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Francisco Rabal

Born · March 8, 1926

Died · August 29, 2001 (75 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain

Bio

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

0.0

1994

Truhanes

Ginés Giménez · (26 episodes)

4.0

1993

La Lola se va a los puertos

Don Diego

4.9

1993

The Man Who Lost His Shadow

Antonio

5.3

1992

Ni contigo ni sin ti

0.0

1992

Imágenes perdidas

Himself - Narrator · (1 episode)

0.0

1991

La taberna fantástica

Rogelio

0.0

1991

Manuel, le fils emprunté

Juan Alvarez

6.3

1990

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Máximo Espejo

6.9

1990

The White Dove

Domingo

6.0

1989

Baroque

El Hispano

5.6

1989

Torquemada

8.0

1989

Juncal

José Álvarez "Juncal" · (7 episodes)

6.0

1989

Buñuel

Self

0.0

1989

Scent of a Crime

Coronel Olvera

4.3

1988

A Time of Destiny

Jorge Larraneta

4.8

1988

Il mistero del panino assassino

Arno dei conti Vincini

0.0

1987

Divine Words

Pedro Gailo

5.4

1987

El disputado voto del señor Cayo

Señor Cayo

5.3

1986

0.0

1984

Epilogue

Rocabruno

4.8

1984

Un delitto

0.0

1984

Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17

Coronel Márquez

2.0

1983

Crooks

Ginés Jiménez Valera

5.4

1983

Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble

Coronel Márquez

0.0

1983

Los Desastres de la Guerra

Francisco de Goya · (6 episodes)

0.0

1983

Treasure of the Four Crowns

Sócrates

4.1

1983

Salzillo

0.0

1983

The Beehive

Ricardo Sorbedo

6.5

1982

Reborn

Giacomo

4.1

1981

Cervantes

Mateo Alemán · (9 episodes)

6.5

1981

Nightmare City

Major Warren Holmes

5.7

1980

Speed Driver

Esposito

4.8

1980

El gran secreto

Domingo

0.0

1980

Under Siege

William Lombard

4.8

1980

Fortunata and Jacinta

José Izquierdo · (10 episodes)

5.8

1980

The Rebel

Tony

4.1

1980

Vultures Over the City

Bender

5.4

1980

El buscón

Mata

5.0

1979

Hunted City

Don Alfonso

5.4

1979

Corleone

Don Giusto Provenzano

7.3

1978

Stay As You Are

Lorenzo

5.8

1978

Hotel Fear

5.6

1973

La otra imagen

0.0

1973

La colonna infame

Giacomo Mora - il barbiere

6.0

1973

La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea

Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea

8.0

1973

The Guerrilla

El Cabrero (The Shepherd)

2.0

1973

Planet Venus

Party chauffer

0.0

1972

N.P. - The Secret

Ingegnere N.P.

6.5

1972

Le soldat Laforêt

Paco

7.0

1972

It Can Be Done Amigo

Sheriff

5.7

1972

Nada menos que todo un hombre

Alejandro Gómez

6.0

1972

Goya: A Story of Solitude

Goya

7.3

1971

El apartamento de la tentación

Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)

5.0

1971

The Big Black Sow

Il Medico

0.0

1971

Exorcism's Daughter

Fuso

4.6

1971

Cutting Heads

Díaz II

4.3

1970

Ann and Eve

Francesco

4.0

1970

Pedro

5.8

1968

Les Anges exterminés

0.0

1968

Bloody Che Contra

Che Guevara

7.9

1968

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes

Rodrigo Cervantes

7.5

1967

Oscuros sueños de agosto

Julio

4.9

1967

Belle de Jour

Hyppolite

7.4

1967

Long Days of Vengeance

Sheriff Douglas

5.8

1967

The Witches

Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")

6.1

1967

Camino del Rocío

José Antonio

5.4

1966

7.2

1965

Legacy of the Incas

Gambusino

5.8

1965

The Blue Panther

Paco Castillo

4.9

1965

Currito de la Cruz

Manuel Carmona

5.0

1965

España insólita

(voice)

6.0

1965

The Devil Also Cries

Tomás

5.8

1965

Intimidad de los parques

Héctor

4.8

1965

The Other Woman

Zaylor

0.0

1964

Weeping for a Bandit

José María 'El Tempranillo'

5.1

1964

The Big Hit

Michel Arland

6.4

1964

The Reunion

Alberto

6.0

1963

Autopsia de un criminal

Carlos

5.0

1963

Summer Night

Bernardo

5.9

1963

Mathias Sandorf

Frédéric de Rotenbourg

6.0

1963

I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo

Fra Diavolo

5.8

1962

The Female: Seventy Times Seven

Pascual

5.9

1962

L'Eclisse

Riccardo

El hombre de la isla

Lorenzo 'El Moro'

5.5

1960

Trío de damas

Alberto Sáinz Robledo

4.7

1960

Cavalcata selvaggia

0.0

1960

Sonatas

Marqués Javier de Bradomín

4.6

1959

Two Men in Town

Superintendente

0.0

1959

Diez fusiles esperan

José Iribarren

5.0

1959

Nazarin

Father Nazario

7.7

1959

La noche y el alba

Pedro

5.6

1958

Cuenca

Narrator (voice)

6.5

1958

L'uomo dai calzoni corti

Mario

5.0

1958

Revenge

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

5.8

1958

The Mighty Crusaders

Tancredi d'Altavilla

5.0

1957

The Wide Blue Road

Salvatore

6.0

1957

Whom God Forgives

Juan Cuenca

4.8

1957

Saranno uomini

Giacomo

5.0

1957

Marisa

Antonio

5.5

1957

La gran mentira

César Neira

6.0

1956

Revelation

Sergio Gresky

7.0

1955

The Miller's Saucy Wife

Cristóbal Paterna

5.0

1955

El canto del gallo

Padre Miller

5.0

1955

Death of a Cyclist

(uncredited)

7.2

1955

Radio Stories

Gabriel

7.2

1955

Murió hace quince años

Diego

4.7

1954

All Is Possible in Granada

Fernando Ortega

5.0

1954

Judas' Kiss

Quinto Licinio

10.0

1954

Hay un camino a la derecha

Miguel

5.8

1953

I Was a Parish Priest

Martín

7.0

1953

María Morena

El Sevillano

0.0

1952

Luna de sangre

Pedro Alvareda

4.3

1952

Sor Intrépida

Tomás

0.0

1952

Doubt

Rafael Figueroa

8.0

1951

Perseguidos

0.0

1951

María Antonia "La Caramba"

0.0

1951

La honradez de la cerradura

Ernesto

6.4

1950

Alhucemas

Tostado (uncredited)

0.0

1948

Don Quixote

(uncredited)

5.6

1947

El crimen de Pepe Conde

4.0

1946

La rueda de la vida

Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)

6.0

1942

Land Without Bread

Spanish Narrator, 1996 (voice)

7.0

1933