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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 8, 1926
Died
August 29, 2001
Place of Birth
Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
Also Known As
- Paco Rabal
- Франсиско Рабаль
Francisco Rabal
0.9 Popularity
Biography
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
Credits
The Revolution on Two Horses
as Zio Henrique
2002
4.2
Zero/infinito
as (voice)
2002
0.0
Dagon
as Ezequiel
2001
6.1
Just Run!
as Don Vicente
2001
0.0
Lázaro de Tormes
as El Ciego
2001
5.2
Nights of Constantinople
2001
1.0
Divertimento
2000
10.0
Peixe-Lua
as Tio Nini
2000
5.4
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self
2000
5.9
Goya in Bordeaux
as Goya
1999
6.0
Talk of Angels
as Don Jorge
1998
5.4
Divine
as Papá Basilio
1998
5.1
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
as Self
1998
0.0
Water Easy Reach
1998
6.4
La novia de medianoche
as Wenceslao Corredoira
1997
0.0
Little Miracles
as Don Francisco
1997
5.2
Little Bird
as El Abuelo
1997
6.2
Airbag
as Villambrosa
1997
6.5
Day and Night
as Cristobal
1997
2.1
Oedipus Mayor
as Tiresias
1996
5.0
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
as San Pedro
1995
5.6
The Lame Pigeon
as Tío Ricardo
1995
4.3
One Hundred and One Nights
as Luis Buñuel (voice)
1995
6.0
Felicidades, Tovarich
as Abuelo
1995
0.0
La mujer cualquiera
1994
0.0
Truhanes
as Ginés Giménez
1993
4.0
La Lola se va a los puertos
as Don Diego
1993
4.5
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
as Antonio
1992
5.3
🎬
Ni contigo ni sin ti
1992
0.0
The Other
1991
6.5
🎬
Imágenes perdidas
as Himself - Narrator
1991
0.0
La taberna fantástica
as Rogelio
1991
0.0
Manuel, le fils emprunté
as Juan Alvarez
1990
6.3
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
as Máximo Espejo
1990
6.8
The White Dove
as Domingo
1989
6.0
Baroque
as El Hispano
1989
5.1
Torquemada
as Torquemada
1989
8.0
Juncal
as José Álvarez "Juncal"
1989
6.0
Buñuel
as Self
1989
0.0
Scent of a Crime
as Coronel Olvera
1988
3.8
A Time of Destiny
as Jorge Larraneta
1988
4.8
Il mistero del panino assassino
as Arno dei conti Vincini
1987
0.0
Divine Words
as Pedro Gailo
1987
5.0
🎬
History
as Remo
1986
0.0
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
as Señor Cayo
1986
5.5
El hermano bastardo de Dios
1986
5.0
Tiempo de silencio
as Muecas
1986
5.0
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
as Guaglione
1986
5.8
Scapegoat
as Comisario Cárdenas
1985
0.0
The Witching Hour
as Cesar
1985
4.1
Marbella
as Juan
1985
4.3
La vieja música
as Domingo Ferreiro
1985
5.0
Bohemian Nights
as Max Estrella
1985
6.5
Our Father
as Abel
1985
4.3
Futuro Imperfecto
1985
0.0
The Lost Paradise
as El político anciano
1985
6.2
Los zancos
as Manuel
1984
6.5
🎬
Un delitto
as Abbot
1984
0.0
The Holy Innocents
as Azarías
1984
7.8
Teresa de Jesús
as Alonso
1984
5.4
Coarse Salt
as Gabino
1984
5.0
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
as Coronel Márquez
1984
0.0
Epilogue
as Rocabruno
1984
4.8
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
as Coronel Márquez
1983
2.0
Crooks
as Ginés Jiménez Valera
1983
5.4
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
as Coronel Márquez
1983
0.0
Los desastres de la guerra
as Goya
1983
0.0
Treasure of the Four Crowns
as Sócrates
1983
4.1
🎬
Salzillo
as Salzillo
1983
0.0
The Beehive
as Ricardo Sorbedo
1982
6.4
Reborn
as Giacomo
1981
3.9
Cervantes
as Mateo Alemán
1981
6.5
Nightmare City
as Major Warren Holmes
1980
5.7
Speed Driver
as Esposito
1980
4.8
El gran secreto
as Domingo
1980
0.0
Under Siege
as William Lombard
1980
4.8
Fortunata and Jacinta
as José Izquierdo
1980
5.8
The Rebel
as Tony
1980
4.1
Vultures Over the City
as Bender
1980
5.4
El buscón
as Mata
1979
5.5
Ciao Cialtroni!
