Francisco Rabal
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francisco Rabal (March 8, 1926 – August 29, 2001), perhaps better known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor born in Águilas, a small town in the province of Murcia, Spain. In 1936, after the Spanish Civil War broke out. Rabal and his family left Murcia and moved to Madrid. Young Francisco had to work as a street salesboy and in a chocolate factory. When he was 13 years old, he left school to work as an electrician at Estudios Chamartín. Rabal got some sporadic jobs as an extra. Dámaso Alonso and other people advised him to try his luck with a career in theater. During the following years, he got some roles in theater companies such as Lope de Vega or María Guerrero. It was there that he met actress Asunción Balaguer; they married and remained together for the rest of Rabal's life. Their daughter, Teresa Rabal, is also an actor. In 1947, Rabal got some regular jobs in theater. He used his full name, Francisco Rabal, as stage name. However, the people who knew him always called him Paco Rabal. (Paco is the familiar form for Francisco.) "Paco Rabal" became his unofficial stage name. During the 1940s, Rabal began acting in movies as an extra, but it was not until 1950 that he was first cast in speaking roles, and played romantic leads and rogues. He starred in three films directed by Luis Buñuel - Nazarín (1959), Viridiana (1961) and Belle de jour (1967). William Friedkin thought of Rabal for the French villain of his 1971 movie The French Connection. However, he could not remember the name of "that Spanish actor". Mistakenly, his staff hired another Spanish actor, Fernando Rey. Friedkin discovered that Rabal did not speak English or French, so he decided to keep Rey. Rabal has previously worked with Rey in Viridiana. Rabal did, however, work with Friedkin in the much less successful but Academy Award-nominated cult classic Sorcerer (1977), a remake of The Wages of Fear (1953). Throughout his career, Rabal worked in France, Italy and Mexico with directors such as Gillo Pontecorvo, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Rivette and Alberto Lattuada. It is widely considered that Rabal's best performances came after Francisco Franco's death on 1975. In the 1980s, Rabal starred in Los santos inocentes, winning the Award as Best Actor in Cannes Film Festival, in El Disputado Voto del Señor Cayo and also in the TV series Juncal. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In the 1999 he played the character of Francisco Goya in Carlos Saura Goya en Burdeos, winning a Goya Award as Best Actor. Francisco Rabal is the only Spanish actor to have received a honoris causa doctoral degree from the University of Murcia. Rabal's final movie was Dagon, a film which was dedicated to him right before the credits. The dedication read "Dedicated to Francisco Rabal, a wonderful actor and even better human being." Rabal died in 2001 from compensatory dilating emphysema, while on an airplane travelling to Bordeaux, when he was coming back from receiving an Award at Montreal Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francisco Rabal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Belle de Jour (1967)
as Hyppolite
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
as Máximo Espejo
Sorcerer (1977)
as Nilo
L'Eclisse (1962)
as Riccardo
Dagon (2001)
as Ezequiel
Stay as You Are (1978)
as Lorenzo
The Witches (1967)
as Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
as Sheriff
Viridiana (1962)
as Jorge
Hotel Fear (1978)
as Marta's lover
Nightmare City (1980)
as Major Warren Holmes
Nazarín (1959)
as Father Nazario
Little Bird (1997)
as El Abuelo
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as M.llo Tronk
