FrameThrower · Actors · Ricardo Montalban
Ricardo Montalban
2 films · 157 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1969–1988
Born 25 November 1920 · Mexico City, Mexico · died 14 January 2009
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino was a Mexican-American actor. He had a career spanning seven decades (motion pictures from 1943 to 2006) across radio, television, theatre, and film. During the mid-1970s, Montalbán was most notable as the spokesman in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba, in which he famously extolled the "soft Corinthian leather" used for its interior. He also advertised the Chrysler New Yorker. From 1977 to 1984, he became famous as Mr. Roarke the main star in the television series Fantasy Island.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 157 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1969–1988
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- Emmy Award
- Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
- Order of St. Gregory the Great
- Knight in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 157 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ricardo takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 52% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Ricardo takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 157 frames from Ricardo Montalban's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.