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Francisco Rabal
Actor, Additional Credits
Born March 8, 1926Died August 29, 2001 (75 years)
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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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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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Known For
Filmography
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · as Cast |
| 2001 | Off to the Revolution by a 2CV · as Zio Henrique |
| 2001 | El sueño del caimán · as Anciano |
| 2001 | |
| 2001 | Premio Donostia a Paco Rabal · as Cast |
| 2000 | Lázaro de Tormes · as El Ciego |
| 2000 | |
| 2000 | Moonfish · as Tio Nini |
| 2000 | Just Run! · as Don Vicente |
| 1999 | Goya in Bordeaux · as Goya |
| 1998 | Talk of Angels · as Don Jorge |
| 1998 | Divine · as Papá Basilio |
| 1998 | |
| 1997 | La novia de medianoche · as Wenceslao Corredoira |
| 1997 | Little Miracles · as Don Francisco |
| 1997 | Little Bird · as El Abuelo |
| 1997 | Airbag · as Villambrosa |
| 1997 | Day and Night · as Cristobal |
| 1996 | Oedipus Mayor · as Tiresias |
| 1995 | On Earth as It Is in Heaven · as San Pedro |
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | One Hundred and One Nights · as Luis Buñuel (voice) |
| 1995 | Felicidades, Tovarich · as Abuelo |
| 1993 | Truhanes (TV Series) · as Ginés Giménez |
| 1993 | La Lola se va a los puertos · as Don Diego |
| 1993 | Los ladrones van a la oficina (TV Series) · as Armando Guerra Segura 'gran Morgan' |
| 1991 | The Man Who Lost His Shadow · as Antonio |
| 1991 | L'autre · as Simm |
| 1990 | The woman of your life (TV Series) · as Alejandro Del Castillo |
| 1989 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! · as Máximo Espejo |
| 1989 | La blanca paloma · as Domingo |
| 1989 | Barroco · as El Hispano |
| 1989 | Torquemada · as Torquemada |
| 1989 | Juncal (TV Series) · as José Álvarez "juncal" |
| 1988 | Scent of a Crime · as Coronel Olvera |
| 1988 | A Time of Destiny · as Jorge Larraneta |
| 1987 | Divinas palabras · as Pedro Gailo |
| 1986 | El disputado voto del Sr. Cayo · as Señor Cayo |
| 1986 | Tiempo de silencio · as Muecas |
| 1986 | History · as Remo |
| 1985 | Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) · as Guaglione |
| 1985 | The Witching Hour · as Cesar |
| 1985 | Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas · as Juan |
| 1985 | Padre nuestro · as Abel |
| 1985 | The Old Music · as Domingo Ferreiro |
| 1985 | Luces de bohemia · as Max Estrella |
| 1985 | Un marinaio e mezzo · as Eduardo Guerrero |
| 1985 | Los paraísos perdidos · as El Político Anciano |
| 1984 | Los zancos · as Manuel |
| 1984 | The Holy Innocents · as Azarías |
| 1984 | Teresa de Jesus (TV Series) · as Alonso |
| 1984 | The Octopus (TV Series) · as Abbott Lovani |
| 1984 | Coarse Salt · as Gabino |
| 1984 | Epílogo · as Rocabruno |
| 1983 | Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 · as Coronel Márquez |
| 1983 | Truhanes · as Ginés Jiménez Valera |
| 1983 | Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble · as Coronel Márquez |
| 1983 | Los desastres de la guerra (TV Series) · as Francisco De Goya |
| 1983 | Treasure of the Four Crowns · as Sócrates |
| 1982 | La colmena · as Ricardo Sorbedo |
| 1982 | La Máscara Negra (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1981 | Reborn · as Giacomo |
| 1981 | Buitres sobre la ciudad · as Bender |
| 1981 | Cervantes (TV Series) · as Mateo Alemán |
| 1980 | Nightmare City · as Major Warren Holmes |
| 1980 | Speed Driver · as Esposito |
| 1980 | El gran secreto · as Domingo |
| 1980 | The Rebel · as Tony |
| 1980 | Under Siege · as William Lombard |
| 1980 | Fortunata y Jacinta (TV Series) · as José Izquierdo |
| 1979 | Sbirro, la tua legge è lenta... la mia... no! · as Don Alfonso |
| 1978 | Io sono mia · as Padre Di Orio |
| 1978 | Corleone · as Don Giusto Provenzano |
| 1978 | Stay as You Are · as Lorenzo |
| 1978 | Hotel Fear · as Marta's Lover |
