Actor
Ricardo Cortez
September 17, 1900 · 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.
Often works with
Henry O'Neill
4 titles together
The Walking Dead, Wonder Bar, The Big Shakedown
Barbara Stanwyck
3 titles together
Illicit, Ten Cents a Dance, A Lost Lady
Joe King
2 titles together
The Walking Dead, Special Agent
Robert Strange
2 titles together
The Walking Dead, Special Agent
Joe Sawyer
2 titles together
The Walking Dead, Special Agent
Edward Gargan
2 titles together
The Walking Dead, The Inner Circle
Full filmography · 105
The Last Hurrah
as Sam Weinberg
19587.2
Bunco Squad
as Tony Weldon / Anthony Wells
1950
Mystery in Mexico
as John Norcross
1948
Blackmail
as Ziggy Cranston
1947
The Locket
as Drew Bonner
19466.3
The Inner Circle
as Duke York
1946
Make Your Own Bed
as Wilson / Fritz Alden
1944
Tomorrow We Live
as The Ghost, Alexander Caesar Martin
1942
Rubber Racketeers
as Gilin
1942
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
as Anthony Pearce
1942
I Killed That Man
as Roger Phillips
1941
World Premiere
as Mark Saunders
1941