Carlos Montalbán

Born: 1903-06-05 Mexico City, Distrito Federal

Died: 1991-03-28

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. 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 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 ( ...