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