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
Oedipus Mayor (1996)
as Tiresias
Sorcerer (1977)
as Nilo
Belle de Jour (1967)
as Hyppolite
The Other (1991)
Actor
L'Eclisse (1962)
as Riccardo
Dagon (2001)
as Ezequiel
El buscón (1979)
as Mata
El disputado voto del señor Cayo (1986)
as Señor Cayo
La vieja música (1985)
as Domingo Ferreiro
Fight to the Death (1975)
as Comisario Emilio Mendoza
Crooks (1983)
as Ginés Jiménez Valera
Path to the Kingdom (1952)
as Tomás
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
as Máximo Espejo
María Rosa (1965)
Actor
Stay as You Are (1978)
as Lorenzo
Reborn (1981)
as Giacomo
Intimidad de los parques (1965)
as Héctor
Camino del Rocío (1966)
as José Antonio
Little Miracles (1997)
as Don Francisco
Spain Again (1969)
as Reportero
El hermano bastardo de Dios (1986)
Actor
Radio Stories (1955)
as Gabriel
Saranno uomini (1957)
as Giacomo
Hunted City (1979)
as Don Alfonso
Our Father (1985)
as Abel
Viridiana (1962)
as Jorge
One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
as Luis Buñuel (voice)
Little Bird (1997)
as El Abuelo
Doubt (1951)
as Rafael Figueroa
Long Days of Vengeance (1967)
as Sheriff Douglas
Perseguidos (1951)
Actor
Bohemian Nights (1985)
as Max Estrella
Trío de damas (1960)
as Alberto Sáinz Robledo
Divertimento (2000)
Actor
Marisa (1957)
as Antonio
Epilogue (1984)
as Rocabruno
Legacy of the Incas (1965)
as Gambusino
Tiempo de silencio (1986)
as Muecas
The Witches (1967)
as Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Morte di un bandito (—)
as Vito Ribera
Counselor at Crime (1973)
as Vincent Garofalo
Eagles Over London (1969)
as Martin
Traficantes Del Panico (1980)
as William Lombard
It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
as Sheriff Franciscus
The Female: Seventy Times Seven (1962)
as Pascual
Le Soldat Laforêt (1972)
as Paco
Hotel Fear (1978)
as Marta's lover
Summer Night (1963)
as Bernardo
The Nun (1967)
as Dom Morel
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game (1974)
as Tío
Baroque (1989)
as El Hispano
Death of a Cyclist (1955)
as (uncredited)
Airbag (1997)
as Villambrosa
Ciao Cialtroni! (1979)
as Fra' Giovanni
All Is Possible in Granada (1954)
as Fernando Ortega
Los clarines del miedo (1958)
as Aceituno
El gran secreto (1980)
as Domingo
Speaking of Buñuel (2000)
as Self
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) (1986)
as Guaglione
Nightmare City (1980)
as Major Warren Holmes
Land Without Bread (1933)
as Narrator (voice)
The Wide Blue Road (1957)
as Salvatore
Planet Venus (1972)
as Party chauffer
The Big Hit (1964)
as Michel Arland
Talk of Angels (1998)
as Don Jorge
The Beehive (1982)
as Ricardo Sorbedo
La gran mentira (1956)
as César Neira
Lázaro de Tormes (2001)
as El Ciego
El hombre de la isla (1960)
as Lorenzo 'El Moro'
Blood in the Bullring (1969)
as Juan Carmona
Cuenca (1958)
as Narrator (voice)
Paco, mi padre (1992)
Actor
Currito de la Cruz (1965)
as Manuel Carmona
I Am the Law (1977)
as Albanese the Outlaw
Revelation (1955)
as Sergio Gresky
The White Dove (1989)
as Domingo
Don Quixote (1947)
as (uncredited)
Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983)
as Sócrates
Eye of the Cat (1975)
as Eminenza
Revenge (1958)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)
Actor
The Man Who Lost His Shadow (1992)
as Antonio
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes (1967)
as Rodrigo Cervantes
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as M.llo Tronk
The Stilts (1984)
as Manuel
Ann and Eve (1970)
as Francesco
Vultures Over the City (1981)
as Bender
Murió hace quince años (1954)
as Diego
A Time of Destiny (1988)
as Jorge Larraneta
La Lola se va a los puertos (1993)
as Don Diego
La novia de medianoche (1997)
as Wenceslao Corredoira
Manuel, le fils emprunté (1990)
as Juan Alvarez
Corleone (1978)
as Don Giusto Provenzano
C.I.A. Secret Story (1975)
as Mehdi Ben Barka
Speed Driver (1980)
as Esposito
The Holy Innocents (1984)
as Azarías
The Rebel (1980)
as Tony
Exorcism's Daughter (1971)
as Fuso
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar (1974)
as Self (uncredited)
I Was a Parish Priest (1953)
as Martín
The Revolution on Two Horses (2002)
