Ricardo Cortez

Hollywood Stars : Jacob Krantz

Born Name: Jacob Krantz Birthday: 1900-09-19 (Year-Month-Day) Website: Spouse(s): Alma Rubens (1926–1931) Children: Medium: Actor

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 (Vienna is often incorrectly cited as his place of birth) into a Jewish family, he worked on Wall Street in a brokers 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 RГ­o) 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 Yorks 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).[edit] Partial filmographyThe Gentleman from America (1923) (uncredited)The Call of the Canyon (1923)Feet of Clay (1924)The City That Never Sleeps (1924)Torrent (1926)The Sorrows of Satan (1926)The Eagle of the Sea (1926)Mockery (1927)The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)Montana Moon (1930)Ten Cents a Dance (1931)The Maltese Falcon (1931)Bad Company (1931)Thirteen Women (1932)The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)Flesh (1932)Midnight Mary (1933)Torch Singer (1933)The House on 56th Street (1933)The Big Shakedown (1934)Mandalay (1934)Wonder Bar (1934)A Lost Lady (1934)Special Agent (1935)Frisco Kid (1935)The Walking Dead (1936)The Case of the Black Cat (1936)Mr. Motos Last Warning (1939)I Killed That Man (1941)Tomorrow We Live (1942)The Locket (1946)The Last Hurrah (1958)[edit] References^ Obituary Variety, May 4, 1977.^ a b Letter of the Departement of Health, City of New York, 8. Oktober 2000. mentioned in: Rudolf Ulrich (Hrsg.): Г–sterreicher in Hollywood. Neuauflage, Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Wien 2004, ISBN 3901932291, p. 5973. Birth Certificate from Ancestry.com: Jake Krantz 19 Sep 1900 13602 Births Reported in 1901. Borough of Manhattan.[edit] External linksBiography portalRicardo Cortez at the Internet Movie DatabaseRicardo Cortez at Find a Grave“Hollywood Unmasked: Latin Lover is Kosher Butcher’s Son,” Robert J. Avrech, BigHollywood.com, July 14, 2009.PersondataNameCortez, RicardoAlternative namesKrantz, JacobShort descriptionActorDate of birthSeptember 19, 1899Place of birthNew York City, New York, U.S.Date of deathApril 28, 1977Place of deathNew York City, New York, U.S.Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_CortezCategories: American film actors | American silent film actors | American people of Austrian-Jewish descent | Jewish actors | People from Vienna | Stock and commodity market managers | Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (The Bronx) | 1899 births | 1977 deathsHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschEspaГ±olFranГ§aisItalianoSvenska This page was last modified on 18 February 2011 at 13:49.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersif ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.config.set({wgCanonicalNamespace: , wgCanonicalSpecialPageName: false, wgNamespaceNumber: 0, wgPageName: Ricardo_Cortez, wgTitle: Ricardo Cortez, wgAction: view, wgArticleId: 2711594, wgIsArticle: true, wgUserName: null, wgUserGroups: [*], wgCurRevisionId: 414616675, wgCategories: [Infobox person using deprecated parameters, Articles with hCards, American film actors, American silent film actors, American people of Austrian-Jewish descent, Jewish actors, People from Vienna, Stock and commodity market managers, Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (The Bronx), 1899 births, 1977 deaths], wgBreakFrames: false, wgRestrictionEdit: [], wgRestrictionMove: [], wgSearchNamespaces: [0], wgFlaggedRevsParams: {tags: {status: {levels: 1, quality: 2, pristine: 3}}}, wgStableRevisionId: null, wgRevContents: {error: Unable to get content., waiting: Waiting for content}, wgWikimediaMobileUrl: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki, wgCollapsibleNavBucketTest: false, wgCollapsibleNavForceNewVersion: false, wgArticleAssessmentJUIPath: http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/UsabilityInitiative/js/js2stopgap/jui.combined.min.js, Geo: {city: , country: }, wgNoticeProject: wikipedia});}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.loader.load([mediawiki.legacy.wikibits, mediawiki.util, mediawiki.legacy.ajax, mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest, ext.vector.collapsibleNav, ext.vector.collapsibleTabs, ext.vector.editWarning, ext.vector.simpleSearch]);mediaWiki.loader.go();}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.user.options.set({ccmeonemails:0,cols:80,contextchars:50,contextlines:5,date:default,diffonly:0,disablemail:0,disablesuggest:0,editfont:default,editondblclick:0,editsection:1,editsectiononrightclick:0,enotifminoredits:0,enotifrevealaddr:0,enotifusertalkpages:1,enotifwatchlistpages:0,extendwatchlist:0,externaldiff:0,externaleditor:0,fancysig:0,forceeditsummary:0,gender:unknown,hideminor:0,hidepatrolled:0,highlightbroken:1,imagesize:2,justify:0,math:1,minordefault:0,newpageshidepatrolled:0,nocache:0,noconvertlink:0,norollbackdiff:0,numberheadings:0,previewonfirst:0,previewontop:1,quickbar:1,rcdays:7,rclimit:50,rememberpassword:0,rows:25,searchlimit:20,showhiddencats:0,showjumplinks:1,shownumberswatching:1,showtoc:1,showtoolbar:1,skin:vector,stubthreshold:0,thumbsize:4,underline:2,uselivepreview:0,usenewrc:0,watchcreations:1,watchdefault:0,watchdeletion:0,watchlistdays:3,watchlisthideanons:0,watchlisthidebots:0,watchlisthideliu:0,watchlisthideminor:0,watchlisthideown:0,watchlisthidepatrolled:0,watchmoves:0,wllimit:250,flaggedrevssimpleui:1,flaggedrevsstable:false,flaggedrevseditdiffs:true,flaggedrevsviewdiffs:false,vector-simplesearch:1,useeditwarning:1,vector-collapsiblenav:1,usebetatoolbar:1,usebetatoolbar-cgd:1,variant:en,language:en,searchNs0:true,searchNs1:false,searchNs2:false,searchNs3:false,searchNs4:false,searchNs5:false,searchNs6:false,searchNs7:false,searchNs8:false,searchNs9:false,searchNs10:false,searchNs11:false,searchNs12:false,searchNs13:false,searchNs14:false,searchNs15:false,searchNs100:false,searchNs101:false,searchNs108:false,searchNs109:false});mediaWiki.loader.state({user.options:ready});/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-js:2:ae2156c08a06314b12473d37e57711e2 */} if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha();