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Birthday
September 17, 1900
Day of Death
1977-04-28
(76 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Jacob Krantz
Jack Crane
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.
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Men of Chance
as Johnny Silk
Reckless Living
as Curly
Bad Company
as Goldie Gorio
Transgression
as Don Arturo de Borgus
Big Business Girl
as Robert J. Clayton
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
as Self
The Maltese Falcon
as Sam Spade
White Shoulders
as Lawrence Marchmont
Behind Office Doors
as Ronnie Wales
Illicit
as Price Baines
Ten Cents a Dance
as Bradley Carlton
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