Desi Arnaz
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.
As actor 62
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Saturday Night Live
1975
Alice
1976
Ironside
1967
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Tony Awards
1956
I Love Lucy
1951
The Virginian
1962
The Red Skelton Show
1951
What's My Line?
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The Bob Hope Show
1950
December Bride
1954
MGM Parade
1955
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Donny & Marie
1976
The Mothers-in-Law
1967
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
The Ed Wynn Show
1949
The Emmy Awards
1949
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
Bataan
1943
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Lucy and Desi
2022
A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music
2025
Too Many Girls
1940
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
My Darling Vivian
2020
The Navy Comes Through
1942
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Salsa
1976
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
The Escape Artist
1982
Joys
1976
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
2011
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
The Time Element
Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie
1993
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
Cuban Pete
1946
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Bernadette Episode
Forever, Darling
1956
I Love Lucy: The Movie
1953
CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years
1976
Land's End
1968
The Man in the Funny Suit
1960
Holiday in Havana
1949
Lucy's Really Lost Moments
1956
Father Takes a Wife
1941
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television
1975
The Lucy-Desi Milton Berle Special
Desi Arnaz and His Orchestra
1946
The Funny World of Lucy, Volume 1
1997
The Bob Hope Chevy Show
1956
I Love Lucy Christmas Special
2016
On the crew 24
I Love Lucy
1951
The Lucy Show
1962
The Texan
1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Mothers-in-Law
1967
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
1957
The Ann Sothern Show
1958
Guestward, Ho!
1960
U.S. Marshall
1958
The Walter Winchell File
1957
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
Colgate Theatre
1958
Star Trek: The Cage
1965
Alcatraz Express
1961
Strange Witness
1958
The Carol Channing Show
1966
The Gun of Zangara
1960
Dragon by the Tail
1961
The Fountain of Youth
1958
Land's End
1968
The Man in the Funny Suit
1960
Lucy's Really Lost Moments
1956
Surf Scene
1963