Cast
Francisco Rabal
Acting
Cast
Francisco Rabal
Known for
Acting
Born
1926-03-08
From
Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
Died
2001-08-29
Also known as Paco Rabal
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.
Les Anges exterminés
Sorcerer
as Nilo
Belle de Jour
as Hyppolite
Dagon
as Ezequiel
L'Eclisse
as Riccardo
Land Without Bread
as Narrator (voice)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
as Máximo Espejo
The Other
Viridiana
as Jorge
Stay as You Are
as Lorenzo
The Guerrilla
as El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
Little Bird
as El Abuelo
Nazarín
as Father Nazario
One Hundred and One Nights
as Luis Buñuel (voice)
The Witches
as Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Corleone
as Don Giusto Provenzano
Airbag
as Villambrosa
Speed Driver
as Esposito
The Desert of the Tartars
as M.llo Tronk
Our Father
as Abel
Coarse Salt
as Gabino
The Stilts
as Manuel
Saranno uomini
as Giacomo
Oedipus Mayor
as Tiresias
Felicidades, Tovarich
as Abuelo
Buñuel
as Self
Traficantes Del Panico
as William Lombard
Marisa
as Antonio
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
as Rodrigo Cervantes
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
as Guaglione
The Beehive
as Ricardo Sorbedo
Eagles Over London
as Martin
It Can Be Done Amigo
as Sheriff
El buscón
as Mata
Sonatas
as Marqués Javier de Bradomín
Nightmare City
as Major Warren Holmes
Eye of the Cat
as Eminenza
Counselor at Crime
as Vincent Garofalo
Epilogue
as Rocabruno
A Time of Destiny
as Jorge Larraneta
Divine Words
as Pedro Gailo
Long Days of Vengeance
as Sheriff Douglas
The Nun
as Dom Morel
Alhucemas
as Tostado (uncredited)
I Am the Law
as Albanese the Outlaw
Simón Bolívar
as José Antonio Del Llano
La gran mentira
as César Neira
Fight to the Death
as Comisario Emilio Mendoza
Hotel Fear
as Marta's lover
Death of a Cyclist
as (uncredited)
Goya in Bordeaux
as Goya
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
as Tío
Revenge
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Path to the Kingdom
as Tomás
Camino del Rocío
as José Antonio
Reborn
as Giacomo
The Holy Innocents
as Azarías
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
as San Pedro
The Dead Man
as Azevedo Bandeira
Tiempo de silencio
as Muecas
The Blue Panther
as Paco Castillo
Revelation
as Sergio Gresky
Ann and Eve
as Francesco
Legacy of the Incas
as Gambusino
Treasure of the Four Crowns
as Sócrates
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self
Talk of Angels
as Don Jorge
Mathias Sandorf
as Frédéric de Rotenbourg
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
as Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
Laia
Weeping for a Bandit
as José María 'El Tempranillo'
Spain Again
as Reportero
The Tempter
as Bishop Marquez
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
as Fra Diavolo
Hoy como ayer
as Ramón
Cutting Heads
as Díaz II
The Wide Blue Road
as Salvatore
Lázaro de Tormes
as El Ciego
The White Dove
as Domingo
Oscuros sueños de agosto
as Julio
La vieja música
as Domingo Ferreiro
Trío de damas
as Alberto Sáinz Robledo
The Reunion
as Alberto
Blood in the Bullring
as Juan Carmona
Azahares rojos
as Arturo Gómez Mancera
Baroque
as El Hispano
The Rebel
as Tony
El apartamento de la tentación
as Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
Zero/infinito
as (voice)
Pigeon Shoot
as Elia
The Witching Hour
as Cesar
La peccatrice
as Turco
Tormento
as Agustín Caballero
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
as Señor Cayo
Summer Night
as Bernardo
Judas' Kiss
as Quinto Licinio
The Lame Pigeon
as Tío Ricardo
All Is Possible in Granada
as Fernando Ortega
N.P. - The Secret
as Ingegnere N.P.
The Other Woman
as Zaylor
Don Quixote
as (uncredited)
The Mighty Crusaders
as Tancredi d'Altavilla
Intimidad de los parques
as Héctor
Vultures Over the City
as Bender
Io sono mia
as Padre di Orio
Goya: A Story of Solitude
as Goya
Hunted City
as Don Alfonso
Radio Stories
as Gabriel
La Lola se va a los puertos
as Don Diego
El canto del gallo
as Padre Miller
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
as Coronel Márquez
The Challenges
as Carlos
La novia de medianoche
as Wenceslao Corredoira
El gran secreto
as Domingo
The Big Black Sow
as Il Medico
The Miller's Saucy Wife
as Cristóbal Paterna
Exorcism's Daughter
as Fuso
Planet Venus
as Party chauffer
The Big Hit
as Michel Arland
Cavalcata selvaggia
Bloody Che Contra
as Che Guevara
Murió hace quince años
as Diego
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
as Coronel Márquez
Day and Night
as Cristobal
The Revolution on Two Horses
as Zio Henrique
Il mistero del panino assassino
as Arno dei conti Vincini
Bohemian Nights
as Max Estrella
The Lost Paradise
as El político anciano
El crimen de Pepe Conde
Divine
as Papá Basilio
La colonna infame
as Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
as Pascual
María Antonia "La Caramba"
The Devil Also Cries
as Tomás
C.I.A. Secret Story
as Mehdi Ben Barka
Emilia... parada y fonda
Marbella
as Juan
Death Will Have Your Eyes
as The Blackmailer
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
as Antonio
María Morena
as El Sevillano
Don Juan Tenorio
as Don Juan Tenorio
At Five in the Afternoon
as Juan Reyes
Autopsia de un criminal
as Carlos
Un adulterio decente
as Conserje (uncredited)
Water Easy Reach
Just Run!
as Don Vicente
The Hand in the Trap
as Cristóbal Archaval
Los clarines del miedo
as Aceituno
Divertimento
Ciao Cialtroni!
as Fra' Giovanni
Scapegoat
as Comisario Cárdenas
El hermano bastardo de Dios
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
as Coronel Márquez
The Long Vacations of '36
as Teacher
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
as Self (uncredited)
Le Soldat Laforêt
as Paco
Hay un camino a la derecha
as Miguel
Torquemada
as Torquemada
After the Deluge
as Pedro
Perseguidos
Diez fusiles esperan
as José Iribarren
Moonfish
as Tio Nini
Doubt
as Rafael Figueroa
Un delitto
as Abbot
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
as Mario
Ni contigo ni sin ti
Blanca's Weddings
as Antonio
Crooks
as Ginés Jiménez Valera
Currito de la Cruz
as Manuel Carmona
María Rosa
Little Miracles
as Don Francisco
Whom God Forgives
as Juan Cuenca
Scent of a Crime
as Coronel Olvera
Hijo de hombre
La honradez de la cerradura
as Ernesto
La noche y el alba
as Pedro
La mujer cualquiera
I Was a Parish Priest
as Martín
La rueda de la vida
as Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
Morte di un bandito
as Vito Ribera
Cuenca
as Narrator (voice)
Two Men in Town
as Superintendente
Luna de sangre
as Pedro Alvareda
Nada menos que todo un hombre
as Alejandro Gómez
España insólita
as (voice)
Nights of Constantinople
El hombre de la isla
as Lorenzo 'El Moro'
Manuel, le fils emprunté
as Juan Alvarez
The City of World
as Matteo
Diario Spagnolo
as Él mismo
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
as Self
La taberna fantástica
as Rogelio
Salzillo
as Salzillo
Paco, mi padre
