Ricardo Cortez
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1900-09-17 (77 years old)
Deathday
1977-04-28
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
Jacob Krantz
Jack Crane
Ricardo Cortez
Biography
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...
Acting
1942
as The Ghost, Alexander Caesar Martin
1932
as Gary Curtis
1936
as Nolan
1939
as Dr. Ainsley
1923
as Ricardo Cortez
1931
as Lawrence Marchmont
1931
as Sam Spade
1946
as Drew Bonner
1947
as Ziggy Cranston
1950
as Tony Weldon / Anthony Wells
1940
as George Kirby
1925
as Raoul Melnotte
1939
as Fabian
1933
as Bill Blaine
1933
as Leo
1933
as Tony Cummings
1946
as Duke York
1935
as Alexander Carston
1934
as Ben Weston
1932
as Police Sergeant Barry Clive
1958
as Sam Weinberg
1944
as Wilson / Fritz Alden
1927
as Dimitri
1931
as Goldie Gorio
1934
as Dutch Barnes
1936
as George Lambert
1932
as Felix
1931
as Bradley Carlton
1931
as Price Baines
1931
as Don Arturo de Borgus
1930
as Jeff
1931
as Robert J. Clayton
1941
as Roger Phillips
1932
as Nicky
1926
as Don Rafael Brull
1934
as Harry
1931
as Ronnie Wales
1930
as Johnnie
1936
as Perry Mason
1935
as Paul Morra
1934
as Pierre Londais
1936
as Inspector Bill Davis
1934
as Robert Mitchell
1924
as Robert Delano
1929
as Paul Wallis
1929
as Morris Goldfish
1938
as Charles Blake
1932
as William Poster
1931
as Johnny Silk
1926
as Geoffrey Tempest
1932
as Bill Hanaway
1937
as Gordon Creed
1935
as Jim Sundean
1948
as John Norcross
1935
as Sim
1941
as Ricardo de Vega
1934
as Ellinger
1934
as Herman Brandt
1929
as Tom Armstrong
1937
as Ramon Escobar
1937
as J. Ward Thomas
1933
as Craig Cutting
1927
1934
as Tony Evans
1925
as Don Pedro de Barrego
1926
as Captain Sazarac
1925
as Dr. Walter, the Tutor
1924
as Tony Channing
1928
as Yoanes Etchegarry
1931
as Curly
1925
as Jack Weston
1928
as Val D'Errico
1934
as Himself
1960
as Self
1936
as Frank Kingman
1942
as Gilin
1936
as Self
1941
as Phillip Richards
1931
1923
as Ted Carter
1986
as Self as Don Rafael Brull (archive footage)
1935
as Dan Moore
1927
as Michael Angelo Cassidy
1937
as Self
1929
as Jim Morley
2003
as Self (archive footage)
1924
as Don Arturo
1942
as Anthony Pearce
1936
as Ray Allen
1923
as Larry Morrison
1924
as Whitney Duane
1929
as James Stanwood
1941
as Mark Saunders
1925
as Billy Ballard
1924
as Harrison Peters
1933
as Victor Conway
1924
as Juan Martin
1926
as Stéphane Séquineau
Production
1940
as Director
1940
as Director
1939
as Director
1939
as Director
1939
as Director
1939
as Director
1940
as Director
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