ricardo mantalban died

Actor Ricardo Mantalban, perhaps most famous for his role as Mr. Rourke on "Fantasy Island", died in his Beverly Hills home yesterday at the age of 88.  People magazine says…

His son-in-law Gilbert Smith says Montalban had been in declining health for months and died from "complications of advancing age.""He was in peace," said Smith, who said that the actor was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. "He will be missed," added Smith.While he enjoyed a long career in film, he became an icon both as the white-suited Roarke, the star of the high rated ABC drama, and as Kahn, Captain Kirk's nemesis in the 1982 film Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn. Younger audiences know him as Grandpa Cortez in the Spy Kids films.Montalban was proceeded in death by one year by his wife of 63 years, Gorgiana Young, the younger sister of his frequent co-star Loretta Young."[She is] the only love of my life," the actor said in 2004.

Well if he loved her as much as he loved the Chyrsler Cordoba, she was one lucky woman.  He talks about that thing like it was his secret lover.  And who can say, maybe it was, who knows what passions were burning in his fiery Latin heart!