as Fra' Giovanni
1979
0.0
Hunted City
as Don Alfonso
1979
5.0
Corleone
as Don Giusto Provenzano
1978
7.5
Stay as You Are
as Lorenzo
1978
5.6
Hotel Fear
as Marta's lover
1978
5.5
Io sono mia
as Padre di Orio
1977
4.4
I Am the Law
as Albanese the Outlaw
1977
6.6
Sorcerer
as Nilo
1977
7.4
The Desert of the Tartars
as M.llo Tronk
1976
6.8
The Long Vacations of '36
as Teacher
1976
6.0
Emilia... parada y fonda
1976
3.6
Blanca's Weddings
as Antonio
1975
5.0
Eye of the Cat
as Eminenza
1975
3.6
🎬
The City of World
as Matteo
1975
0.0
C.I.A. Secret Story
as Mehdi Ben Barka
1975
5.8
The Dead Man
as Azevedo Bandeira
1975
5.0
La peccatrice
as Turco
1975
2.7
Fight to the Death
as Comisario Emilio Mendoza
1975
3.5
The Tempter
as Bishop Marquez
1974
5.1
Tormento
as Agustín Caballero
1974
4.2
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
as Tío
1974
3.6
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
as Self (uncredited)
1974
5.8
Il giovane Garibaldi
as Bento Gonçalvez
1974
0.0
Death Will Have Your Eyes
as The Blackmailer
1974
3.4
Counselor at Crime
as Vincent Garofalo
1973
5.3
La otra imagen
1973
0.0
La colonna infame
as Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
1973
6.0
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
as Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
1973
8.0
The Guerrilla
as El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
1973
2.0
Planet Venus
as Party chauffer
1972
0.0
N.P. - The Secret
as Ingegnere N.P.
1972
6.8
Le soldat Laforêt
as Paco
1972
7.0
It Can Be Done Amigo
as Sheriff
1972
5.7
Nada menos que todo un hombre
as Alejandro Gómez
1972
6.0
Goya: A Story of Solitude
as Goya
1971
7.3
El apartamento de la tentación
as Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
1971
5.0
The Big Black Sow
as Il Medico
1971
0.0
Exorcism's Daughter
as Fuso
1971
4.0
Cutting Heads
as Díaz II
1970
4.3
Ann and Eve
as Francesco
1970
2.5
🎬
Laia
1970
0.0
Diario Spagnolo
as Él mismo
1970
0.0
The Challenges
as Carlos
1969
5.2
Simón Bolívar
as José Antonio Del Llano
1969
4.9
Un adulterio decente
as Conserje (uncredited)
1969
1.3
Spain Again
as Reportero
1969
5.8
Eagles Over London
as Martin
1969
6.3
Blood in the Bullring
as Juan Carmona
1969
5.0
After the Deluge
as Pedro
1968
5.8
Les Anges exterminés
1968
0.0
Bloody Che Contra
as Che Guevara
1968
7.8
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
as Rodrigo Cervantes
1967
7.5
The Nun
as Dom Morel
1967
7.1
Oscuros sueños de agosto
as Julio
1967
4.9
Belle de Jour
as Hyppolite
1967
7.3
Long Days of Vengeance
as Sheriff Douglas
1967
5.9
The Witches
as Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
1967
6.0
Camino del Rocío
as José Antonio
1966
5.4
🎬
Don Juan Tenorio
as Don Juan Tenorio
1966
0.0
