Ricardo Cortez

🎂 Data nașterii: 1900-09-17 (New York City, New York, USA)

Ricardo Cortez (September 19, 1900 – April 28, 1977) was an American film actor who began his career during the silent film era. Born Jacob Krantz in New York City into a Jewish family, he worked on Wall Street in a broker's office and as a boxer before his looks got him into the film business. Hollywood executives changed his name to Cortez to appeal to film-goers as a "Latin lover" to compete with such highly popular actors of the era as Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro and Antonio Moreno. When rumour began to circulate that Cortez was not actually Spanish, the studios tried to pass him off as a different type of Latin, French, before they finally admitted his (supposedly) Viennese origin. Cortez appeared in over 100 films. He played opposite Joan Crawford in Montana Moon in 1930, played Sam Spade in the original The Maltese Falcon in 1931, co-starred with Charles Farrell and Bette Davis in The Big Shakedown and Wonder Bar (with Al Jolson and Dolores del Río) in 1934. He also played Perry Mason in the 1936 film The Case of the Black Cat. Although he began his career playing romantic leads with actresses like Greta Garbo, when sound cinema arrived, his powerful delivery and New York accent made him an ideal villain and conman, and he switched from sex symbol to character actor. Cortez was married to silent film actress Alma Rubens until her death of pneumonia in 1931. When he retired from the film business, Cortez went to work as a stockbroker for Solomon Brothers on New York's Wall Street. He died in New York City in 1977 and was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. He was the older brother of noted cinematographer Stanley Cortez (born Stanislaus Krantz).

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Tomorrow We Live

The Phantom of Crestwood

The Walking Dead

Charlie Chan in Reno

Hollywood

White Shoulders

The Maltese Falcon

The Locket

Blackmail

Bunco Squad

Murder Over New York

In the Name of Love

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

The House on 56th Street

Midnight Mary

Torch Singer

The Inner Circle

Special Agent

The Man with Two Faces

13 femei

The Last Hurrah

Make Your Own Bed

Mockery

Bad Company

The Big Shakedown

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

Symphony of Six Million

Ten Cents a Dance

Illicit

Transgression

Montana Moon

Big Business Girl

I Killed That Man

Flesh

Torrent

Wonder Bar

Her Man

Behind Office Doors

The Case of the Black Cat

The Gentleman from America

Frisco Kid

I Am a Thief

Postal Inspector

Hat, Coat and Glove

The Bedroom Window

The Phantom in the House

The Younger Generation

City Girl

Is My Face Red?

Men of Chance

The Sorrows of Satan

No One Man

West of Shanghai

The White Cockatoo

Mystery in Mexico

Shadow of Doubt

Romance of the Rio Grande

A Lost Lady

The Firebird

The Lost Zeppelin

The Californian

Her Husband Lies

Broadway Bad

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

Mandalay

The Spaniard

The Eagle of the Sea

The Swan

Feet of Clay

La Danseuse Orchidée

Reckless Living

The Pony Express

Excess Baggage

Hollywood Newsreel

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

Man Hunt

Rubber Racketeers

Breakdowns of 1936