10.0
10.0
Judas' Kiss
1954
as Quinto Licinio
Francisco Rabal
Also known as: Paco Rabal
Acting
Born:March 8, 1926
Died:August 29, 2001(aged 75)
Birthplace:Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
Nationality:Spain
Education:Our Lady of Remembrance College
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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.
Filmography (188 movies)
10.0
10.0
Divertimento
2000
8.0
8.0
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
1973
as Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
8.0
8.0
Torquemada
1989
as Torquemada
8.0
8.0
Doubt
1951
as Rafael Figueroa
7.8
7.8
The Holy Innocents
1984
as Azarías
7.8
7.8
Bloody Che Contra
1968
as Che Guevara
7.7
7.7
L'Eclisse
1962
as Riccardo
7.6
7.6
Viridiana
1962
as Jorge
7.6
7.6
Nazarin
1959
as Father Nazario
7.5
7.5
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
1967
as Rodrigo Cervantes
7.5
7.5
Sorcerer
1977
as Nilo
7.3
7.3
Corleone
1978
as Don Giusto Provenzano
7.3
7.3
Goya: A Story of Solitude
1971
as Goya
7.3
7.3
Belle de Jour
1967
as Hyppolite
7.3
7.3
Hijo de hombre
1961
7.2
7.2
Radio Stories
1955
as Gabriel
7.2
7.2
María Rosa
1965
7.2
7.2
Pigeon Shoot
1961
as Elia
7.1
7.1
The Nun
1967
as Dom Morel
7.1
7.1
Land Without Bread
1933
as Narrator (voice)
7.0
7.0
I Was a Parish Priest
1953
as Martín
7.0
7.0
Revelation
1955
as Sergio Gresky
7.0
7.0
Le soldat Laforêt
1972
as Paco
6.9
6.9
La Storia
1986
as Remo
6.9
6.9
The Hand in the Trap
1961
as Cristóbal Archaval
6.8
6.8
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
as M.llo Tronk
6.8
6.8
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1990
as Máximo Espejo
6.8
6.8
N.P. - The Secret
1972
as Ingegnere N.P.
6.6
6.6
I Am the Law
1977
as Albanese the Outlaw
6.5
6.5
Airbag
1997
as Villambrosa
6.5
6.5
The Other
1991
6.5
6.5
Cuenca
1958
as Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
Los zancos
1984
as Manuel
6.5
6.5
Bohemian Nights
1985
as Max Estrella
6.4
6.4
La honradez de la cerradura
1950
as Ernesto
6.4
6.4
The Big Hit
1964
as Michel Arland
6.4
6.4
Water Easy Reach
1998
6.4
6.4
The Beehive
1982
as Ricardo Sorbedo
6.3
6.3
Eagles Over London
1969
as Martin
6.3
6.3
Manuel, le fils emprunté
1990
as Juan Alvarez
6.2
6.2
Legacy of the Incas
1965
as Gambusino
6.2
6.2
The Lost Paradise
1985
as El político anciano
6.2
6.2
Little Bird
1997
as El Abuelo
6.1
6.1
Dagon
2001
as Ezequiel
6.0
6.0
The Witches
1967
as Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
6.0
6.0
España insólita
1965
as (voice)
6.0
6.0
La gran mentira
1956
as César Neira
6.0
6.0
La rueda de la vida
1942
as Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
Revenge
1958
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
The Wide Blue Road
1957
as Salvatore
6.0
6.0
Hoy como ayer
1966
as Ramón
6.0
6.0
Goya in Bordeaux
1999
as Goya
6.0
6.0
The Long Vacations of '36
1976
as Teacher
6.0
6.0
The White Dove
1989
as Domingo
6.0
6.0
La colonna infame
1973
as Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
6.0
6.0
Nada menos que todo un hombre
1972
