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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain, 1926-03-08

Died: 2001-08-29

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Land Without Bread	Spanish Narrator, 1996 (voice)	70
2	1942	La rueda de la vida	Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)	60
3	1946	El crimen de Pepe Conde		40
4	1947	Don Quixote	(uncredited)	56
5	1948	Alhucemas	Tostado (uncredited)	0
6	1950	La honradez de la cerradura	Ernesto	64
7	1951	María Antonia "La Caramba"		0
8	1951	Perseguidos		0
9	1951	Doubt	Rafael Figueroa	80
10	1952	Sor Intrépida	Tomás	0
11	1952	Luna de sangre	Pedro Alvareda	43
12	1952	María Morena	El Sevillano	0
13	1953	I Was a Parish Priest	Martín	70
14	1953	Hay un camino a la derecha	Miguel	58
15	1954	Judas' Kiss	Quinto Licinio	100
16	1954	All Is Possible in Granada	Fernando Ortega	50
17	1954	Murió hace quince años	Diego	47
18	1955	Radio Stories	Gabriel	72
19	1955	Death of a Cyclist	(uncredited)	72
20	1955	El canto del gallo	Padre Miller	50
21	1955	The Miller's Saucy Wife	Cristóbal Paterna	50
22	1955	Revelation	Sergio Gresky	70
23	1956	La gran mentira	César Neira	60
24	1957	Marisa	Antonio	55
25	1957	Saranno uomini	Giacomo	50
26	1957	Whom God Forgives	Juan Cuenca	48
27	1957	The Wide Blue Road	Salvatore	60
28	1957	The Mighty Crusaders	Tancredi d'Altavilla	50
29	1958	Revenge	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	58
30	1958	L'uomo dai calzoni corti	Mario	50
31	1958	Cuenca	Narrator (voice)	65
32	1958	La noche y el alba	Pedro	56
33	1959	Nazarin	Father Nazario	77
34	1959	Diez fusiles esperan	José Iribarren	50
35	1959	Two Men in Town	Superintendente	0
36	1959	Sonatas	Marqués Javier de Bradomín	46
37	1960	Trío de damas	Alberto Sáinz Robledo	47
38	1960	Cavalcata selvaggia		0
39	1960	El hombre de la isla	Lorenzo 'El Moro'	55
40	1961	Hijo de hombre		60
41	1961	The Hand in the Trap	Cristóbal Archaval	64
42	1961	At Five in the Afternoon	Juan Reyes	50
43	1961	Pigeon Shoot	Elia	72
44	1961	Azahares rojos	Arturo Gómez Mancera	50
45	1962	Viridiana	Jorge	76
46	1962	L'Eclisse	Riccardo	77
47	1962	The Female: Seventy Times Seven	Pascual	59
48	1962	I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo	Fra Diavolo	58
49	1963	Mathias Sandorf	Frédéric de Rotenbourg	60
50	1963	Summer Night	Bernardo	59
51	1963	Autopsia de un criminal	Carlos	50
52	1963	The Reunion	Alberto	60
53	1964	The Big Hit	Michel Arland	64
54	1964	Weeping for a Bandit	José María 'El Tempranillo'	51
55	1964	The Other Woman	Zaylor	0
56	1965	Intimidad de los parques	Héctor	48
57	1965	The Devil Also Cries	Tomás	58
58	1965	España insólita	(voice)	60
59	1965	Currito de la Cruz	Manuel Carmona	50
60	1965	The Blue Panther	Paco Castillo	49
61	1965	Legacy of the Incas	Gambusino	58
62	1965	María Rosa		72
63	1966	The Nun	Dom Morel	72
64	1966	Hoy como ayer	Ramón	0
65	1966	Don Juan Tenorio	Don Juan Tenorio	0
66	1966	Camino del Rocío	José Antonio	54
67	1967	The Witches	Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")	61
68	1967	Long Days of Vengeance	Sheriff Douglas	58
69	1967	Belle de Jour	Hyppolite	74
70	1967	Oscuros sueños de agosto	Julio	49
71	1967	Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes	Rodrigo Cervantes	75
72	1968	Bloody Che Contra	Che Guevara	79
73	1968	Les Anges exterminés		0
74	1968	After the Deluge	Pedro	58
75	1969	Blood in the Bullring	Juan Carmona	50
76	1969	Spain Again	Reportero	58
77	1969	Un adulterio decente	Conserje (uncredited)	15
78	1969	Simon Bolivar	José Antonio Del Llano	55
79	1969	The Challenges	Carlos	52
80	1969	Eagles Over London	Martin	63
81	1970	Laia		0
82	1970	Diario Spagnolo	Él mismo	0
83	1970	Ann and Eve	Francesco	40
84	1970	Cutting Heads	Díaz II	43
85	1971	Exorcism's Daughter	Fuso	46
86	1971	The Big Black Sow	Il Medico	0
87	1971	El apartamento de la tentación	Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)	50
88	1971	Goya: A Story of Solitude	Goya	73
89	1972	Nada menos que todo un hombre	Alejandro Gómez	60
90	1972	It Can Be Done Amigo	Sheriff	57
91	1972	Le soldat Laforêt	Paco	70
92	1972	N.P. - The Secret	Ingegnere N.P.	65
93	1972	Planet Venus	Party chauffer	0
94	1973	The Guerrilla	El Cabrero (The Shepherd)	20
95	1973	La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea	Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea	80
96	1973	La colonna infame	Giacomo Mora - il barbiere	60
