Ricardo Montalbán
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“Khan!”
~ Captain Kirk on Khan
Ricardo Montalbán was an actor who starred in Fantasy Island, Star Trek, and in any other movie where he could use his fake Mexican accent.
[edit] Fantasy Island
He was well-known as Mr. Roarke, who pretended to be an angel who would help people live out their fantasies but was really the Devil. Actors whose careers had died would be sent to the island as punishment. There they could live out fantasies not for themselves, but for their few remaining fans who wanted to see them captured, hunted, shot at, abused, or kissed on the mouth by Sonny Bono, that last one being a fate truly worse than death (though Cher enjoyed it).
Mr. Roarke was assisted by a diminuative demon called Tattoo, who's main purpose was acting incompetent so Mr. Roarke could seem more impressive. Nobody remembers the name of the actor who played Tattoo, but he became more famous as Dr. Evil's Minime in the Austin Powers movies.
[edit] Star Trek
Montalbán is also famous for his role as the shirtless Genghis Khan in the Star Trek television episode Space Seed, where he rivaled Captain Kirk to see who could date the most mini-skirted female ensigns and produce the most children. He returned to the shirtless roll 50 years later in the movie Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. The movie, while quite popular in America, was a flop in Japan. This is probably because the name of the character was mistranslated as 芸者, Japanese for "Geisha Girl." Fans were disappointed to learn that what they thought would be a movie about a topless Japanese teenage girl was actually about a topless Mexican old guy.
In his review of the movie, film critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Following this, they tried to boycott the movie, but failed because... well, it's a boycott. It won't work. Never does. Just makes you look like an asshole."
