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