Ricardo Cortez

Acting

Ricardo Cortez

Born 1900-09-17 New York City, New York, USA 107 films

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 Valenti…

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Filmography

107 films
Bad Company poster

A psychotic and sadistic mob boss is infatuated with the young wife of his newlywed attorney, and h…

Bad Company

★ 5.0 1931

Transgression poster

When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife E…

Transgression

★ 4.3 1931

White Shoulders poster

In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then…

White Shoulders

★ 10.0 1931

Illicit poster

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, b…

Illicit

★ 5.6 1931

Her Man poster

A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.

Her Man

★ 5.2 1930