One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
as Luis Buñuel (voice)
Airbag (1997)
as Villambrosa
Talk of Angels (1998)
as Don Jorge
El buscón (1979)
as Mata
The Nun (1967)
as Dom Morel
Land Without Bread (1933)
as Narrator (voice)
Oedipus Mayor (1996)
as Tiresias
Eagles Over London (1969)
as Martin
The Beehive (1982)
as Ricardo Sorbedo
Our Father (1985)
as Abel
Death of a Cyclist (1955)
as (uncredited)
Counselor at Crime (1973)
as Vincent Garofalo
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)
Actor
Eye of the Cat (1975)
as Eminenza
Io sono mia (1977)
as Padre di Orio
Simón Bolívar (1969)
as José Antonio Del Llano
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game (1974)
as Tío
La vieja música (1985)
as Domingo Ferreiro
A Time of Destiny (1988)
as Jorge Larraneta
Fight to the Death (1975)
as Comisario Emilio Mendoza
Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
as Goya
Speed Driver (1980)
as Esposito
Legacy of the Incas (1965)
as Gambusino
Path to the Kingdom (1952)
as Tomás
La gran mentira (1956)
as César Neira
The Witching Hour (1985)
as Cesar
The Stilts (1984)
as Manuel
Traficantes Del Panico (1980)
as William Lombard
Little Miracles (1997)
as Don Francisco
The Holy Innocents (1984)
as Azarías
The Blue Panther (1965)
as Paco Castillo
The Challenges (1969)
as Carlos
Epilogue (1984)
as Rocabruno
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes (1967)
as Rodrigo Cervantes
Hunted City (1979)
as Don Alfonso
María Rosa (1965)
Actor
The Other (1991)
Actor
The White Dove (1989)
as Domingo
On Earth as It Is in Heaven (1995)
as San Pedro
Revenge (1958)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Pigeon Shoot (1961)
as Elia
Corleone (1978)
as Don Giusto Provenzano
Baroque (1989)
as El Hispano
Goya: A Story of Solitude (1971)
as Goya
Don Quixote (1947)
as (uncredited)
I Am the Law (1977)
as Albanese the Outlaw
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo (1962)
as Fra Diavolo
Trío de damas (1960)
as Alberto Sáinz Robledo
Perseguidos (1951)
Actor
Long Days of Vengeance (1967)
as Sheriff Douglas
Scent of a Crime (1988)
as Coronel Olvera
Mathias Sandorf (1963)
as Frédéric de Rotenbourg
The Guerrilla (1973)
as El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
Doubt (1951)
as Rafael Figueroa
Ann and Eve (1970)
as Francesco
The Lame Pigeon (1995)
as Tío Ricardo
Bloody Che Contra (1968)
as Che Guevara
Planet Venus (1972)
as Party chauffer
Ciao Cialtroni! (1979)
as Fra' Giovanni
Spain Again (1969)
as Reportero
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) (1986)
as Guaglione
Oscuros sueños de agosto (1967)
as Julio
Currito de la Cruz (1965)
as Manuel Carmona
The Tempter (1974)
as Bishop Marquez
Saranno uomini (1957)
as Giacomo
Divine Words (1987)
as Pedro Gailo
Crooks (1983)
as Ginés Jiménez Valera
El canto del gallo (1955)
as Padre Miller
Blood in the Bullring (1969)
as Juan Carmona
Coarse Salt (1984)
as Gabino
Speaking of Buñuel (2000)
as Self
Radio Stories (1955)
as Gabriel
El disputado voto del señor Cayo (1986)
as Señor Cayo
La colonna infame (1973)
as Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
C.I.A. Secret Story (1975)
as Mehdi Ben Barka
The Wide Blue Road (1957)
as Salvatore
The Long Vacations of '36 (1976)
as Teacher
La noche y el alba (1958)
as Pedro
Day and Night (1997)
as Cristobal
Nada menos que todo un hombre (1972)
as Alejandro Gómez
Un delitto (1984)
as Abbot
The Big Hit (1964)
as Michel Arland
The Mighty Crusaders (1957)
as Tancredi d'Altavilla
Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
as José María 'El Tempranillo'
Two Men in Town (1959)
as Superintendente
Sonatas (1959)
as Marqués Javier de Bradomín
The Female: Seventy Times Seven (1962)
as Pascual
L'uomo dai calzoni corti (1958)
as Mario
N.P. - The Secret (1972)
as Ingegnere N.P.