Hoy como ayer
as Ramón
1966
6.0
María Rosa
1965
7.2
Legacy of the Incas
as Gambusino
1965
6.3
The Blue Panther
as Paco Castillo
1965
4.9
Currito de la Cruz
as Manuel Carmona
1965
5.0
España insólita
as (voice)
1965
6.0
The Devil Also Cries
as Tomás
1965
5.8
Intimidad de los parques
as Héctor
1965
5.0
The Other Woman
as Zaylor
1964
6.0
Weeping for a Bandit
as José María 'El Tempranillo'
1964
5.1
The Big Hit
as Michel Arland
1964
6.4
The Reunion
as Alberto
1963
5.7
Autopsia de un criminal
as Carlos
1963
5.0
Summer Night
as Bernardo
1963
5.9
Mathias Sandorf
as Frédéric de Rotenbourg
1963
5.8
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
as Fra Diavolo
1962
5.8
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
as Pascual
1962
5.9
L'Eclisse
as Riccardo
1962
7.7
Viridiana
as Jorge
1962
7.6
Azahares rojos
as Arturo Gómez Mancera
1961
5.0
Pigeon Shoot
as Elia
1961
7.2
At Five in the Afternoon
as Juan Reyes
1961
5.0
The Hand in the Trap
as Cristóbal Archaval
1961
6.4
Hijo de hombre
1961
7.3
El hombre de la isla
as Lorenzo 'El Moro'
1960
4.7
Trío de damas
as Alberto Sáinz Robledo
1960
4.7
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960
0.0
Sonatas
as Marqués Javier de Bradomín
1959
4.6
Two Men in Town
as Superintendente
1959
0.0
Diez fusiles esperan
as José Iribarren
1959
5.0
Nazarin
as Father Nazario
1959
7.6
La noche y el alba
as Pedro
1958
5.6
Cuenca
as Narrator (voice)
1958
6.5
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
as Mario
1958
5.0
Revenge
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1958
6.0
The Mighty Crusaders
as Tancredi d'Altavilla
1957
5.0
The Wide Blue Road
as Salvatore
1957
6.0
Whom God Forgives
as Juan Cuenca
1957
4.8
Saranno uomini
as Giacomo
1957
4.0
Marisa
as Antonio
1957
5.5
La gran mentira
as César Neira
1956
6.0
Revelation
as Sergio Gresky
1955
7.0
The Miller's Saucy Wife
as Cristóbal Paterna
1955
5.0
El canto del gallo
as Padre Miller
1955
5.0
Death of a Cyclist
as (uncredited)
1955
7.1
Radio Stories
as Gabriel
1955
7.2
Murió hace quince años
as Diego
1954
4.7
All Is Possible in Granada
as Fernando Ortega
1954
5.0
Judas' Kiss
as Quinto Licinio
1954
10.0
Hay un camino a la derecha
as Miguel
1953
5.8
I Was a Parish Priest
as Martín
1953
7.0
María Morena
as El Sevillano
1952
0.0
Luna de sangre
as Pedro Alvareda
1952
4.3
Path to the Kingdom
as Tomás
1952
0.0
Doubt
as Rafael Figueroa
1951
8.0
Perseguidos
1951
0.0
María Antonia "La Caramba"
1951
0.0
La honradez de la cerradura
as Ernesto
1950
6.4
Alhucemas
as Tostado (uncredited)
1948
0.0
Don Quixote
as (uncredited)
1947
5.8
El crimen de Pepe Conde
1946
4.0
La rueda de la vida
as Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
1942
6.0
Land Without Bread
as Narrator (voice)
1933
7.1