the Apes films, the villain in The Naked Gun, and Grandpa in two Spy Kids films (these two in spite of being confined to a wheelchair as a result of spinal surgery that paralyzed him below the waist).

But there are two roles that Montalban will always be most associated with. In 1977, he was cast as the mysterious Mr. Roarke, the star of ABC’s Fantasy Island, which ran through 1984. He also played probably the greatest of all Star Trek villains, Khan Noonien Singh, in the Original Series episode “Space Seed,” and then in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

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