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