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Ricardo Cortez was an American film actor and director. He was also credited as Jack Crane early in his acting career.
Birth Name
Jacob Krantz
Born
Wednesday, 19 September 1900
Died
Thursday, 28 April 1977
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Garbo | Self | 2005 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| American Masters | (archive footage) | 1986 |
| Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown | Himself / Self as Don Rafael Brull | 1985 |
| Hollywood | Self | 1980 |
| Bonanza | Don Xavier Losaro | 1959 |
| The Last Hurrah | Sam Weinberg | 1958 |
| The Jack Carson Show | Self | 1954 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
| All Star Revue | Self - Guest Actor | 1950 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Garbo | Self | 2005 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| American Masters | (archive footage) | 1986 |
| Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown | Himself / Self as Don Rafael Brull | 1985 |
| Hollywood | Self | 1980 |
| Bonanza | Don Xavier Losaro | 1959 |
| The Last Hurrah | Sam Weinberg | 1958 |
| The Jack Carson Show | Self | 1954 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
| All Star Revue | Self - Guest Actor | 1950 |
| Bunco Squad | Tony Weldon - aka Anthony Wells / Tony Weldon / Anthony Wells | 1950 |
| Mystery in Mexico | John Norcross | 1948 |
| Blackmail | Ziggy Cranston | 1947 |
| The Locket | Andrew 'Drew' Bonner / Drew Bonner | 1946 |
| The Inner Circle | Duke York | 1946 |
| Make Your Own Bed | Fritz Alden / Wilson | 1944 |
| Tomorrow We Live | The Ghost, Alexander Caesar Martin / The Ghost - Alexander Caesar Martin | 1942 |
| Rubber Racketeers | Gilin | 1942 |
| Who Is Hope Schuyler? | Anthony Pearce | 1942 |
| I Killed That Man | Roger Phillips | 1941 |
| World Premiere | Mark Saunders | 1941 |
| A Shot in the Dark | Philip Richards / Phillip Richards | 1941 |
| Romance of the Rio Grande | Ricardo de Vega | 1940 |
| Murder Over New York | George Kirby | 1940 |
| Charlie Chan in Reno | Dr. Ainsley | 1939 |
| Mr. Moto's Last Warning | Fabian / Fabian the Great | 1939 |
| City Girl | Charles Blake | 1938 |
| West of Shanghai | Gordon Creed | 1937 |
| The Californian | Ramon Escobar | 1937 |
| Her Husband Lies | J. Ward Thomas (Spade Martin) / J. Ward Thomas | 1937 |
| Breakdowns of 1937 | Himself / Self | 1937 |
| Breakdowns of 1936 | Himself / Self | 1936 |
| Talk of the Devil | Ray Allen | 1936 |
| The Case of the Black Cat | Perry Mason | 1936 |
| Postal Inspector | Inspector Bill Davis | 1936 |
| Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs | Self | 1936 |
| The Walking Dead | Nolan | 1936 |
| Man Hunt | Frank Kingman | 1936 |
| The Murder of Dr. Harrigan | George Lambert | 1936 |
| Frisco Kid | Paul Morra | 1935 |
| Special Agent | Alexander Carston | 1935 |
| Manhattan Moon | Dan Moore | 1935 |
| Shadow of Doubt | Sim Sturdevant / Sim | 1935 |
| The White Cockatoo | Jim Sundean | 1935 |
| I Am a Thief | Pierre Londais | 1934 |
| The Firebird | Herman Brandt | 1934 |
| A Lost Lady | Ellinger | 1934 |
| The Man with Two Faces | Ben Weston | 1934 |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove | Robert Mitchell | 1934 |
| Hollywood Newsreel | Himself / Self | 1934 |
| Wonder Bar | Harry | 1934 |
| Mandalay | Tony Evans | 1934 |
| The Big Shakedown | Dutch Barnes | 1934 |
| The House on 56th Street | Bill Blaine | 1933 |
| Big Executive | Victor Conway | 1933 |
| Torch Singer | Tony Cummings | 1933 |
| Midnight Mary | Leo Darcy / Leo | 1933 |
| Broadway Bad | Craig Cutting | 1933 |
| Flesh | Nicky Grant / Nicky | 1932 |
| The Phantom of Crestwood | Gary Curtis | 1932 |
| Thirteen Women | Police Sergeant Barry Clive | 1932 |
| Is My Face Red? | William Poster | 1932 |
| Symphony of Six Million | Dr. Felix 'Felixel' Klauber / Felix | 1932 |
| No One Man | Bill Hanaway | 1932 |
| Men of Chance | Johnny Silk | 1932 |
| Bad Company | Goldie Gorio | 1931 |
| Transgression | Don Arturo de Borgus | 1931 |
| The Maltese Falcon | Sam Spade | 1931 |
| Big Business Girl | Robert J. Clayton | 1931 |
| White Shoulders | Lawrence Marchmont | 1931 |
| Behind Office Doors | Ronnie Wales | 1931 |
| Ten Cents a Dance | Bradley Carlton | 1931 |
| Illicit | Price Baines | 1931 |
| Her Man | Johnnie | 1930 |
| Montana Moon | Jeff / Jeff Pelham | 1930 |
| The Lost Zeppelin | Tom Armstrong | 1929 |
| The Phantom in the House | Paul Wallis | 1929 |
| Midstream | James Stanwood | 1929 |
| The Younger Generation | Morris Goldfish | 1929 |
| Excess Baggage | Val D'Errico | 1928 |
| The Grain of Dust | Fred Norman | 1928 |
| Prowlers of the Sea | Carlos De Neve | 1928 |
| Ladies of the Night Club | George Merrill | 1928 |
| Woman of Destiny | Yoanes Etchegarry dit Jean Barliave / Yoanes Etchegarry | 1928 |
| The Private Life of Helen of Troy | Paris | 1927 |
| Mockery | Captain Dimitri / Dimitri | 1927 |
| New York | Michael Angelo Cassidy | 1927 |
| The Eagle of the Sea | Capt. Sazarac / Captain Sazarac | 1926 |
| The Sorrows of Satan | Geoffrey Tempest | 1926 |
| The Cat's Pajamas | Don Cesare Gracco | 1926 |
| Volcano | Stéphane Séquineau | 1926 |
| Torrent | Don Rafael Brull | 1926 |
| The Pony Express | Jack Weston | 1925 |
| Not So Long Ago | Billy Ballard | 1925 |
| The Swan | Dr. Walter, the Tutor | 1925 |
| The Spaniard | Don Pedro de Barrego | 1925 |
| Argentine Love | Juan Martin | 1924 |
| This Woman | Whitney Duane | 1924 |
| The City That Never Sleeps | Mark Roth | 1924 |
| Feet of Clay | Tony Channing | 1924 |
| The Bedroom Window | Robert Delano | 1924 |
| A Society Scandal | Harrison Peters | 1924 |
| The Call of the Canyon | Larry Morrison | 1923 |
| Hollywood | Ricardo Cortez | 1923 |
| Children of Jazz | Ted Carter | 1923 |
| Sixty Cents an Hour | William Davis | 1923 |
| The Gentleman from America | Minor Role | 1923 |
| The Fringe of Society | (scenes deleted) | 1917 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Girl in 313 | 1940 |
| Free, Blonde and 21 | 1940 |
| City of Chance | 1940 |
| Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence | 1939 |
| The Escape | 1939 |
| Chasing Danger | 1939 |
| Inside Story | 1939 |
