Desi Arnaz
Known for: Acting
Born: March 2, 1917
Died: December 2, 1986
Place of birth: Santiago, Cuba
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.
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Filmography
45 movies · 33 TV shows, newest first
5.0
A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music
2025
7.7
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
7.0
Lucy and Desi
2022
7.1
My Darling Vivian
2020
10.0
I Love Lucy Christmas Special
2016
2.0
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
2011
7.2
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
8.3
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
5.3
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
20047.0
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000NR
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
8.5
The Funny World of Lucy, Volume 1
1997
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.2
Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie
1993
7.0
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
6.2
The Escape Artist
1982
7.3
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
1976
7.0
Alice
1976
10.0
Salsa
1976
6.0
Joys
1976
6.8
Donny & Marie
1976NR
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
1975
6.9
Saturday Night Live
197510.0
Land's End
1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
6.0
The Mothers-in-Law
1967
6.8
Ironside
19678.0
The Carol Channing Show
1966
6.0
Star Trek: The Cage
1965
NR
Surf Scene
1963
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
7.0
The Lucy Show
1962
6.5
The Virginian
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
NR
Dragon by the Tail
19617.0
Alcatraz Express
1961
6.5
Guestward, Ho!
1960NR
The Man in the Funny Suit
1960NR
The Gun of Zangara
19605.0
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
7.8
U.S. Marshall
1958
6.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
7.5
The Ann Sothern Show
1958
6.0
The Texan
1958
6.2
The Fountain of Youth
1958
9.0
Colgate Theatre
1958
NR
Strange Witness
1958
8.7
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
7.5
The Walter Winchell File
1957
NR
The Bob Hope Chevy Show
1956
NR
Tony Awards
1956
6.9
Forever, Darling
1956
6.5
Lucy's Really Lost Moments
1956
7.5
MGM Parade
1955
6.3
December Bride
1954
8.0
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
7.0
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
7.7
I Love Lucy: The Movie
1953
4.6
Cavalcade of America
1952
7.9
I Love Lucy
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
1951
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
19507.7
The Ed Wynn Show
1949
5.6
Holiday in Havana
1949
7.9
The Emmy Awards
1949
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
5.4
Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra
1946
6.0
Cuban Pete
1946
6.4
Bataan
1943
6.0
The Navy Comes Through
1942
6.5
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
7.0
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
6.8
Father Takes a Wife
1941
5.9
Too Many Girls
1940
NR
The Lucy-Desi Milton Berle Special
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NR
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Bernadette Episode
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NR
The Time Element
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