97	1973	La otra imagen		0
98	1973	Counselor at Crime	Vincent Garofalo	56
99	1974	Death Will Have Your Eyes	The Blackmailer	38
100	1974	Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar	Self (uncredited)	58
101	1974	It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game	Tío	44
102	1974	Tormento	Agustín Caballero	48
103	1974	The Tempter	Bishop Marquez	54
104	1975	Fight to the Death	Comisario Emilio Mendoza	35
105	1975	La peccatrice	Turco	30
106	1975	C.I.A. Secret Story	Mehdi Ben Barka	58
107	1975	The Dead Man	Azevedo Bandeira	50
108	1975	The City of World	Matteo	0
109	1975	Eye of the Cat	Eminenza	45
110	1975	Blanca's Weddings	Antonio	50
111	1976	Emilia... parada y fonda		43
112	1976	The Long Vacations of '36	Teacher	60
113	1976	The Desert of the Tartars	M.llo Tronk	68
114	1977	Sorcerer	Nilo	74
115	1977	I Am the Law	Albanese the Outlaw	68
116	1977	Io sono mia	Padre di Orio	49
117	1978	Hotel Fear	Marta's lover	58
118	1978	Stay As You Are	Lorenzo	58
119	1978	Corleone	Don Giusto Provenzano	73
120	1979	Hunted City	Don Alfonso	54
121	1979	El buscón	Mata	50
122	1980	The Rebel	Tony	41
123	1980	Vultures Over the City	Bender	54
124	1980	Under Siege	William Lombard	48
125	1980	El gran secreto	Domingo	0
126	1980	Speed Driver	Esposito	48
127	1980	Nightmare City	Major Warren Holmes	57
128	1981	Reborn	Giacomo	41
129	1982	The Beehive	Ricardo Sorbedo	65
130	1983	Salzillo	Salzillo	0
131	1983	Treasure of the Four Crowns	Sócrates	41
132	1983	Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble	Coronel Márquez	0
133	1983	Crooks	Ginés Jiménez Valera	54
134	1983	Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17	Coronel Márquez	20
135	1984	Un delitto		0
136	1984	Epilogue	Rocabruno	48
137	1984	Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa	Coronel Márquez	0
138	1984	Coarse Salt	Gabino	50
139	1984	The Holy Innocents	Azarías	78
140	1984	Los zancos	Manuel	67
141	1985	The Lost Paradise	El político anciano	62
142	1985	Futuro Imperfecto		0
143	1985	Our Father	Abel	46
144	1985	Bohemian Nights	Max Estrella	57
145	1985	La vieja música	Domingo Ferreiro	50
146	1985	Marbella	Juan	43
147	1985	The Witching Hour	Cesar	44
148	1985	Scapegoat	Comisario Cárdenas	0
149	1986	History	Remo	69
150	1986	Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)	Guaglione	59
151	1986	Tiempo de silencio	Muecas	50
152	1986	El hermano bastardo de Dios		50
153	1986	El disputado voto del señor Cayo	Señor Cayo	53
154	1987	Divine Words	Pedro Gailo	54
155	1987	Il mistero del panino assassino	Arno dei conti Vincini	0
156	1988	A Time of Destiny	Jorge Larraneta	48
157	1988	Scent of a Crime	Coronel Olvera	43
158	1989	Buñuel	Self	0
159	1989	Torquemada	Torquemada	80
160	1989	Baroque	El Hispano	56
161	1989	The White Dove	Domingo	60
162	1990	Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	Máximo Espejo	69
163	1990	Manuel, le fils emprunté	Juan Alvarez	63
164	1991	La taberna fantástica	Rogelio	0
165	1992	Ni contigo ni sin ti		0
166	1992	The Man Who Lost His Shadow	Antonio	53
167	1993	La Lola se va a los puertos	Don Diego	49
168	1994	La mujer cualquiera		0
169	1995	Felicidades, Tovarich	Abuelo	0
170	1995	One Hundred and One Nights	Luis Buñuel (voice)	62
171	1995	The Lame Pigeon		50
172	1995	On Earth as It Is in Heaven	San Pedro	53
173	1996	Oedipus Mayor	Tiresias	52
174	1997	Day and Night	Cristobal	22
175	1997	Airbag	Villambrosa	65
176	1997	Little Bird	El Abuelo	61
177	1997	Little Miracles	Don Francisco	55
178	1997	La novia de medianoche	Wenceslao Corredoira	0
179	1998	Water Easy Reach		64
180	1998	Divine	Papá Basilio	49
181	1998	Talk of Angels	Don Jorge	59
182	1999	Goya in Bordeaux	Goya	61
183	2000	Speaking of Buñuel	Self	59
184	2000	Peixe-Lua	Tio Nini	54
185	2000	Divertimento		100
186	2001	Nights of Constantinople		10
187	2001	Lázaro de Tormes	El Ciego	52
188	2001	Just Run!	Don Vicente	0
189	2001	Dagon	Ezequiel	61
190	2002	Zero/infinito	(voice)	0
191	2002	The Revolution on Two Horses	Zio Henrique	48

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	Il giovane Garibaldi	Bento Gonçalvez	0
2	1980	Fortunata and Jacinta	José Izquierdo	58
3	1981	Cervantes	Mateo Alemán	65
4	1983	Los Desastres de la Guerra	Francisco de Goya	0
5	1984	Teresa de Jesús	Alonso	54
6	1989	Juncal	José Álvarez "Juncal"	60
7	1991	Imágenes perdidas	Himself - Narrator	0
8	1993	Truhanes	Ginés Giménez	40