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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.
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Filmography (Movies)
The Revolution on Two Horses
Character:Zio Henrique
Release Date:25/04/2002
Zero/infinito
Character:(voice)
Release Date:01/01/2002
Dagon
Character:Ezequiel
Release Date:12/10/2001
Just Run!
Character:Don Vicente
Release Date:28/06/2001
Lázaro de Tormes
Character:El Ciego
Release Date:19/01/2001
Nights of Constantinople
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2001
Divertimento
Character:
Release Date:22/10/2000
Moonfish
Character:Tio Nini
Release Date:29/09/2000
Speaking of Buñuel
Character:Self
Release Date:09/06/2000
Goya in Bordeaux
Character:Goya
Release Date:04/09/1999
Talk of Angels
Character:Don Jorge
Release Date:30/10/1998
Divine
Character:Papá Basilio
Release Date:16/09/1998
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Character:Self
Release Date:29/04/1998
Water Easy Reach
Character:
Release Date:06/03/1998
La novia de medianoche
Character:Wenceslao Corredoira
Release Date:30/10/1997
Little Miracles
Character:Don Francisco
Release Date:04/09/1997
Little Bird
Character:El Abuelo
Release Date:31/08/1997
Airbag
Character:Villambrosa
Release Date:20/06/1997
Day and Night
Character:Cristobal
Release Date:12/02/1997
Oedipus Mayor
Character:Tiresias
Release Date:23/08/1996
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
Character:San Pedro
Release Date:03/11/1995
The Lame Pigeon
Character:Tío Ricardo
Release Date:06/10/1995
One Hundred and One Nights
Character:Luis Buñuel (voice)
Release Date:25/01/1995
Felicidades, Tovarich
Character:Abuelo
Release Date:01/01/1995
La mujer cualquiera
Character:
Release Date:06/10/1994
La Lola se va a los puertos
Character:Don Diego
Release Date:10/09/1993
Paco, mi padre
Character:
Release Date:18/10/1992
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
Character:Antonio
Release Date:15/01/1992
Ni contigo ni sin ti
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1992
The Other
Character:
Release Date:09/10/1991
La taberna fantástica
Character:Rogelio
Release Date:13/07/1991
Manuel, le fils emprunté
Character:Juan Alvarez
Release Date:09/02/1990
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Character:Máximo Espejo
Release Date:22/01/1990
The White Dove
Character:Domingo
Release Date:23/11/1989
Baroque
Character:El Hispano
Release Date:10/10/1989
Torquemada
Character:Torquemada
Release Date:12/05/1989
Buñuel
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1989
Scent of a Crime
Character:Coronel Olvera
Release Date:21/10/1988
A Time of Destiny
Character:Jorge Larraneta
Release Date:22/04/1988
Il mistero del panino assassino
Character:Arno dei conti Vincini
Release Date:28/10/1987
Divine Words
Character:Pedro Gailo
Release Date:15/09/1987
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
Character:Señor Cayo
Release Date:03/11/1986
El hermano bastardo de Dios
Character:
Release Date:10/09/1986
Tiempo de silencio
Character:Muecas
Release Date:13/03/1986
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
Character:Guaglione
Release Date:24/01/1986
Scapegoat
Character:Comisario Cárdenas
Release Date:14/11/1985
The Witching Hour
Character:Cesar
Release Date:04/11/1985
Marbella
Character:Juan
Release Date:13/10/1985
La vieja música
Character:Domingo Ferreiro
Release Date:26/09/1985
Bohemian Nights
Character:Max Estrella
Release Date:21/08/1985
Our Father
Character:Abel
Release Date:21/04/1985
Futuro Imperfecto
Character:
Release Date:28/01/1985
The Lost Paradise
Character:El político anciano
Release Date:13/01/1985
Los zancos
Character:Manuel
Release Date:10/10/1984
Un delitto
Character:Abbot
Release Date:01/09/1984
The Holy Innocents
Character:Azarías
Release Date:04/04/1984
Coarse Salt
Character:Gabino
Release Date:06/02/1984
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Character:Coronel Márquez
Release Date:03/02/1984
Epilogue
Character:Rocabruno
Release Date:20/01/1984
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Character:Coronel Márquez
Release Date:06/12/1983
Crooks
Character:Ginés Jiménez Valera
Release Date:21/09/1983
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Character:Coronel Márquez
Release Date:09/09/1983
Treasure of the Four Crowns
Character:Sócrates
Release Date:21/01/1983
Salzillo
Character:Salzillo
Release Date:01/01/1983
The Beehive
Character:Ricardo Sorbedo
Release Date:11/10/1982
Reborn
Character:Giacomo
Release Date:27/09/1981
Vultures Over the City
Character:Bender
Release Date:01/01/1981
Nightmare City
Character:Major Warren Holmes
Release Date:11/12/1980
Speed Driver
Character:Esposito
Release Date:04/12/1980
El gran secreto
Character:Domingo
Release Date:12/10/1980
Under Siege
Character:William Lombard
Release Date:08/08/1980
The Rebel
Character:Tony
Release Date:01/01/1980
El buscón
Character:Mata
Release Date:27/11/1979
Ciao Cialtroni!
Character:Fra' Giovanni
Release Date:23/11/1979
Hunted City
Character:Don Alfonso
Release Date:27/09/1979
Corleone
Character:Don Giusto Provenzano
Release Date:10/11/1978
Stay as You Are
Character:Lorenzo
Release Date:14/09/1978
Hotel Fear
Character:Marta's lover
Release Date:16/02/1978
Io sono mia
Character:Padre di Orio
Release Date:18/11/1977
I Am the Law
Character:Albanese the Outlaw
Release Date:23/09/1977
Sorcerer
Character:Nilo
Release Date:24/06/1977
The Desert of the Tartars
Character:M.llo Tronk
Release Date:29/10/1976
The Long Vacations of '36
Character:Teacher
Release Date:28/10/1976
Emilia... parada y fonda
Character:
Release Date:15/08/1976
Blanca's Weddings
Character:Antonio
Release Date:17/11/1975
Eye of the Cat
Character:Eminenza
Release Date:19/10/1975
The City of World
Character:Matteo
Release Date:16/10/1975
C.I.A. Secret Story
Character:Mehdi Ben Barka
Release Date:21/08/1975
The Dead Man
Character:Azevedo Bandeira
Release Date:21/08/1975
La peccatrice
Character:Turco
Release Date:20/07/1975
Fight to the Death
Character:Comisario Emilio Mendoza
Release Date:27/01/1975
The Tempter
Character:Bishop Marquez
Release Date:22/11/1974
Tormento
Character:Agustín Caballero
Release Date:02/09/1974
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
Character:Tío
Release Date:29/05/1974
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:15/05/1974
Death Will Have Your Eyes
Character:The Blackmailer
Release Date:01/01/1974
Counselor at Crime
Character:Vincent Garofalo
Release Date:30/08/1973
La otra imagen
Character:
Release Date:16/06/1973
La colonna infame
Character:Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
Release Date:19/04/1973
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
Character:Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
Release Date:13/04/1973
The Guerrilla
Character:El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
Release Date:16/02/1973
Planet Venus
Character:Party chauffer
Release Date:27/08/1972
N.P. - The Secret
Character:Ingegnere N.P.
Release Date:26/07/1972
Le soldat Laforêt
Character:Paco
Release Date:21/04/1972
It Can Be Done Amigo
Character:Sheriff
Release Date:31/03/1972
Nada menos que todo un hombre
Character:Alejandro Gómez
Release Date:14/02/1972
Goya: A Story of Solitude
Character:Goya
Release Date:07/06/1971
El apartamento de la tentación
Character:Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
Release Date:24/05/1971
The Big Black Sow
Character:Il Medico
Release Date:13/04/1971
Exorcism's Daughter
Character:Fuso
Release Date:01/01/1971
Cutting Heads
Character:Díaz II
Release Date:16/10/1970
Ann and Eve
Character:Francesco
Release Date:03/08/1970
Laia
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1970
Diario Spagnolo
Character:Él mismo
Release Date:01/01/1970
The Challenges
Character:Carlos
Release Date:19/09/1969
Simón Bolívar
Character:José Antonio Del Llano
Release Date:12/09/1969
Un adulterio decente
Character:Conserje (uncredited)
Release Date:25/08/1969
Spain Again
Character:Reportero
Release Date:07/06/1969
Eagles Over London
Character:Martin
Release Date:04/06/1969
Blood in the Bullring
Character:Juan Carmona
Release Date:19/05/1969
After the Deluge
Character:Pedro
Release Date:25/01/1968
Les Anges exterminés
Character:
Release Date:15/01/1968
Bloody Che Contra
Character:Che Guevara
Release Date:01/01/1968
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
Character:Rodrigo Cervantes
Release Date:02/11/1967
The Nun
Character:Dom Morel
Release Date:26/07/1967
Oscuros sueños de agosto
Character:Julio
Release Date:01/07/1967
Belle de Jour
Character:Hyppolite
Release Date:24/05/1967
Long Days of Vengeance
Character:Sheriff Douglas
Release Date:23/02/1967
The Witches
Character:Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Release Date:22/02/1967
Camino del Rocío
Character:José Antonio
Release Date:05/12/1966
Don Juan Tenorio
Character:Don Juan Tenorio
Release Date:02/11/1966
Hoy como ayer
Character:Ramón
Release Date:29/08/1966
María Rosa
Character:
Release Date:13/11/1965
Legacy of the Incas
Character:Gambusino
Release Date:08/09/1965
The Blue Panther
Character:Paco Castillo
Release Date:25/08/1965
Currito de la Cruz
Character:Manuel Carmona
Release Date:01/07/1965
España insólita
Character:(voice)
Release Date:13/05/1965
The Devil Also Cries
Character:Tomás
Release Date:14/03/1965
Intimidad de los parques
Character:Héctor
Release Date:03/03/1965
The Other Woman
Character:Zaylor
Release Date:04/09/1964
Weeping for a Bandit
Character:José María 'El Tempranillo'
Release Date:31/08/1964
The Big Hit
Character:Michel Arland
Release Date:24/06/1964
The Reunion
Character:Alberto
Release Date:19/09/1963
Autopsia de un criminal
Character:Carlos
Release Date:05/08/1963
Summer Night
Character:Bernardo
Release Date:03/06/1963
Mathias Sandorf
Character:Frédéric de Rotenbourg
Release Date:13/02/1963
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
Character:Fra Diavolo
Release Date:11/10/1962
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
Character:Pascual
Release Date:30/08/1962
L'Eclisse
Character:Riccardo
Release Date:13/04/1962
Viridiana
Character:Jorge
Release Date:01/04/1962
Azahares rojos
Character:Arturo Gómez Mancera
Release Date:01/11/1961
Pigeon Shoot
Character:Elia
Release Date:25/05/1961
At Five in the Afternoon
Character:Juan Reyes
Release Date:16/05/1961
The Hand in the Trap
Character:Cristóbal Archaval
Release Date:01/05/1961
Hijo de hombre
Character:
Release Date:16/01/1961
El hombre de la isla
Character:Lorenzo 'El Moro'
Release Date:07/07/1960
Trío de damas
Character:Alberto Sáinz Robledo
Release Date:01/01/1960
Cavalcata selvaggia
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1960
Sonatas
Character:Marqués Javier de Bradomín
Release Date:12/10/1959
Two Men in Town
Character:Superintendente
Release Date:22/06/1959
Diez fusiles esperan
Character:José Iribarren
Release Date:15/06/1959
Nazarín
Character:Father Nazario
Release Date:04/06/1959
La noche y el alba
Character:Pedro
Release Date:10/10/1958
Cuenca
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/07/1958
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
Character:Mario
Release Date:23/06/1958
Revenge
Character:Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:02/05/1958
The Mighty Crusaders
Character:Tancredi d'Altavilla
Release Date:23/12/1957
The Wide Blue Road
Character:Salvatore
Release Date:22/11/1957
Whom God Forgives
Character:Juan Cuenca
Release Date:05/05/1957
Saranno uomini
Character:Giacomo
Release Date:23/03/1957
Marisa
Character:Antonio
Release Date:19/03/1957
La gran mentira
Character:César Neira
Release Date:01/04/1956
Revelation
Character:Sergio Gresky
Release Date:30/12/1955
The Miller's Saucy Wife
Character:Cristóbal Paterna
Release Date:05/12/1955
El canto del gallo
Character:Padre Miller
Release Date:26/09/1955
Death of a Cyclist
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:07/09/1955
Radio Stories
Character:Gabriel
Release Date:25/07/1955
Murió hace quince años
Character:Diego
Release Date:04/10/1954
All Is Possible in Granada
Character:Fernando Ortega
Release Date:08/03/1954
Judas' Kiss
Character:Quinto Licinio
Release Date:27/02/1954
Hay un camino a la derecha
Character:Miguel
Release Date:28/10/1953
I Was a Parish Priest
Character:Martín
Release Date:30/09/1953
María Morena
Character:El Sevillano
Release Date:02/06/1952
Luna de sangre
Character:Pedro Alvareda
Release Date:18/02/1952
Path to the Kingdom
Character:Tomás
Release Date:04/01/1952
Doubt
Character:Rafael Figueroa
Release Date:08/10/1951
Perseguidos
Character:
Release Date:31/05/1951
María Antonia "La Caramba"
Character:
Release Date:24/03/1951
La honradez de la cerradura
Character:Ernesto
Release Date:08/06/1950
Alhucemas
Character:Tostado (uncredited)
Release Date:06/02/1948
Don Quixote
Character:(uncredited)
Release Date:01/03/1947
El crimen de Pepe Conde
Character:
Release Date:28/10/1946
La rueda de la vida
Character:Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
Release Date:30/11/1942
Land Without Bread
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/12/1933
Television Appearances
Truhanes
Character:Ginés Giménez
Imágenes perdidas
Character:Himself - Narrator
Juncal
Character:José Álvarez "Juncal"
History
Character:Remo
Teresa de Jesús
Character:Alonso
Los desastres de la guerra
Character:Goya
Cervantes
Character:Mateo Alemán
Fortunata and Jacinta
Character:José Izquierdo
Il giovane Garibaldi
Character:Bento Gonçalvez
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