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Francisco Rabal


Francisco Rabal

Birthday:

03/08/1926

Place of birth:

Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain:

Biography:

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.


Credits

Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli (2002)
as Zio Henrique
Zero/infinito (2002)
as (voice)
Dagon (2001)
as Ezequiel
¿Tú qué harías por amor? (2001)
as Don Vicente
Lázaro de Tormes (2001)
as El Ciego
Las noches de Constantinopla (2001)
as
Divertimento (2000)
as
Peixe-Lua (2000)
as Tio Nini
A propósito de Buñuel (2000)
as Self
Goya en Burdeos (1999)
as Goya
Talk of Angels (1998)
as Don Jorge
El evangelio de las maravillas (1998)
as Papá Basilio
Les paradoxes de Buñuel (1998)
as Self
En dag til i solen (1998)
as
La novia de medianoche (1997)
as Wenceslao Corredoira
Pequeños milagros (1997)
as Don Francisco
Pajarico (1997)
as El Abuelo
Airbag (1997)
as Villambrosa
Le Jour et la Nuit (1997)
as Cristobal
Edipo alcalde (1996)
as Tiresias
Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra (1995)
as San Pedro
El palomo cojo (1995)
as Tío Ricardo
Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
as Luis Buñuel (voice)
Felicidades, Tovarich (1995)
as Abuelo
La mujer cualquiera (1994)
as
La Lola se va a los puertos (1993)
as Don Diego
Paco, mi padre (1992)
as
L'Homme qui a perdu son ombre (1992)
as Antonio
Ni contigo ni sin ti (1992)
as
L'autre (1991)
as
La taberna fantástica (1991)
as Rogelio
Manuel, le fils emprunté (1990)
as Juan Alvarez
¡Átame! (1990)
as Máximo Espejo
La blanca paloma (1989)
as Domingo
Barroco (1989)
as El Hispano
Torquemada (1989)
as Torquemada
Buñuel (1989)
as Self
El aire de un crimen (1988)
as Coronel Olvera
A Time of Destiny (1988)
as Jorge Larraneta
Il mistero del panino assassino (1987)
as Arno dei conti Vincini
Divinas palabras (1987)
as Pedro Gailo
El disputado voto del señor Cayo (1986)
as Señor Cayo
El hermano bastardo de Dios (1986)
as
Tiempo de silencio (1986)
as Muecas
Un complicato intrigo di donne, vicoli e delitti (1986)
as Guaglione
Escapada final (Scapegoat) (1985)
as Comisario Cárdenas
La hora bruja (1985)
as Cesar
Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas (1985)
as Juan
La vieja música (1985)
as Domingo Ferreiro
Luces de Bohemia (1985)
as Max Estrella
Padre nuestro (1985)
as Abel
Los paraísos perdidos (1985)
as El político anciano
Los zancos (1984)
as Manuel
Un delitto (1984)
as Abbot
Los santos inocentes (1984)
as Azarías
Sal gorda (1984)
as Gabino
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa (1984)
as Coronel Márquez
Epílogo (1984)
as Rocabruno
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 (1983)
as Coronel Márquez
Truhanes (1983)
as Ginés Jiménez Valera
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble (1983)
as Coronel Márquez
El tesoro de las cuatro coronas (1983)
as Sócrates
Salzillo (1983)
as Salzillo
La colmena (1982)
as Ricardo Sorbedo
Reborn (1981)
as Giacomo
Buitres sobre la ciudad (1981)
as Bender
Incubo sulla città contaminata (1980)
as Major Warren Holmes
Speed Driver (1980)
as Esposito
El gran secreto (1980)
as Domingo
Traficantes Del Panico (1980)
as William Lombard
Poliziotto, solitudine e rabbia (1980)
as Tony
El buscón (1979)
as Mata
Ciao Cialtroni! (1979)
as Fra' Giovanni
Sbirro, la tua legge è lenta... la mia... no! (1979)
as Don Alfonso
Corleone (1978)
as Don Giusto Provenzano
Così come sei (1978)
as Lorenzo
Pensione paura (1978)
as Marta's lover
Io sono mia (1977)
as Padre di Orio
Il prefetto di ferro (1977)
as Albanese the Outlaw
Sorcerer (1977)
as Nilo
Kolossal - I magnifici Macisti (1977)
as
Il deserto dei Tartari (1976)
as M.llo Tronk
Las largas vacaciones del 36 (1976)
as Teacher
Emilia... parada y fonda (1976)
as
Las bodas de Blanca (1975)
as Antonio
Attenti al buffone (1975)
as Eminenza
Le città del mondo (1975)
as Matteo
Cacique Bandeira (1975)
as Azevedo Bandeira
Faccia di spia (1975)
as Mehdi Ben Barka
La peccatrice (1975)
as Turco
Metralleta 'Stein' (1975)
as Comisario Emilio Mendoza
Il sorriso del grande tentatore (1974)
as Bishop Marquez
Tormento (1974)
as Agustín Caballero
No es nada, mamá, sólo un juego (1974)
as Tío
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar (1974)
as Self (uncredited)
