Francisco Rabal
Acting
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.
TV Shows(10)
Truhanes
Ginés Giménez
1993
Imágenes perdidas
Himself - Narrator
1991
Juncal
José Álvarez "Juncal"
1989
History
Remo
1986
Teresa de Jesús
Alonso
1984
Los desastres de la guerra
Goya
1983
Cervantes
Mateo Alemán
1981
Fortunata and Jacinta
José Izquierdo
1980
Il giovane Garibaldi
Bento Gonçalvez
1974
Christopher Colombus
Christopher Colombus
1968
Movies(195)
The Revolution on Two Horses
Zio Henrique
2002
Zero/infinito
(voice)
2002
Dagon
Ezequiel
2001
Just Run!
Don Vicente
2001
Lázaro de Tormes
El Ciego
2001
Nights of Constantinople
2001
Divertimento
2000
Moonfish
Tio Nini
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
2000
Goya in Bordeaux
Goya
1999
Talk of Angels
Don Jorge
1998
Divine
Papá Basilio
1998
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Self
1998
Water Easy Reach
1998
La novia de medianoche
Wenceslao Corredoira
1997
Little Miracles
Don Francisco
1997
Little Bird
El Abuelo
1997
Airbag
Villambrosa
1997
Day and Night
Cristobal
1997
Oedipus Mayor
Tiresias
1996
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
San Pedro
1995
The Lame Pigeon
Tío Ricardo
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
Luis Buñuel (voice)
1995
Felicidades, Tovarich
Abuelo
1995
La mujer cualquiera
1994
La Lola se va a los puertos
Don Diego
1993
Paco, mi padre
1992
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
Antonio
1992
Ni contigo ni sin ti
1992
The Other
1991
La taberna fantástica
Rogelio
1991
Manuel, le fils emprunté
Juan Alvarez
1990
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Máximo Espejo
1990
The White Dove
Domingo
1989
Baroque
El Hispano
1989
Torquemada
Torquemada
1989
Buñuel
Self
1989
Scent of a Crime
Coronel Olvera
1988
A Time of Destiny
Jorge Larraneta
1988
Il mistero del panino assassino
Arno dei conti Vincini
1987
Divine Words
Pedro Gailo
1987
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
Señor Cayo
1986
El hermano bastardo de Dios
1986
Tiempo de silencio
Muecas
1986
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
Guaglione
1986
Scapegoat
Comisario Cárdenas
1985
The Witching Hour
Cesar
1985
Marbella
Juan
1985
La vieja música
Domingo Ferreiro
1985
Bohemian Nights
Max Estrella
1985
Our Father
Abel
1985
The Lost Paradise
El político anciano
1985
Los zancos
Manuel
1984
Un delitto
Abbot
1984
The Holy Innocents
Azarías
1984
Coarse Salt
Gabino
1984
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Coronel Márquez
1984
Epilogue
Rocabruno
1984
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Coronel Márquez
1983
Crooks
Ginés Jiménez Valera
1983
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Coronel Márquez
1983
Treasure of the Four Crowns
Sócrates
1983
Salzillo
Salzillo
1983
The Beehive
Ricardo Sorbedo
1982
Reborn
Giacomo
1981
Vultures Over the City
Bender
1981
Nightmare City
Major Warren Holmes
1980
Speed Driver
Esposito
1980
El gran secreto
Domingo
1980
Traficantes Del Panico
William Lombard
1980
The Rebel
Tony
1980
El buscón
Mata
1979
Ciao Cialtroni!
Fra' Giovanni
1979
Hunted City
Don Alfonso
1979
Corleone
Don Giusto Provenzano
1978
Stay as You Are
Lorenzo
1978
Hotel Fear
Marta's lover
1978
Io sono mia
Padre di Orio
1977
I Am the Law
Albanese the Outlaw
1977
Sorcerer
Nilo
1977
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977
The Desert of the Tartars
M.llo Tronk
1976
The Long Vacations of '36
Teacher
1976
Emilia... parada y fonda
1976
Blanca's Weddings
Antonio
1975
Eye of the Cat
Eminenza
1975
The City of World
Matteo
1975
C.I.A. Secret Story
Mehdi Ben Barka
1975
The Dead Man
Azevedo Bandeira
1975
La peccatrice
Turco
1975
Fight to the Death
Comisario Emilio Mendoza
1975
The Tempter
Bishop Marquez
1974
Tormento
Agustín Caballero
1974
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
Tío
1974
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
Self (uncredited)
1974
Death Will Have Your Eyes
The Blackmailer
1974
Counselor at Crime
Vincent Garofalo
1973
La otra imagen
1973
La colonna infame
Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
1973
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
1973
The Guerrilla
El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
1973
Planet Venus
Party chauffer
1972
N.P. - The Secret
Ingegnere N.P.
