Desi Arnaz

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Acting

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

• A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music (2025)
• Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025)
• Lucy and Desi (2022)
• My Darling Vivian (2020)
• I Love Lucy Christmas Special (2016)
• Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored (2011)
• Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
• Judy Garland: By Myself (2004)
• TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
• Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy (2000)
• Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)
• The Funny World of Lucy, Volume 1 (1997)
• Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993)
• Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
• The Escape Artist (1982)
• CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years (1976)
• Salsa (1976)
• Joys (1976)
• Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television (1975)
• Star Trek: The Cage (1965)
• Surf Scene (1963)
• Dragon by the Tail (1961)
• Alcatraz Express (1961)
• The Man in the Funny Suit (1960)
• The Gun of Zangara (1960)
• The Fountain of Youth (1958)
• Strange Witness (1958)
• The Bob Hope Chevy Show (1956)
• Forever, Darling (1956)
• Lucy's Really Lost Moments (1956)
• A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
• The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
• I Love Lucy: The Movie (1953)
• Holiday in Havana (1949)
• Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra (1946)
• Cuban Pete (1946)
• Bataan (1943)
• The Navy Comes Through (1942)
• Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)
• Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2 (1941)
• Father Takes a Wife (1941)
• Too Many Girls (1940)
• The Time Element
• The Lucy-Desi Milton Berle Special
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Bernadette Episode