Perhaps best known as Mr Roarke from TV's Fantasy Island--Montalban's career was so much more....
He appeared in such films as The Singing Nun, using his distinct voice in The Ant Bully. For Robert Rodriguez in both Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over ,Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams; and played funny in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
His other TV roles include an episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "The Wild Wild West", and "Dr. Kildare"
For me though it was a 1967 episode of "Star Trek" called Space Seed portraying the villainous Khan Noonien Singh that I will never forget as a Trek fan...He would return as the genetically enhanced human for the big screen sequel Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan and solidified himself as the best Trek villain period...
Read the LA Times obituary
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