Ricardo Montalbn was a singer.
 Later in his career, Montalbn portrayed Armando in the Planet of the Apes film series from the early 1970s, starring in both Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
=== Stardom in Mexico ===Montalbn became a star in Mexico in Santa (1943), which was directed by a Hollywood expat, Norman Foster

