Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Sowards wrote the original screenplay, with substantial uncredited revisions by Meyer. The film made approximately ninety-seven million dollars worldwide on an eleven million dollar budget.
Ricardo Montalbán played Khan Noonien Singh twice, fifteen years apart, and the Wrath of Khan performance is the reason that film works: he never shares a frame with Shatner and the entire conflict is conducted by viewscreen.
He founded Nosotros, an organisation advocating for better representation of Latino performers, at a point when the industry offered almost nothing but stereotypes.
Fantasy Island gave him a long television lead, and the Chrysler Cordoba advertisements made his voice a national joke he took in good humour. He worked in a wheelchair after spinal surgery.