as Alejandro Gómez
5.9
5.9
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
as Self
5.9
5.9
Long Days of Vengeance
1967
as Sheriff Douglas
5.9
5.9
Summer Night
1963
as Bernardo
5.9
5.9
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
1962
as Pascual
5.8
5.8
After the Deluge
1968
as Pedro
5.8
5.8
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
1962
as Fra Diavolo
5.8
5.8
Hay un camino a la derecha
1953
as Miguel
5.8
5.8
Mathias Sandorf
1963
as Frédéric de Rotenbourg
5.8
5.8
The Devil Also Cries
1965
as Tomás
5.8
5.8
C.I.A. Secret Story
1975
as Mehdi Ben Barka
5.8
5.8
Spain Again
1969
as Reportero
5.8
5.8
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1986
as Guaglione
5.7
5.7
The Reunion
1963
as Alberto
5.7
5.7
It Can Be Done Amigo
1972
as Sheriff
5.7
5.7
Nightmare City
1980
as Major Warren Holmes
5.6
5.6
Stay as You Are
1978
as Lorenzo
5.6
5.6
La noche y el alba
1958
as Pedro
5.6
5.6
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
1995
as San Pedro
5.5
5.5
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
1986
as Señor Cayo
5.5
5.5
Hotel Fear
1978
as Marta's lover
5.5
5.5
Marisa
1957
as Antonio
5.5
5.5
El hombre de la isla
1960
as Lorenzo 'El Moro'
5.4
5.4
Talk of Angels
1998
as Don Jorge
5.4
5.4
Camino del Rocío
1966
as José Antonio
5.4
5.4
Crooks
1983
as Ginés Jiménez Valera
5.4
5.4
Peixe-Lua
2000
as Tio Nini
5.4
5.4
Vultures Over the City
1980
as Bender
5.3
5.3
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
1992
as Antonio
5.3
5.3
Counselor at Crime
1973
as Vincent Garofalo
5.2
5.2
Little Miracles
1997
as Don Francisco
5.2
5.2
The Challenges
1969
as Carlos
5.2
5.2
Lázaro de Tormes
2001
as El Ciego
5.1
5.1
Baroque
1989
as El Hispano
5.1
5.1
Weeping for a Bandit
1964
as José María 'El Tempranillo'
5.1
5.1
Divine
1998
as Papá Basilio
5.1
5.1
The Tempter
1974
as Bishop Marquez
5.0
5.0
The Dead Man
1975
as Azevedo Bandeira
5.0
5.0
Currito de la Cruz
1965
as Manuel Carmona
5.0
5.0
Azahares rojos
1961
as Arturo Gómez Mancera
5.0
5.0
All Is Possible in Granada
1954
as Fernando Ortega
5.0
5.0
El hermano bastardo de Dios
1986
5.0
5.0
Coarse Salt
1984
as Gabino
5.0
5.0
Hunted City
1979
as Don Alfonso
5.0
5.0
Intimidad de los parques
1965
as Héctor
5.0
5.0
Oedipus Mayor
1996
as Tiresias
5.0
5.0
Tiempo de silencio
1986
as Muecas
5.0
5.0
The Mighty Crusaders
1957
as Tancredi d'Altavilla
5.0
5.0
El buscón
1979
as Mata
5.0
5.0
Diez fusiles esperan
1959
as José Iribarren
5.0
5.0
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
1958
as Mario
5.0
5.0
El canto del gallo
1955
as Padre Miller
5.0
5.0
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955
as Cristóbal Paterna
5.0
5.0
Blood in the Bullring
1969
as Juan Carmona
5.0
5.0
El apartamento de la tentación
1971
as Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
Divine Words
1987
as Pedro Gailo
5.0
5.0
At Five in the Afternoon
1961
as Juan Reyes
5.0
5.0
La vieja música
1985
as Domingo Ferreiro
5.0
5.0
Autopsia de un criminal
1963
as Carlos
5.0
5.0
Blanca's Weddings
1975
as Antonio
4.9
4.9
The Blue Panther