1972
Le Soldat Laforêt
Paco
1972
It Can Be Done Amigo
Sheriff
1972
Nada menos que todo un hombre
Alejandro Gómez
1972
Goya: A Story of Solitude
Goya
1971
El apartamento de la tentación
Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
1971
The Big Black Sow
Il Medico
1971
Exorcism's Daughter
Fuso
1971
Cutting Heads
Díaz II
1970
Ann and Eve
Francesco
1970
Laia
1970
Diario Spagnolo
Él mismo
1970
The Challenges
Carlos
1969
Simón Bolívar
José Antonio Del Llano
1969
Un adulterio decente
Conserje (uncredited)
1969
Spain Again
Reportero
1969
Eagles Over London
Martin
1969
Blood in the Bullring
Juan Carmona
1969
After the Deluge
Pedro
1968
Les Anges exterminés
1968
Bloody Che Contra
Che Guevara
1968
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
Rodrigo Cervantes
1967
The Nun
Dom Morel
1967
Oscuros sueños de agosto
Julio
1967
Belle de Jour
Hyppolite
1967
Long Days of Vengeance
Sheriff Douglas
1967
The Witches
Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
1967
Camino del Rocío
José Antonio
1966
Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio
1966
Hoy como ayer
Ramón
1966
María Rosa
1965
Legacy of the Incas
Gambusino
1965
The Blue Panther
Paco Castillo
1965
Currito de la Cruz
Manuel Carmona
1965
España insólita
(voice)
1965
The Devil Also Cries
Tomás
1965
Intimidad de los parques
Héctor
1965
The Other Woman
Zaylor
1964
Weeping for a Bandit
José María 'El Tempranillo'
1964
The Big Hit
Michel Arland
1964
The Reunion
Alberto
1963
Autopsia de un criminal
Carlos
1963
Summer Night
Bernardo
1963
Mathias Sandorf
Frédéric de Rotenbourg
1963
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
Fra Diavolo
1962
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
Pascual
1962
L'Eclisse
Riccardo
1962
Viridiana
Jorge
1962
Azahares rojos
Arturo Gómez Mancera
1961
Pigeon Shoot
Elia
1961
At Five in the Afternoon
Juan Reyes
1961
The Hand in the Trap
Cristóbal Archaval
1961
Hijo de hombre
1961
El hombre de la isla
Lorenzo 'El Moro'
1960
Trío de damas
Alberto Sáinz Robledo
1960
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960
Sonatas
Marqués Javier de Bradomín
1959
Two Men in Town
Superintendente
1959
Diez fusiles esperan
José Iribarren
1959
Nazarín
Father Nazario
1959
La noche y el alba
Pedro
1958
Cuenca
Narrator (voice)
1958
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
Mario
1958
Revenge
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1958
The Mighty Crusaders
Tancredi d'Altavilla
1957
The Wide Blue Road
Salvatore
1957
Whom God Forgives
Juan Cuenca
1957
Saranno uomini
Giacomo
1957
Marisa
Antonio
1957
La gran mentira
César Neira
1956
Revelation
Sergio Gresky
1955
The Miller's Saucy Wife
Cristóbal Paterna
1955
El canto del gallo
Padre Miller
1955
Death of a Cyclist
(uncredited)
1955
Radio Stories
Gabriel
1955
Murió hace quince años
Diego
1954
All Is Possible in Granada
Fernando Ortega
1954
Judas' Kiss
Quinto Licinio
1954
Hay un camino a la derecha
Miguel
1953
I Was a Parish Priest
Martín
1953
María Morena
El Sevillano
1952
Luna de sangre
Pedro Alvareda
1952
Path to the Kingdom
Tomás
1952
Doubt
Rafael Figueroa
1951
Perseguidos
1951
María Antonia "La Caramba"
1951
La honradez de la cerradura
Ernesto
1950
Alhucemas
Tostado (uncredited)
1948
Don Quixote
(uncredited)
1947
El crimen de Pepe Conde
1946
La rueda de la vida
Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
1942
Land Without Bread
Narrator (voice)
1933
Morte di un bandito
Vito Ribera