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    In good action/adventures you really need a great villian for the hero to play off of

    Dark Knight had Ledgers Joker

    Bond had too many to count

    Braveheart had Longshanks - Patrick McGoohan who also died today

    Star Trek's ultimate villain has to be Montalban's Kahn Noonien Singh, and the American Film Institute ranks Khan as one of the top 100 villains in film history.

    Link....

    Ricardo Montalban Dies At 88

    Ricardo Montalban, the velvet voiced Mexican born actor who greeted the plane as Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island, died in his Beverly Hills home Wednesday. He was 88.

    His son-in-law Gilbert Smith tells PEOPLE that Montalban had been in declining health for months and died from "complications of advancing age."

    "He was in peace," said Smith, who said that the actor was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. "He will be missed," added Smith.

    Born in Mexico City and partially educated in the U.S., Montalban began his career in the early '40s playing bit parts on Broadway and lead roles in films from his native country. In 1947, MGM brought him to Hollywood to be a romantic lead.

    While he enjoyed a long career in film, he became an icon both as the white-suited Roarke, the star of the high rated ABC drama, and as Kahn, Captain Kirk's nemesis in the 1982 film Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn. Younger audiences know him as Grandpa Cortez in the Spy Kids films.

    Montalban was proceeded in death by one year by his wife of 63 years, Gorgiana Young, the younger sister of his frequent co-star Loretta Young.

    "[She is] the only love of my life," the actor said in 2004.

    He is survived by four children and six grandchildren.
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    And of course, most famous for his Chrysler Cordoba commercials, touting it's 'rich corrrrrinthian leather'.

    RIP Ricardo
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    • #3
      He really was a great actor, and above all, had a lot of class.

      Khan was one of his defining roles, and you could see he enjoyed doing it.
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      • #4
        Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

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          http://www.khaaan.com/

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          • #6
            No Way !!!!
            Khan is dead......
            He was in Battlestar Galactica as well wasn't he ?
            That or Buck Rogers....(if you have any pictures of Erin gray, put them here now. The net seems to have been almost purged of them...)
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