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Desi Arnaz Jr. is a Actor American born on 19 january 1953 at Los Angeles (USA)

Desi Arnaz Jr.

Desi Arnaz Jr.
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Birth name Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV
Nationality USA
Birth 19 january 1953 (71 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Desi Arnaz Jr. (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV; January 19, 1953) is an American actor and musician, the son of entertainers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and the brother of actress Lucie Arnaz.

Biography

Arnaz has a daughter, Julia Arnaz, from an undisclosed relationship.

At 17 he was dating actress Patty Duke, who was 23 at the time. The relationship became tabloid news and his mother did not approve of them together. After they broke up, writer and music producer Michael Tell offered to marry Duke as a way out of the scandal. Their marriage lasted only 13 days, and when Duke became pregnant, she would later tell her son, Sean Astin, that Arnaz was his biological father. Arnaz and Astin developed a close relationship, and although genetic tests later revealed Tell to be Astin's actual biological father, Astin remains close with Arnaz and Tell, as well as the father who raised him, John Astin, and his mother's third husband, Mike Pearce, saying, "I can call any of them on the phone any time I want to," says Sean. "John, Desi, Mike or Papa Mike...my four dads."

Arnaz was married to actress Linda Purl from 1980 until their divorce in 1981. On October 8, 1987, Arnaz married Amy Laura Bargiel. They lived in Boulder City, Nevada with their daughter, and own the Boulder Theatre, a cinema converted into a theatre and home to the Boulder City Ballet Company.

Desi's wife Amy died January 23, 2015, at the age of 63 from a long battle with cancer.
Desi Arnaz Jr.'s Facebook page, operated by close family friend Jaime Vermeulen, helped carry the announcement to the fans by the Arnaz family.

Usually with

Nick Dimitri
Nick Dimitri
(2 films)
Robert Altman
Robert Altman
(1 films)
George Dee
George Dee
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Desi Arnaz Jr. (12 films)

