Ricardo Montalban

Despite being one of the first heavily employed and high profile Hispanic actors working in post-war Hollywood of the 1950s and ‘60s, Ricardo Montalbán became strangely more famous later in his career – first, as the mysterious host Mr. Roarke on the TV hit drama, “Fantasy Island” (ABC, 1978-1984), followed not long after by his classic turn as Captain Kirk’s arch nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (1982).

Montalbán was born on Nov. 20, 1920 in Mexico City, Mexico. As a teenager he moved to the United States at the behest of his elder brother Carlos Montalban,