La moglie giovane (1974)
as The Blackmailer
Il consigliori (1973)
as Vincent Garofalo
La otra imagen (1973)
as
La colonna infame (1973)
as Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea (1973)
as Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
La guerrilla (1973)
as El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
Pianeta Venere (1972)
as Party chauffer
N.P. - Il segreto (1972)
as Ingegnere N.P.
Le Soldat Laforêt (1972)
as Paco
Si può fare… amigo (1972)
as Sheriff
Nada menos que todo un hombre (1972)
as Alejandro Gómez
Goya: historia de una soledad (1971)
as Goya
El apartamento de la tentación (1971)
as Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
La grande scrofa nera (1971)
as Il Medico
Las melancólicas (1971)
as Fuso
Cabezas cortadas (1970)
as Díaz II
Ann och Eve - de erotiska (1970)
as Francesco
Laia (1970)
as
Diario Spagnolo (1970)
as Él mismo
Los desafíos (1969)
as Carlos
Simón Bolívar (1969)
as José Antonio Del Llano
Un adulterio decente (1969)
as Conserje (uncredited)
España otra vez (1969)
as Reportero
La battaglia d'Inghilterra (1969)
as Martin
Sangre en el ruedo (1969)
as Juan Carmona
Después del diluvio (1968)
as Pedro
Les Anges exterminés (1968)
as
El ''Che'' Guevara (1968)
as Che Guevara
Cervantes (1967)
as Rodrigo Cervantes
La Religieuse (1967)
as Dom Morel
Oscuros sueños de agosto (1967)
as Julio
Belle de jour (1967)
as Hyppolite
I lunghi giorni della vendetta (1967)
as Sheriff Douglas
Le streghe (1967)
as Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Camino del Rocío (1966)
as José Antonio
Don Juan Tenorio (1966)
as Don Juan Tenorio
Hoy como ayer (1966)
as Ramón
María Rosa (1965)
as
Das Vermächtnis des Inka (1965)
as Gambusino
Marie Chantal contre Dr. Kha (1965)
as Paco Castillo
Currito de la Cruz (1965)
as Manuel Carmona
España insólita (1965)
as (voice)
El diablo también llora (1965)
as Tomás
Intimidad de los parques (1965)
as Héctor
L'Autre Femme (1964)
as Zaylor
Llanto por un bandido (1964)
as José María 'El Tempranillo'
Le gros coup (1964)
as Michel Arland
La Rimpatriata (1963)
as Alberto
Autopsia de un criminal (1963)
as Carlos
Noche de verano (1963)
as Bernardo
Mathias Sandorf (1963)
as Frédéric de Rotenbourg
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo (1962)
as Fra Diavolo
Setenta veces siete (1962)
as Pascual
L'eclisse (1962)
as Riccardo
Viridiana (1962)
as Jorge
Azahares rojos (1961)
as Arturo Gómez Mancera
Tiro al piccione (1961)
as Elia
A las cinco de la tarde (1961)
as Juan Reyes
La mano en la trampa (1961)
as Cristóbal Archaval
Hijo de hombre (1961)
as
El hombre de la isla (1960)
as Lorenzo 'El Moro'
Trío de damas (1960)
as Alberto Sáinz Robledo
Cavalcata selvaggia (1960)
as
Sonatas (1959)
as Marqués Javier de Bradomín
Llegaron dos hombres (1959)
as Superintendente
Diez fusiles esperan (1959)
as José Iribarren
Nazarín (1959)
as Father Nazario
La noche y el alba (1958)
as Pedro
Cuenca (1958)
as Narrator (voice)
L'uomo dai calzoni corti (1958)
as Mario
La venganza (1958)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
La Gerusalemme liberata (1957)
as Tancredi d'Altavilla
La grande strada azzurra (1957)
as Salvatore
Amanecer en Puerta Oscura (1957)
as Juan Cuenca
Saranno uomini (1957)
as Giacomo
Marisa la civetta (1957)
as Antonio
La gran mentira (1956)
as César Neira
Prigionieri del male (1955)
as Sergio Gresky
La pícara molinera (1955)
as Cristóbal Paterna
El canto del gallo (1955)
as Padre Miller
Muerte de un ciclista (1955)
as (uncredited)
Historias de la radio (1955)
as Gabriel
Murió hace quince años (1954)
as Diego
Todo es posible en Granada (1954)
as Fernando Ortega
El beso de Judas (1954)
as Quinto Licinio
Hay un camino a la derecha (1953)
as Miguel
La guerra de Dios (1953)
as Martín
María Morena (1952)
as El Sevillano
Luna de sangre (1952)
as Pedro Alvareda
Sor Intrépida (1952)
as Tomás
Duda (1951)
as Rafael Figueroa
Perseguidos (1951)
as
María Antonia "La Caramba" (1951)
as
La honradez de la cerradura (1950)
as Ernesto
Alhucemas (1948)
as Tostado (uncredited)
Don Quijote de la Mancha (1947)
as (uncredited)
El crimen de Pepe Conde (1946)
as
La rueda de la vida (1942)
as Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
Las Hurdes (1933)
as Narrator (voice)
Morte di un bandito ()
as Vito Ribera