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Actor

The Mambo Kings, 1h43
Directed by Arne Glimcher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Scott Cohen, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Roles Desi Arnaz Sr.
Rating63% 3.1978353.1978353.1978353.1978353.197835
In the early 1950s, Cuban brothers and musicians Cesar (Armand Assante) and Nestor Castillo (Antonio Banderas) flee from Havana, Cuba after getting into a violent dispute with the mobster owners of a club where they performed. Eventually ending up in New York City, the brothers work at menial jobs while attempting to revive their musical careers. At a nightclub where Cesar briefly crashes the act of mambo star Tito Puente, they make new friends and connections, as well as meeting cigarette girl Lanna Lake (Cathy Moriarty), who falls quickly into a love affair with Cesar.
House of the Long Shadows, 1h40
Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Julie Peasgood
Roles Kenneth Magee
Rating62% 3.1006553.1006553.1006553.1006553.100655
Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz, Jr.), a young writer, bets $20,000 that he can write a Wuthering Heights-calibre novel in 24 hours. To get in the mood for the undertaking, he goes to a deserted Welsh manor. Upon his arrival, however, Magee discovers that the manor is not as empty as he was told. Still there are Lord Grisbane (Carradine) and his daughter, Victoria (Sheila Keith), who have been maintaining the mansion on their own. As the stormy night progresses, more people come to the mansion, including Lord Grisbane's sons Lionel (Price) and Sebastian (Cushing), Magee's publisher's secretary, Mary Norton (Julie Peasgood), and Corrigan (Lee), a potential buyer of the property.
The Night the Bridge Fell Down, 3h
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors James MacArthur, Desi Arnaz Jr., Leslie Nielsen, Richard Gilliland, Eve Plumb, Barbara Rush
Roles Johnny Pyle
Rating54% 2.724432.724432.724432.724432.72443
Engineer Cal Miller's unauthorized attempt to close off the dangerously unstable Madison Bridge is foiled by the police pursuit of a robbery suspect. The chase ends in a multi-car accident in the middle of the bridge, which begins falling apart during the confusion. Miller organizes a rescue operation for the handful of bystanders who find themselves stranded with the armed suspect and a wounded policeman on a short stretch of crumbling pavement high atop a single collapsing pylon.
Crisis in Mid-Air
Directed by Walter Grauman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors George Peppard, Desi Arnaz Jr., Michael Constantine, Dana Elcar, Martin Milner, Greg Morris
Roles Tim Donovan
Rating64% 3.2214853.2214853.2214853.2214853.221485
The film starts with Nick Galver having a nightmare: a military pilot intentionally switching off his transponder signal is intruding into the airspace of civilian flights Nick is controlling, causing an air collision. He wakes up terrified and his wife Betsy advises him to see a doctor, and to find a less stressful job.
A Wedding
A Wedding (1978)
, 2h5
Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Desi Arnaz Jr., Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin, Howard Duff, Vittorio Gassman, Mia Farrow
Roles Dino Corelli
Rating69% 3.4947853.4947853.4947853.4947853.494785
Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) marries Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker) in a lavish Episcopalian church wedding presided over by a doddering, forgetful bishop. After the ceremony, the wedding party and guests drive back to the Corelli mansion for the reception. Meanwhile, the elderly, bedridden matriarch Nettie Sloan (Lillian Gish), mother of Regina Sloan Corelli (Nina Van Pallandt) and grandmother of the groom Dino, is being tended in her upstairs bedroom at the mansion by drunk, lecherous Dr. Jules Meecham (Howard Duff). Nettie is lying in her bed speaking with wedding planner Rita Billingsley (Geraldine Chaplin) when Nettie suddenly dies peacefully. Dr. Meecham informs Dino's father and head of household Luigi Corelli (Vittorio Gassman) of Nettie's death, but leaves it to him to tell his wife Regina, which Luigi is unable to do because Regina is high on drugs and mentally unstable. Nettie's corpse remains lying in bed, appearing to be asleep, throughout the reception, while various attendees are quietly told about her death or in some cases visit her in her room without realizing she's actually dead. By the time her bossy daughter Toni (Dina Merrill) finds out and calls a family meeting to make a dramatic announcement, the other family members are mostly not surprised or even too upset.
Joyride
Joyride (1977)
, 1h32
Directed by Joseph Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Desi Arnaz Jr., Robert Carradine, Melanie Griffith, Anne Lockhart, Ted D'Arms, Richard Riehle
Roles Scott
Rating55% 2.757322.757322.757322.757322.75732
Scott (Desi Arnaz, Jr.) and the couple John (Robert Carradine) and Suzie (Melanie Griffith) leave their jobs in California, and take their car on a ferry to Alaska with some saved money and dreams of making an easy fortune salmon fishing. Upon arriving, they enter a bar and the two men start slamming local hooch until they get drunk. Suzie meets an older man working for the oil pipeline who says he can get all three of them a job. The older man gives Suzie his card while Scott and John sleep off their drunkenness. The next morning, they find their car has been broken into and robbed. Desperate for money, the two men land pipeline jobs with the older man's help, Suzy gets a waitressing job. They walk out of a food market with a shopping cart of unpaid-for meat while it is being robbed.
Billy Two Hats, 1h39
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gregory Peck, Jack Warden, David Huddleston, Desi Arnaz Jr., John Pearce, Vic Armstrong
Roles Billy Two Hats
Rating62% 3.1438853.1438853.1438853.1438853.143885
Following a bank robbery in the American west, the partner of Scottish outlaw Arch Deans is killed and his young Indian half breed friend Billy Two Hats is captured.
Red Sky at Morning, 1h52
Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Desi Arnaz Jr., Richard Crenna, Claire Bloom, Harry Guardino
Roles William 'Steenie' Stenopolous
Rating69% 3.486273.486273.486273.486273.48627
Murderers' Row, 1h45
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Comic science fiction
Themes Spy films, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory, Beverly Adams
Roles Self
Rating58% 2.901022.901022.901022.901022.90102
The film begins with a shot of the United States Capitol being destroyed. It is actually a scale model being used in the demonstration of a heliobeam weapon in the headquarters of the Bureau of International Government and Order ("BIG O"). BIG O is a secret organisation with the goal of world domination that previously appeared in The Silencers.
Murderers' Row, 1h45
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Dean Martin, Karl Malden, Ann-Margret, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory, Camilla Sparv
Roles Self
Rating58% 2.901022.901022.901022.901022.90102
L'agent secret et séducteur Matt Helm simule sa mort afin de tromper la vigilance du Docteur Solaris, un savant dont l'invention pourrait détruire le monde. Ce dernier a été enlevé par une organisatioh criminelle. Son enquête conduit Helm sur la Côté D'Azur...