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Desi Arnaz

Desi Arnaz

Desi Arnaz

1917-03-02

Santiago, Cuba

ACTING

Biography

Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer. While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy, starring with then-wife Lucille Ball.

Best known for:

I Love Lucy

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

E! True Hollywood Story

Ironside

Alice

The Long, Long Trailer

The Lucy Show

Lucy and Desi

Bataan

The Virginian

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

What's My Line?

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Escape Artist

The Red Skelton Show

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Fountain of Youth

Tony Awards

Too Many Girls

The Navy Comes Through

The Emmy Awards

Forever, Darling

The Mike Douglas Show

My Darling Vivian

I Love Lucy: The Movie

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Filmography:

Too Many Girls (1940)
APPEREAD AS:
Manuelito Lynch
Father Takes a Wife (1941)
APPEREAD AS:
Carlos Bardez
The Navy Comes Through (1942)
APPEREAD AS:
Pat Tarriba
Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
APPEREAD AS:
Steve Sarto / King Stephan VIII of Aregal
Bataan (1943)
APPEREAD AS:
Felix Ramirez
Cuban Pete (1946)
APPEREAD AS:
Desi Arnaz
Holiday in Havana (1949)
APPEREAD AS:
Carlos Estrada
I Love Lucy (1951)
6.7
APPEREAD AS:
Ricky Ricardo
WORK AS:
Producer

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Cavalcade of America (1952)
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953)
APPEREAD AS:
Ricky Ricardo
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
5.5
APPEREAD AS:
Nicky Collini
Forever, Darling (1956)
APPEREAD AS:
Lorenzo Xavier 'Larry' Vega
U.S. Marshall (1956)
WORK AS:
Producer's Assistant
Lucy's Really Lost Moments (1956)
APPEREAD AS:
Ricky Ricardo
WORK AS:
Producer, Director, Writer
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (1957)
APPEREAD AS:
Ricky Ricardo
WORK AS:
Director, Producer, Executive Producer
The Walter Winchell File (1957)
WORK AS:
Producer

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The Ann Sothern Show (1958)
WORK AS:
Producer
The Texan (1958)
WORK AS:
Producer
The Fountain of Youth (1958)
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
Strange Witness (1958)
WORK AS:
Producer
Guestward, Ho! (1960)
WORK AS:
Director
Dragon by the Tail (1961)
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
The Lucy Show (1962)
5.7
WORK AS:
Director, Producer
The Virginian (1962)
APPEREAD AS:
El Jefe
Surf Scene (1963)
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
Star Trek: The Cage (1965)
WORK AS:
Executive Producer
Ironside (1967)
5.5
APPEREAD AS:
Dr. Juan Domingo
The Mothers-in-Law (1967)
APPEREAD AS:
Raphael Delgado
WORK AS:
Director, Executive Producer
The Escape Artist (1982)
APPEREAD AS:
Mayor Leon Quiñones
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
APPEREAD AS:
(archive footage)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
APPEREAD AS:
Manuelito (segment "Too Many Girls") (archive footage)
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored (2011)
APPEREAD AS:
Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)
I Love Lucy Christmas Special (2016)
APPEREAD AS:
Ricky