1965
as Paco Castillo
4.9
4.9
Oscuros sueños de agosto
1967
as Julio
4.9
4.9
Simon Bolivar
1969
as José Antonio Del Llano
4.8
4.8
Speed Driver
1980
as Esposito
4.8
4.8
Epilogue
1984
as Rocabruno
4.8
4.8
Whom God Forgives
1957
as Juan Cuenca
4.8
4.8
A Time of Destiny
1988
as Jorge Larraneta
4.8
4.8
Under Siege
1980
as William Lombard
4.7
4.7
Trío de damas
1960
as Alberto Sáinz Robledo
4.7
4.7
Murió hace quince años
1954
as Diego
4.6
4.6
Sonatas
1959
as Marqués Javier de Bradomín
4.5
4.5
La Lola se va a los puertos
1993
as Don Diego
4.4
4.4
Io sono mia
1977
as Padre di Orio
4.3
4.3
The Lame Pigeon
1995
as Tío Ricardo
4.3
4.3
Marbella
1985
as Juan
4.3
4.3
Our Father
1985
as Abel
4.3
4.3
Cutting Heads
1970
as Díaz II
4.3
4.3
Luna de sangre
1952
as Pedro Alvareda
4.2
4.2
The Revolution on Two Horses
2002
as Zio Henrique
4.2
4.2
Tormento
1974
as Agustín Caballero
4.1
4.1
The Witching Hour
1985
as Cesar
4.1
4.1
The Rebel
1980
as Tony
4.1
4.1
Treasure of the Four Crowns
1983
as Sócrates
4.0
4.0
Exorcism's Daughter
1971
as Fuso
4.0
4.0
Saranno uomini
1957
as Giacomo
4.0
4.0
El crimen de Pepe Conde
1946
3.9
3.9
Reborn
1981
as Giacomo
3.8
3.8
Scent of a Crime
1988
as Coronel Olvera
3.6
3.6
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
1974
as Tío
3.6
3.6
Eye of the Cat
1975
as Eminenza
3.5
3.5
Emilia... parada y fonda
1976
3.5
3.5
Fight to the Death
1975
as Comisario Emilio Mendoza
3.4
3.4
Death Will Have Your Eyes
1974
as The Blackmailer
2.7
2.7
La peccatrice
1975
as Turco
2.5
2.5
Ann and Eve
1970
as Francesco
2.1
2.1
Day and Night
1997
as Cristobal
2.0
2.0
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
1983
as Coronel Márquez
2.0
2.0
The Guerrilla
1973
as El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
1.0
1.0
Nights of Constantinople
2001
Futuro Imperfecto
1985
María Morena
1952
as El Sevillano
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
1983
as Coronel Márquez
Diario Spagnolo
1970
as Él mismo
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
1984
as Coronel Márquez
El gran secreto
1980
as Domingo
Felicidades, Tovarich
1995
as Abuelo
Scapegoat
1985
as Comisario Cárdenas
The Other Woman
1964
as Zaylor
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
1998
as Self
Salzillo
1983
as Salzillo
María Antonia "La Caramba"
1951
Buñuel
1989
as Self
Path to the Kingdom
1952
as Tomás
Just Run!
2001
as Don Vicente
La taberna fantástica
1991
as Rogelio
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960
Don Juan Tenorio
1966
as Don Juan Tenorio
The Big Black Sow
1971
as Il Medico
Il mistero del panino assassino
1987
as Arno dei conti Vincini
La mujer cualquiera
1994
Ciao Cialtroni!
1979
as Fra' Giovanni
Les Anges exterminés
1968
Two Men in Town
1959
as Superintendente
Ni contigo ni sin ti
1992
Perseguidos
1951
The City of World
1975
as Matteo
La novia de medianoche
1997
as Wenceslao Corredoira
La otra imagen
1973
Planet Venus
1972
as Party chauffer
Un delitto
1984
as Abbot
Zero/infinito
2002
as (voice)
Laia
1970
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