Actor Ricardo Montalban died.

He played Arabs, Greeks and Japanese - Hollywood is now time to look and stereotypes. His dignity and competence, but this did not detract. With the Mexicans, Ricardo Montalban, the film loses transaction has a veteran artist.

 

Hamburg - In the U.S. series "Fantasy Iceland", he could magically wishes. In "Star Trek" he played the Sect leader Khan Noonien Singh, the Captain Kirk almost drove into madness. Ricardo Montalban was born in 1920 in Mexico City, was a size, especially the popcorn entertainment, even when his roles were often small.

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The American television and film industry took it as an ethnic cast. He played Arabs and Greeks, in "Sayonara" (1957) he was a Japanese on the side of Marlon Brando, in the Western "How the West Won What" (1978), he played an Indian.

Montalban had not only embody stereotypes, in his native Mexico, he was regarded as Charaktermime and played major roles in Spanish-language films such as "La Fuga" (The Flight, 1944) and "Nosotros" (We, 1945).

In America, he was from the Fünzigern a regular staff of the TV actors, whether in the Western series "The Virginian" or doctors drama "Dr. Kildare." The Film Factory estimated it as elegantly-crazy villains, so to see in "The Naked Gun" (1988).

The fixation on Hollywood's ethnic stereotypes Montalban made on a comprehensive engagement: He founded Nosotros, an institution which Hispanic film-makers in the United States.

Died The actor on Wednesday at the age of 88.