Ricardo Montalban dead, aged 88
p2pnet news view | Movies:- Actor Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán Merino who among ogther roles, played Khan Noonien Singh in the first season of the original Star Trek series, and the 1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and who more recently also featured in the Spy Kids movies, has died at the age of 88.
“Born Nov. 25, 1920, Montalban was already a movie star in his native country when he was recruited by Hollywood in 1945. Beginning in the late 1950s, television became his main source of screen work,” says E! Online.
Montalban pitched the Chrysler Cordoba commercials in which he, “cooed over the sedan interior’s ’soft Corinthean leather’,” spawning a thousand parodies, and more than a little confusion, says the story.
In the 1980s, Montalban was pressed on the subject by David Letterman and he responded it was a leather that was, “very durable, very pliable and very durable, so Corinthean!”
“But does it mean anything?” Letterman asked. “Nothing,” Montalban conceded.
E! Online – Ricardo Montalban, TV’s Mr. Roarke, Trek’s Khan, Dead at 88, January 14, 2009
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