Desi Arnaz
Born: 1917-03-02 in Santiago, Cuba
Died: 1986-12-02
Known For: Acting
Biography
Desi Arnaz (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) 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.
Filmography
2022
- Lucy and Desi as Self (archive footage)
2020
- My Darling Vivian as Self (archive footage)
2016
- I Love Lucy Christmas Special as Ricky
2011
- Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored as Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)
2005
- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Manuelito (segment "Too Many Girls") (archive footage)
2004
- Judy Garland: By Myself as Self (archive footage)
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years as (archive footage)
2000
- Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Television: The First Fifty Years as Ricky Ricardo (archive footage)
1993
- Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie as Self
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982
- The Escape Artist as Mayor Leon Quiñones
1976
- Alice
- Donny & Marie as Self
- Salsa as Self (archive footage)
- Joys as Self
- CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years as Self
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host & Musical Guest
- Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television as (archive footage)
1968
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
- Land's End as Guest Waiting to Cash Check
1967
- Ironside as Dr. Juan Domingo
- The Mothers-in-Law as Raphael Delgado
1966
- The Carol Channing Show ... (Producer)
1965
- Star Trek: The Cage ... (Executive Producer)
1963
- Surf Scene ... (Executive Producer)
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Virginian as El Jefe
- The Lucy Show ... (Producer)
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dragon by the Tail ... (Executive Producer)
1960
- Guestward, Ho! ... (Director)
- The Man in the Funny Suit as Self - Host
1959
- NBC Sunday Showcase as Ricky Ricardo
1958
- The Texan ... (Producer)
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- The Ann Sothern Show ... (Producer)
- The Fountain of Youth ... (Executive Producer)
- Strange Witness ... (Producer)
1957
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Ricky Ricardo
- The Walter Winchell File ... (Producer)
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Performer
- Forever, Darling as Lorenzo Xavier 'Larry' Vega
- U.S. Marshall ... (Producer's Assistant)
- Lucy's Really Lost Moments as Ricky Ricardo
- The Bob Hope Chevy Show as Fred Mertz
1954
- December Bride as Self
- The Long, Long Trailer as Nicky Collini
- A Star Is Born World Premiere as Self
1953
- I Love Lucy: The Movie as Ricky Ricardo
1952
- Cavalcade of America ... (Executive Producer)
1951
- I Love Lucy as Ricky Ricardo
- The Red Skelton Show as Self
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
1949
- The Emmy Awards as Self
- Holiday in Havana as Carlos Estrada
- The Ed Wynn Show as Self
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1946
- Cuban Pete as Desi Arnaz
- Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra as Self
1943
- Bataan as Felix Ramirez
1942
- The Navy Comes Through as Pat Tarriba
- Four Jacks and a Jill as Steve Sarto / King Stephan VIII of Aregal
1941
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
- Father Takes a Wife as Carlos Bardez
1940
- Too Many Girls as Manuelito Lynch