| 1977 | Il prefetto di ferro · as Albanese The Outlaw |
| 1977 | Sorcerer · as Nilo |
| 1976 | The Desert of the Tartars · as M.llo Tronk |
| 1976 | Long Vacations of 36 · as Teacher |
| 1976 | |
| 1975 | Eye of the Cat · as Eminenza |
| 1975 | C.I.A. Secret Story · as Mehdi Ben Barka |
| 1975 | The Sinner · as Turco |
| 1975 | Metralleta 'Stein' · as Comisario Emilio Mendoza |
| 1974 | Torment · as Agustín Caballero |
| 1974 | Beyond Erotica · as Tío |
| 1974 | The Devil Is a Woman · as Bishop Marquez |
| 1974 | Death Will Have Your Eyes · as The Blackmailer |
| 1973 | Counselor at Crime · as Vincent Garofalo |
| 1973 | La guerrilla · as El Cabrero (the Shepherd) |
| 1972 | Laforet the Soldier · as Paco |
| 1972 | It Can Be Done Amigo · as Sheriff |
| 1971 | N.P. · as Ingegnere N.p. |
| 1971 | El apartamento de la tentación · as Hombre Que Se Cruza Con Julieta (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Exorcism's Daughter · as Fuso |
| 1970 | Cutting Heads · as Díaz Ii |
| 1970 | Ann and Eve · as Francesco |
| 1969 | Eagles Over London · as Martin |
| 1969 | The Challenges · as Carlos |
| 1969 | Simón Bolívar · as José Antonio Del Llano |
| 1969 | Sangre en el ruedo · as Juan Carmona |
| 1968 | Spain Again · as Reportero |
| 1968 | Después del diluvio · as Pedro |
| 1968 | Bloody Che Contra · as Che Guevara |
| 1968 | Oscuros sueños de agosto · as Julio |
| 1967 | The Young Rebel · as Rodrigo Cervantes |
| 1967 | The Witches · as Paolo (segment "la Strega Bruciata Viva") |
| 1967 | Belle de Jour · as Hyppolite |
| 1967 | Long Days of Vengeance · as Sheriff Douglas |
| 1966 | Camino del Rocío · as José Antonio |
| 1966 | Don Juan Tenorio · as Don Juan Tenorio |
| 1966 | Hoy como ayer · as Ramón |
| 1966 | The Nun · as Dom Morel |
| 1965 | |
| 1965 | Estudio 1 (TV Series) · as César |
| 1965 | Blue Panther · as Paco Castillo |
| 1965 | Legacy of the Incas · as Gambusino |
| 1965 | Currito de la Cruz · as Manuel Carmona |
| 1965 | Intimidad de los parques · as Héctor |
| 1964 | The Other Woman · as Zaylor |
| 1964 | Weeping for a Bandit · as José María 'el Tempranillo' |
| 1964 | Le gros coup · as Michel Arland |
| 1963 | The Reunion · as Alberto |
| 1963 | Noche de verano · as Bernardo |
| 1963 | Mathias Sandorf · as Frédéric De Rotenbourg |
| 1962 | I tromboni di Fra Diavolo · as Fra Diavolo |
| 1962 | The Female: Seventy Times Seven · as Pascual |
| 1962 | L'Eclisse · as Riccardo |
| 1961 | Pigeon Shoot · as Elia |
| 1961 | The Hand in the Trap · as Cristóbal Archaval |
| 1961 | Viridiana · as Jorge |
| 1961 | |
| 1960 | At Five in the Afternoon · as Juan Reyes |
| 1960 | Trío de damas · as Alberto Sáinz Robledo |
| 1960 | El hombre de la isla · as Lorenzo 'el Moro' |
| 1959 | Sonatas · as Marqués Javier De Bradomín |
| 1959 | Two Men in Town · as Superintendente |
| 1959 | Nazarin · as Father Nazario |
| 1959 | Ten Ready Rifles · as José Iribarren |
| 1958 | La noche y el alba · as Pedro |
| 1958 | Cuenca · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1958 | Vengeance · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1957 | La Gerusalemme liberata · as Tancredi D'altavilla |
| 1957 | La grande strada azzurra · as Salvatore |
| 1957 | Whom God Forgives · as Juan Cuenca |
| 1957 | Marisa · as Antonio |
| 1956 | La gran mentira · as César Neira |
| 1955 | Revelation · as Sergio Gresky |
| 1955 | Historias de la radio · as Gabriel |
| 1955 | La pícara molinera · as Cristóbal Paterna |
| 1955 | El canto del gallo · as Padre Miller |
| 1955 | Death of a Cyclist · as (uncredited) |
| 1954 | Murió hace quince años · as Diego |
| 1954 | Judas' Kiss · as Quinto Licinio |
| 1953 | There's a Road on the Right · as Miguel |
| 1953 | I Was a Parish Priest · as Martín |
| 1952 | María Morena · as El Sevillano |
| 1952 | Path to the Kingdom · as Tomás |
| 1951 | Doubt · as Rafael Figueroa |
| 1950 | La honradez de la cerradura · as Ernesto |
| 1947 | Don Quijote de la Mancha · as (uncredited) |
| 1946 | |
| 1946 | The Prodigal Woman · as Cast |
| 1933 | Land Without Bread · as Spanish Narrator, 1996 (voice) |