Francisco 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.
Known For
Hyppolite
Belle de jour
Rodrigo Cervantes
Cervantes
Máximo Espejo
¡Átame!
William Lombard
Traficantes de pánico
Ezequiel
Dagon
Jorge
Viridiana
The Blackmailer
La moglie giovane
Riccardo
L'eclisse
Martin
La battaglia d'Inghilterra
Father Nazario
Nazarín
San Pedro
Así en el Cielo como en la Tierra
Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Le streghe
Dom Morel
La Religieuse
Les Anges exterminés
Antonio
L'Homme qui a perdu son ombre
Francesco
Ann och Eve - de erotiska
Nilo
Sorcerer
Sheriff
Si può fare… amigo
M.llo Tronk
Il deserto dei Tartari
Don Diego
La Lola se va a los puertos
Cristobal
Le Jour et la Nuit
Gambusino
Das Vermächtnis des Inka
Paco Castillo
Marie Chantal contre Dr. Kha
Don Jorge
Talk of Angels
Ramón
Hoy como ayer
César Neira
La gran mentira
Ernesto
La honradez de la cerradura
Sheriff Douglas
I lunghi giorni della vendetta
Martín
La guerra de Dios
Marta's lover
Pensione paura
José Antonio
Camino del Rocío
Manuel Carmona
Currito de la Cruz
Wenceslao Corredoira
La novia de medianoche
Señor Cayo
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
Lorenzo 'El Moro'
El hombre de la isla
Diego
Murió hace quince años
Pascual
Setenta veces siete
Juan Carmona
Sangre en el ruedo
Cristóbal Paterna
La pícara molinera
Coronel Olvera
El aire de un crimen
Alberto Sáinz Robledo
Trío de damas
Tony
Poliziotto, solitudine e rabbia
Don Alfonso
Sbirro, la tua legge è lenta... la mia... no!
Miguel
Hay un camino a la derecha
Fuso
Las melancólicas
Muecas
Tiempo de silencio
El Abuelo
Pajarico
Salvatore
La grande strada azzurra
Marqués Javier de Bradomín
Sonatas
Gabino
Sal gorda
Giacomo
Reborn
Alberto
La Rimpatriata
Fernando Ortega
Todo es posible en Granada
Self
A propósito de Buñuel
Quinto Licinio
El beso de Judas
Max Estrella
Luces de Bohemia
Ginés Jiménez Valera
Truhanes
Superintendente
Llegaron dos hombres
Fra Diavolo
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
Don Giusto Provenzano
Corleone
Tomás
El diablo también llora
Antonio
Marisa la civetta
Goya
Goya en Burdeos
Teacher
Las largas vacaciones del 36
José Antonio Del Llano
Simón Bolívar
Díaz II
Cabezas cortadas
El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
La guerrilla
Comisario Cárdenas
Escapada final (Scapegoat)
Cesar
La hora bruja
Tio Nini
Peixe-Lua
Bishop Marquez
Il sorriso del grande tentatore
Don Francisco
Pequeños milagros
Carlos
Autopsia de un criminal
Jorge Larraneta
A Time of Destiny
Laia
Esposito
Speed Driver
Carlos
Los desafíos
Rocabruno
Epílogo
Antonio
Las bodas de Blanca
Abel
Padre nuestro
Sócrates
El tesoro de las cuatro coronas
Villambrosa
Airbag
Bernardo
Noche de verano
Comisario Emilio Mendoza
Metralleta 'Stein'
Tancredi d'Altavilla
La Gerusalemme liberata
Vincent Garofalo
Il consigliori
Agustín Caballero
Tormento
Juan Cuenca
Amanecer en Puerta Oscura
Turco
La peccatrice
José María 'El Tempranillo'
Llanto por un bandido
Elia
Tiro al piccione
Che Guevara
El ''Che'' Guevara
Ingegnere N.P.
N.P. - Il segreto
Lorenzo
Così come sei
Remo
La storia
El Hispano
Barroco
Juan
Marbella, un golpe de cinco estrellas
El palomo cojo
El político anciano
Los paraísos perdidos
Ni contigo ni sin ti
Ricardo Sorbedo
La colmena
Tomás
Sor Intrépida
(voice)
España insólita
Don Vicente
¿Tú qué harías por amor?
Las noches de Constantinopla
Divertimento
Arno dei conti Vincini
Il mistero del panino assassino
Frédéric de Rotenbourg
Mathias Sandorf
Albanese the Outlaw
Il prefetto di ferro
La otra imagen
Party chauffer
Pianeta Venere
Michel Arland
Le gros coup
Julio
Oscuros sueños de agosto
Matteo
Le città del mondo
Arturo Gómez Mancera
Azahares rojos
María Rosa
Padre di Orio
Io sono mia
(uncredited)
Muerte de un ciclista
El hermano bastardo de Dios
Azarías
Los santos inocentes
Mehdi Ben Barka
Faccia di spia
Emilia... parada y fonda
Él mismo
Diario Spagnolo
Pedro Gailo
Divinas palabras
Cristóbal Archaval
La mano en la trampa
Tío
No es nada, mamá, sólo un juego
Bender
Buitres sobre la ciudad
Self (uncredited)
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
Papá Basilio
El evangelio de las maravillas
Mario
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
José Iribarren
Diez fusiles esperan
Paco
Le soldat Laforêt
Narrator (voice)
Cuenca
Sergio Gresky
Prigionieri del male
Domingo
La blanca paloma
Coronel Márquez
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Héctor
Intimidad de los parques
Coronel Márquez
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Coronel Márquez
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Pedro
Después del diluvio
Domingo
El gran secreto
Abuelo
Felicidades, Tovarich
Gabriel
Historias de la radio
Juan Reyes
A las cinco de la tarde
Padre Miller
El canto del gallo
Reportero
España otra vez
Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
La colonna infame
Zio Henrique
Alla rivoluzione sulla due cavalli
Manuel
Los zancos
Azevedo Bandeira
Cacique Bandeira
Eminenza
Attenti al buffone
Hijo de hombre
Salzillo
Salzillo
Spanish Narrator, 1996 (voice)
Las Hurdes
Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
El apartamento de la tentación
Zaylor
L'Autre Femme
Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
Il Medico
La grande scrofa nera
Juan Alvarez
Manuel, le fils emprunté
(voice)
Zero/infinito
Self
Buñuel
Goya
Goya: historia de una soledad
Luis Buñuel (voice)
Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
En dag til i solen
Alejandro Gómez
Nada menos que todo un hombre
Torquemada
Torquemada
El Ciego
Lázaro de Tormes
Major Warren Holmes
Incubo sulla città contaminata
Mata
El buscón
Futuro Imperfecto
Domingo Ferreiro
La vieja música
Cavalcata selvaggia
Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan Tenorio
Pedro
La noche y el alba
El crimen de Pepe Conde
Pedro Alvareda
Luna de sangre
El Sevillano
María Morena
Rafael Figueroa
Duda
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
La venganza
Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
La rueda de la vida
Giacomo
Saranno uomini
Tostado (uncredited)
Alhucemas
(uncredited)
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Conserje (uncredited)
Un adulterio decente
La mujer cualquiera
Rogelio
La taberna fantástica
Tiresias
Edipo alcalde
María Antonia "La Caramba"
Perseguidos
Un delitto
L'autre
Guaglione
Un complicato intrigo di donne, vicoli e delitti
Fra' Giovanni
Ciao Cialtroni!
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
193
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-03-08
Place of Birth
Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
Also Known As
Paco Rabal