as Zio Henrique
Death Will Have Your Eyes (1974)
as The Blackmailer
Hoy como ayer (1966)
as Ramón
On Earth as It Is in Heaven (1995)
as San Pedro
Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
as Goya
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 (1983)
as Coronel Márquez
El canto del gallo (1955)
as Padre Miller
Laia (1970)
Actor
La otra imagen (1973)
Actor
The Long Vacations of '36 (1976)
as Teacher
Divine (1998)
as Papá Basilio
Judas' Kiss (1954)
as Quinto Licinio
Simón Bolívar (1969)
as José Antonio Del Llano
The Other Woman (1964)
as Zaylor
La taberna fantástica (1991)
as Rogelio
The Miller's Saucy Wife (1955)
as Cristóbal Paterna
Ni contigo ni sin ti (1992)
Actor
L'uomo dai calzoni corti (1958)
as Mario
The Challenges (1969)
as Carlos
Un adulterio decente (1969)
as Conserje (uncredited)
Emilia... parada y fonda (1976)
Actor
The Big Black Sow (1971)
as Il Medico
Day and Night (1997)
as Cristobal
The Guerrilla (1973)
as El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
The Blue Panther (1965)
as Paco Castillo
Coarse Salt (1984)
as Gabino
Whom God Forgives (1957)
as Juan Cuenca
Hay un camino a la derecha (1953)
as Miguel
Nazarín (1959)
as Father Nazario
María Morena (1952)
as El Sevillano
After the Deluge (1968)
as Pedro
The Hand in the Trap (1961)
as Cristóbal Archaval
Sonatas (1959)
as Marqués Javier de Bradomín
Azahares rojos (1961)
as Arturo Gómez Mancera
Un delitto (1984)
as Abbot
The Devil Also Cries (1965)
as Tomás
Blanca's Weddings (1975)
as Antonio
The Dead Man (1975)
as Azevedo Bandeira
Autopsia de un criminal (1963)
as Carlos
El apartamento de la tentación (1971)
as Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
The Tempter (1974)
as Bishop Marquez
Hijo de hombre (1961)
Actor
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble (1983)
as Coronel Márquez
N.P. - The Secret (1972)
as Ingegnere N.P.
Goya: A Story of Solitude (1971)
as Goya
The Reunion (1963)
as Alberto
The City of World (1975)
as Matteo
Felicidades, Tovarich (1995)
as Abuelo
Divine Words (1987)
as Pedro Gailo
Oscuros sueños de agosto (1967)
as Julio
El crimen de Pepe Conde (1946)
Actor
Water Easy Reach (1998)
Actor
The Mighty Crusaders (1957)
as Tancredi d'Altavilla
La peccatrice (1975)
as Turco
The Lost Paradise (1985)
as El político anciano
La colonna infame (1973)
as Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
Io sono mia (1977)
as Padre di Orio
Pigeon Shoot (1961)
as Elia
La noche y el alba (1958)
as Pedro
Salzillo (1983)
as Salzillo
La honradez de la cerradura (1950)
as Ernesto
Cutting Heads (1970)
as Díaz II
Just Run! (2001)
as Don Vicente
Bloody Che Contra (1968)
as Che Guevara
Buñuel (1989)
as Self
Mathias Sandorf (1963)
as Frédéric de Rotenbourg
Alhucemas (1948)
as Tostado (uncredited)
Luna de sangre (1952)
as Pedro Alvareda
Marbella (1985)
as Juan
La rueda de la vida (1942)
as Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
Scent of a Crime (1988)
as Coronel Olvera
The Lame Pigeon (1995)
as Tío Ricardo
Les Anges exterminés (1968)
Actor
España insólita (1965)
as (voice)
María Antonia "La Caramba" (1951)
Actor
Scapegoat (1985)
as Comisario Cárdenas
Moonfish (2000)
as Tio Nini
Diez fusiles esperan (1959)
as José Iribarren
At Five in the Afternoon (1961)
as Juan Reyes
The Witching Hour (1985)
as Cesar
La mujer cualquiera (1994)
Actor
Nada menos que todo un hombre (1972)
as Alejandro Gómez
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea (1973)
as Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
Il mistero del panino assassino (1987)
as Arno dei conti Vincini
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo (1962)
as Fra Diavolo
Tormento (1974)
as Agustín Caballero
Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
as José María 'El Tempranillo'
Torquemada (1989)
as Torquemada
Les paradoxes de Buñuel (1998)
as Self
Zero/infinito (2002)
as (voice)
Nights of Constantinople (2001)
Actor
Two Men in Town (1959)
as Superintendente
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa (1984)
as Coronel Márquez
Don Juan Tenorio (1966)
as Don Juan Tenorio
Diario Spagnolo (1970)
as Él mismo
Cavalcata selvaggia (1960)
Actor