Hoy como ayer (1966)
as Ramón
El hermano bastardo de Dios (1986)
Actor
Murió hace quince años (1954)
as Diego
Reborn (1981)
as Giacomo
The Other Woman (1964)
as Zaylor
Whom God Forgives (1957)
as Juan Cuenca
Judas' Kiss (1954)
as Quinto Licinio
Summer Night (1963)
as Bernardo
Marisa (1957)
as Antonio
The Reunion (1963)
as Alberto
Camino del Rocío (1966)
as José Antonio
El hombre de la isla (1960)
as Lorenzo 'El Moro'
The Big Black Sow (1971)
as Il Medico
I Was a Parish Priest (1953)
as Martín
Felicidades, Tovarich (1995)
as Abuelo
La novia de medianoche (1997)
as Wenceslao Corredoira
Exorcism's Daughter (1971)
as Fuso
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar (1974)
as Self (uncredited)
Paco, mi padre (1992)
Actor
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 (1983)
as Coronel Márquez
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble (1983)
as Coronel Márquez
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea (1973)
as Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
Laia (1970)
Actor
El apartamento de la tentación (1971)
as Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
The Lost Paradise (1985)
as El político anciano
El crimen de Pepe Conde (1946)
Actor
Vultures Over the City (1981)
as Bender
Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983)
as Sócrates
The Rebel (1980)
as Tony
Cavalcata selvaggia (1960)
Actor
Moonfish (2000)
as Tio Nini
All Is Possible in Granada (1954)
as Fernando Ortega
Azahares rojos (1961)
as Arturo Gómez Mancera
Zero/infinito (2002)
as (voice)
La otra imagen (1973)
Actor
Death Will Have Your Eyes (1974)
as The Blackmailer
Luna de sangre (1952)
as Pedro Alvareda
La taberna fantástica (1991)
as Rogelio
Les Anges exterminés (1968)
Actor
Marbella (1985)
as Juan
La peccatrice (1975)
as Turco
Tiempo de silencio (1986)
as Muecas
The City of World (1975)
as Matteo
Lázaro de Tormes (2001)
as El Ciego
María Antonia "La Caramba" (1951)
Actor
Morte di un bandito (—)
as Vito Ribera
La Lola se va a los puertos (1993)
as Don Diego
La honradez de la cerradura (1950)
as Ernesto
Water Easy Reach (1998)
Actor
Il mistero del panino assassino (1987)
as Arno dei conti Vincini
Un adulterio decente (1969)
as Conserje (uncredited)
Tormento (1974)
as Agustín Caballero
Hijo de hombre (1961)
Actor
Los clarines del miedo (1958)
as Aceituno
The Devil Also Cries (1965)
as Tomás
Alhucemas (1948)
as Tostado (uncredited)
Don Juan Tenorio (1966)
as Don Juan Tenorio
The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1992)
as Antonio
Ni contigo ni sin ti (1992)
Actor
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa (1984)
as Coronel Márquez
The Revolution on Two Horses (2002)
as Zio Henrique
The Dead Man (1975)
as Azevedo Bandeira
Hay un camino a la derecha (1953)
as Miguel
Blanca's Weddings (1975)
as Antonio
Divine (1998)
as Papá Basilio
Emilia... parada y fonda (1976)
Actor
Les paradoxes de Buñuel (1998)
as Self
After the Deluge (1968)
as Pedro
Just Run! (2001)
as Don Vicente
La rueda de la vida (1942)
as Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
Cutting Heads (1970)
as Díaz II
Scapegoat (1985)
as Comisario Cárdenas
Divertimento (2000)
Actor
The Hand in the Trap (1961)
as Cristóbal Archaval
El gran secreto (1980)
as Domingo
María Morena (1952)
as El Sevillano
Le Soldat Laforêt (1972)
as Paco
Autopsia de un criminal (1963)
as Carlos
Torquemada (1989)
as Torquemada
Revelation (1955)
as Sergio Gresky
Intimidad de los parques (1965)
as Héctor
The Miller's Saucy Wife (1955)
as Cristóbal Paterna
Buñuel (1989)
as Self
Bohemian Nights (1985)
as Max Estrella
At Five in the Afternoon (1961)
as Juan Reyes
Cuenca (1958)
as Narrator (voice)
España insólita (1965)
as (voice)
Diez fusiles esperan (1959)
as José Iribarren
Diario Spagnolo (1970)
as Él mismo
Manuel, le fils emprunté (1990)
as Juan Alvarez
Salzillo (1983)
as Salzillo
Nights of Constantinople (2001)
Actor
La mujer cualquiera (1994)
Actor