Ricardo Cortez

Known For: Acting
Born: September 17, 1900
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Died: April 28, 1977

Ricardo Cortez

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 D…

Filmography

Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo

2014 · Self (archive footage)

Complicated Women

2003 · Self (archive footage)

Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown

1986 · Self as Don Rafael Brull (archive footage)

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

1960 · Self

The Last Hurrah

1958 · Sam Weinberg

This Is Your Life

1952 · Self

Bunco Squad

1950 · Tony Weldon / Anthony Wells

Mystery in Mexico

1948 · John Norcross

Blackmail

1947 · Ziggy Cranston

The Locket

1946 · Drew Bonner

The Inner Circle

1946 · Duke York

Make Your Own Bed

1944 · Wilson / Fritz Alden

Tomorrow We Live

1942 · The Ghost, Alexander Caesar Martin

Rubber Racketeers

1942 · Gilin

Who Is Hope Schuyler?

1942 · Anthony Pearce

I Killed That Man

1941 · Roger Phillips

World Premiere

1941 · Mark Saunders

A Shot in the Dark

1941 · Phillip Richards

Romance of the Rio Grande

1941 · Ricardo de Vega

Murder Over New York

1940 · George Kirby

Girl in 313

1940 · Director

Free, Blonde and 21

1940 · Director

City of Chance

1940 · Director

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

1939 · Director

The Escape

1939 · Director

Charlie Chan in Reno

1939 · Dr. Ainsley

Chasing Danger

1939 · Director

Inside Story

1939 · Director

Mr. Moto's Last Warning

1939 · Fabian

City Girl

1938 · Charles Blake

Breakdowns of 1937

1937 · Self

West of Shanghai

1937 · Gordon Creed

The Californian

1937 · Ramon Escobar

Her Husband Lies

1937 · J. Ward Thomas

Breakdowns of 1936

1936 · Self

Talk of the Devil

1936 · Ray Allen

The Case of the Black Cat

1936 · Perry Mason

Postal Inspector

1936 · Inspector Bill Davis

The Walking Dead

1936 · Nolan

Man Hunt

1936 · Frank Kingman

The Murder of Dr. Harrigan

1936 · George Lambert

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

1936

Frisco Kid

1935 · Paul Morra

Special Agent

1935 · Alexander Carston

Manhattan Moon

1935 · Dan Moore

Shadow of Doubt

1935 · Sim

The White Cockatoo

1935 · Jim Sundean

I Am a Thief

1934 · Pierre Londais

The Firebird

1934 · Herman Brandt

A Lost Lady

1934 · Ellinger

The Man with Two Faces

1934 · Ben Weston

Hat, Coat and Glove

1934 · Robert Mitchell

Wonder Bar

1934 · Harry

Hollywood Newsreel

Hollywood Newsreel

1934 · Himself

Mandalay

1934 · Tony Evans

The Big Shakedown

1934 · Dutch Barnes

The House on 56th Street

1933 · Bill Blaine

Big Executive

1933 · Victor Conway

Torch Singer

1933 · Tony Cummings

Midnight Mary

1933 · Leo

Broadway Bad

1933 · Craig Cutting

Flesh

1932 · Nicky

The Phantom of Crestwood

1932 · Gary Curtis

Thirteen Women

1932 · Police Sergeant Barry Clive

Is My Face Red?

1932 · William Poster

Symphony of Six Million

1932 · Felix

No One Man

1932 · Bill Hanaway

Men of Chance

1931 · Johnny Silk

Reckless Living

Reckless Living

1931 · Curly

Bad Company

1931 · Goldie Gorio

Transgression

1931 · Don Arturo de Borgus

Big Business Girl

1931 · Robert J. Clayton

Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)

1931 · Self

The Maltese Falcon

1931 · Sam Spade

White Shoulders

1931 · Lawrence Marchmont

Behind Office Doors

1931 · Ronnie Wales

Illicit

1931 · Price Baines

Ten Cents a Dance

1931 · Bradley Carlton

Her Man

1930 · Johnnie

Montana Moon

1930 · Jeff

The Lost Zeppelin

1929 · Tom Armstrong

The Phantom in the House

1929 · Paul Wallis

Midstream

1929 · James Stanwood

New Orleans

1929 · Jim Morley

The Younger Generation

1929 · Morris Goldfish

Excess Baggage

1928 · Val D'Errico

Prowlers of the Sea

1928 · Carlos De Neve

Ladies of the Night Club

1928 · George Merrill

Woman of Destiny

1928 · Yoanes Etchegarry

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

1927 · Paris

By Whose Hand?

1927 · Agent X-9

Mockery

1927 · Dimitri

New York

1927 · Michael Angelo Cassidy

The Eagle of the Sea

1926 · Captain Sazarac

The Sorrows of Satan

1926 · Geoffrey Tempest

The Cat's Pajamas

1926

Volcano

1926 · Stéphane Séquineau

Torrent

1926 · Don Rafael Brull

Not So Long Ago

1925 · Billy Ballard

The Pony Express

1925 · Jack Weston

In the Name of Love

1925 · Raoul Melnotte

The Spaniard

1925 · Don Pedro de Barrego

The Swan

1925 · Dr. Walter, the Tutor

Argentine Love

1924 · Juan Martin

This Woman

1924 · Whitney Duane

The City That Never Sleeps

1924 · Mark Roth

Feet of Clay

1924 · Tony Channing

The Bedroom Window

1924 · Robert Delano

A Society Scandal

1924 · Harrison Peters

The Next Corner

1924 · Don Arturo

The Call of the Canyon

1923 · Larry Morrison

Hollywood

1923 · Ricardo Cortez

Children of Jazz

1923 · Ted Carter

Sixty Cents an Hour

1923 · William Davis

The Gentleman from America

1923

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