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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 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).

Release Date	Title	Character Name	Rating
June 11th, 2014	Stars of the Silver Screen - Greta Garbo	Self (archive footage)	3
May 6th, 2003	Complicated Women	Self (archive footage)	6.9
January 1st, 1986	Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown	Self as Don Rafael Brull (archive footage)	8
January 10th, 1960	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood	Self	6
December 31st, 1958	The Last Hurrah	Sam Weinberg	7.2
September 1st, 1950	Bunco Squad	Tony Weldon / Anthony Wells	6.1
August 21st, 1948	Mystery in Mexico	John Norcross	6
July 24th, 1947	Blackmail	Ziggy Cranston	4.2
December 20th, 1946	The Locket	Drew Bonner	6.4
August 7th, 1946	The Inner Circle	Duke York	5.6
June 10th, 1944	Make Your Own Bed	Wilson / Fritz Alden	6
September 23rd, 1942	Tomorrow We Live	The Ghost, Alexander Caesar Martin	4.9
June 26th, 1942	Rubber Racketeers	Gilin	5.5
April 17th, 1942	Who Is Hope Schuyler?	Anthony Pearce	4.5
November 28th, 1941	I Killed That Man	Roger Phillips	6.7
August 21st, 1941	World Premiere	Mark Saunders	6
April 5th, 1941	A Shot in the Dark	Phillip Richards	5.7
January 17th, 1941	Romance of the Rio Grande	Ricardo de Vega	4.7
December 13th, 1940	Murder Over New York	George Kirby	6.2
June 16th, 1939	Charlie Chan in Reno	Dr. Ainsley	6.5
January 20th, 1939	Mr. Moto's Last Warning	Fabian	5.7
January 7th, 1938	City Girl	Charles Blake	6.5
December 31st, 1937	Breakdowns of 1937	Self	6
October 30th, 1937	West of Shanghai	Gordon Creed	5.8
July 18th, 1937	The Californian	Ramon Escobar	7
March 13th, 1937	Her Husband Lies	J. Ward Thomas	7
December 30th, 1936	Breakdowns of 1936	Self	TBD
December 9th, 1936	Talk of the Devil	Ray Allen	8
October 31st, 1936	The Case of the Black Cat	Perry Mason	7
August 16th, 1936	Postal Inspector	Inspector Bill Davis	7
February 29th, 1936	The Walking Dead	Nolan	6.3
January 29th, 1936	Man Hunt	Frank Kingman	10
January 11th, 1936	The Murder of Dr. Harrigan	George Lambert	5.8
January 11th, 1936	Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs	TBD	4.5
November 30th, 1935	Frisco Kid	Paul Morra	7.1
September 14th, 1935	Special Agent	Alexander Carston	6.3
July 1st, 1935	Manhattan Moon	Dan Moore	9
February 15th, 1935	Shadow of Doubt	Sim	6.6
January 29th, 1935	The White Cockatoo	Jim Sundean	5.9
November 24th, 1934	I Am a Thief	Pierre Londais	6.2
November 3rd, 1934	The Firebird	Herman Brandt	6.4
September 29th, 1934	A Lost Lady	Ellinger	5.8
August 4th, 1934	The Man with Two Faces	Ben Weston	6.4
July 26th, 1934	Hat, Coat and Glove	Robert Mitchell	7
March 31st, 1934	Wonder Bar	Harry	6
March 24th, 1934	Hollywood Newsreel	Himself	7
February 10th, 1934	Mandalay	Tony Evans	5.8
January 6th, 1934	The Big Shakedown	Dutch Barnes	5.9
December 23rd, 1933	The House on 56th Street	Bill Blaine	5.3
October 19th, 1933	Big Executive	Victor Conway	7
September 8th, 1933	Torch Singer	Tony Cummings	5.4
June 30th, 1933	Midnight Mary	Leo	6.9
February 24th, 1933	Broadway Bad	Craig Cutting	5.3
December 8th, 1932	Flesh	Nicky	5.8
October 14th, 1932	The Phantom of Crestwood	Gary Curtis	6
September 16th, 1932	Thirteen Women	Police Sergeant Barry Clive	6.4
June 17th, 1932	Is My Face Red?	William Poster	5
April 29th, 1932	Symphony of Six Million	Felix	5.7
January 22nd, 1932	No One Man	Bill Hanaway	6.5
December 26th, 1931	Men of Chance	Johnny Silk	6
October 20th, 1931	Reckless Living	Curly	4.3
October 16th, 1931	Bad Company	Goldie Gorio	5
June 27th, 1931	Transgression	Don Arturo de Borgus	4.3
June 12th, 1931	Big Business Girl	Robert J. Clayton	6.8
June 1st, 1931	Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)	Self	6
May 23rd, 1931	The Maltese Falcon	Sam Spade	6.4
May 17th, 1931	White Shoulders	Lawrence Marchmont	10
March 15th, 1931	Behind Office Doors	Ronnie Wales	4.9
February 14th, 1931	Illicit	Price Baines	5.7
January 30th, 1931	Ten Cents a Dance	Bradley Carlton	6.8
September 21st, 1930	Her Man	Johnnie	5.2
March 20th, 1930	Montana Moon	Jeff	4.7
December 19th, 1929	The Lost Zeppelin	Tom Armstrong	5.8
October 20th, 1929	The Phantom in the House	Paul Wallis	4.4
July 29th, 1929	Midstream	James Stanwood	10
June 1st, 1929	New Orleans	Jim Morley	9
March 4th, 1929	The Younger Generation	Morris Goldfish	6.9
September 28th, 1928	Excess Baggage	Val D'Errico	8
June 20th, 1928	Prowlers of the Sea	Carlos De Neve	7
May 15th, 1928	Ladies of the Night Club	George Merrill	10
April 29th, 1928	Woman of Destiny	Yoanes Etchegarry	10
December 9th, 1927	The Private Life of Helen of Troy	Paris	4.4
September 15th, 1927	By Whose Hand?	Agent X-9	9
August 13th, 1927	Mockery	Dimitri	6.9
January 30th, 1927	New York	Michael Angelo Cassidy	9
October 17th, 1926	The Eagle of the Sea	Captain Sazarac	10
October 12th, 1926	The Sorrows of Satan	Geoffrey Tempest	7.2
August 29th, 1926	The Cat's Pajamas	TBD	9
May 23rd, 1926	Volcano	Stéphane Séquineau	10
February 21st, 1926	Torrent	Don Rafael Brull	6.7
September 7th, 1925	Not So Long Ago	Billy Ballard	8
September 3rd, 1925	The Pony Express	Jack Weston	6.4
August 10th, 1925	In the Name of Love	Raoul Melnotte	10
May 4th, 1925	The Spaniard	Don Pedro de Barrego	8
February 16th, 1925	The Swan	Dr. Walter, the Tutor	8
December 22nd, 1924	Argentine Love	Juan Martin	10
November 2nd, 1924	This Woman	Whitney Duane	9
September 29th, 1924	The City That Never Sleeps	Mark Roth	9
September 27th, 1924	Feet of Clay	Tony Channing	7
June 8th, 1924	The Bedroom Window	Robert Delano	9
March 9th, 1924	A Society Scandal	Harrison Peters	8
February 18th, 1924	The Next Corner	Don Arturo	10
December 16th, 1923	The Call of the Canyon	Larry Morrison	7
August 19th, 1923	Hollywood	Ricardo Cortez	9
July 8th, 1923	Children of Jazz	Ted Carter	8
May 13th, 1923	Sixty Cents an Hour	William Davis	10
February 19th, 1923	The Gentleman from America	TBD	7

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