Desi Arnaz

Born: 1917-03-02, Santiago, Cuba

Died: 1986-12-02

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

• Ironside (1967)
• I Love Lucy (1951)
• The Virginian (1962)
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958)
• Cavalcade of America (1952)
• E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
• The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
• Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
• Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
• The Escape Artist (1982)
• TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
• Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored (2011)
• Bataan (1943)
• The Time Element
• Forever, Darling (1956)
• Too Many Girls (1940)
• I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953)
• The Navy Comes Through (1942)
• Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941)
• Lucy's Really Lost Moments (1956)
• Lucy's Really Lost Moments (1956)
• Father Takes a Wife (1941)
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Bernadette Episode
• Holiday in Havana (1949)
• The Lucy-Desi Milton Berle Special
• Cuban Pete (1946)
• The Bob Hope Chevy Show (1956)
• I Love Lucy Christmas Special (2016)
• The Funny World of Lucy, Volume 1 (1997)