Ricardo Cortez
Birthday
1900/09/17
Day of death
1977/04/28 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Jacob Krantz, Jack Crane
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. Wh...Read more
Acting
(1942) Tomorrow We Live
as The Ghost, Alexander Caesar Martin
(1932) The Phantom of Crestwood
as Gary Curtis
(1936) The Walking Dead
as Nolan
(1939) Charlie Chan in Reno
as Dr. Ainsley
(1923) Hollywood
as Ricardo Cortez
(1931) White Shoulders
as Lawrence Marchmont
(1931) The Maltese Falcon
as Sam Spade
(1946) The Locket
as Drew Bonner
(1947) Blackmail
as Ziggy Cranston
(1950) Bunco Squad
as Tony Weldon / Anthony Wells
(1940) Murder Over New York
as George Kirby
(1925) In the Name of Love
as Raoul Melnotte
(1939) Mr. Moto's Last Warning
as Fabian
(1933) The House on 56th Street
as Bill Blaine
(1933) Midnight Mary
as Leo
(1933) Torch Singer
as Tony Cummings
(1946) The Inner Circle
as Duke York
(1935) Special Agent
as Alexander Carston
(1934) The Man with Two Faces
as Ben Weston
(1932) Thirteen Women
as Police Sergeant Barry Clive
(1958) The Last Hurrah
as Sam Weinberg
(1944) Make Your Own Bed
as Wilson / Fritz Alden
(1927) Mockery
as Dimitri
(1931) Bad Company
as Goldie Gorio
(1934) The Big Shakedown
as Dutch Barnes
(1932) Symphony of Six Million
as Felix
(1936) The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
as George Lambert
(1931) Ten Cents a Dance
as Bradley Carlton
(1931) Illicit
as Price Baines
(1931) Transgression
as Don Arturo de Borgus
(1930) Montana Moon
as Jeff
(1931) Big Business Girl
as Robert J. Clayton
(1941) I Killed That Man
as Roger Phillips
(1932) Flesh
as Nicky
(1926) Torrent
as Don Rafael Brull
(1934) Wonder Bar
as Harry
(1931) Behind Office Doors
as Ronnie Wales
(1930) Her Man
as Johnnie
(1936) The Case of the Black Cat
as Perry Mason
(1923) The Gentleman from America
as ---
(1935) Frisco Kid
as Paul Morra
(1934) I Am a Thief
as Pierre Londais
(1936) Postal Inspector
as Inspector Bill Davis
(1934) Hat, Coat and Glove
as Robert Mitchell
(1924) The Bedroom Window
as Robert Delano
(1929) The Phantom in the House
as Paul Wallis
(1929) The Younger Generation
as Morris Goldfish
(1938) City Girl
as Charles Blake
(1932) Is My Face Red?
as William Poster
(1931) Men of Chance
as Johnny Silk
(1926) The Sorrows of Satan
as Geoffrey Tempest
(1932) No One Man
as Bill Hanaway
(1937) West of Shanghai
as Gordon Creed
(1935) The White Cockatoo
as Jim Sundean
(1948) Mystery in Mexico
as John Norcross
(1935) Shadow of Doubt
as Sim
(1941) Romance of the Rio Grande
as Ricardo de Vega
(1934) A Lost Lady
as Ellinger
(1934) The Firebird
as Herman Brandt
(1929) The Lost Zeppelin
as Tom Armstrong
(1937) The Californian
as Ramon Escobar
(1937) Her Husband Lies
as J. Ward Thomas
(1933) Broadway Bad
as Craig Cutting
(1927) The Private Life of Helen of Troy
as Paris
(1934) Mandalay
as Tony Evans
(1925) The Spaniard
as Don Pedro de Barrego
(1926) The Eagle of the Sea
as Captain Sazarac
(1925) The Swan
as Dr. Walter, the Tutor
(1924) Feet of Clay
as Tony Channing
(1928) Woman of Destiny
as Yoanes Etchegarry
(1931) Reckless Living
as Curly
(1925) The Pony Express
as Jack Weston
(1928) Excess Baggage
as Val D'Errico
(1934) Hollywood Newsreel
as Himself
(1960) Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
(1936) Man Hunt
as Frank Kingman
(1942) Rubber Racketeers
as Gilin
(1936) Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
(1941) A Shot in the Dark
as Phillip Richards
(1931) Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
as Self
(1923) Children of Jazz
as Ted Carter
(1986) Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
as Self as Don Rafael Brull (archive footage)
(1935) Manhattan Moon
as Dan Moore
(1927) New York
as Michael Angelo Cassidy
(1937) Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
(1929) New Orleans
as Jim Morley
(2003) Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
(1924) The Next Corner
as Don Arturo
(1942) Who Is Hope Schuyler?
as Anthony Pearce
(1936) Talk of the Devil
as Ray Allen
(1936) Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
as ---
(1923) The Call of the Canyon
as Larry Morrison
(1926) The Cat's Pajamas
as ---
(1924) This Woman
as Whitney Duane
(1929) Midstream
as James Stanwood
(1941) World Premiere
as Mark Saunders
(1925) Not So Long Ago
as Billy Ballard
(1924) A Society Scandal
as Harrison Peters
(1933) Big Executive
as Victor Conway
(1924) Argentine Love
as Juan Martin
(1926) Volcano
as Stéphane Séquineau
(1952) This Is Your Life
as Self