Francisco Rabal

Born: 1926-03-08 in Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain

Died: 2001-08-29

Known For: Acting

Biography

Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 – 29 August 2001), popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous accolades both in Spain and abroad, including the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award and the Goya Award for Best Actor. Rabal was best known internationally for his collaborations with director Luis Buñuel, with Ronald Bergan writing "most of his other major roles he carried the heady, perverse whiff of the great surrealist director with him." He worked with many other notable directors, including Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, William Friedkin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Claude Chabrol, Luchino Visconti, and Gillo Pontecorvo. One of Spain's most-loved and acclaimed actors during his lifetime, he also was known for his commitment to human rights and other social causes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francisco Rabal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

1997

Little Miracles as Don Francisco
Little Bird as El Abuelo
Airbag as Villambrosa
La novia de medianoche as Wenceslao Corredoira
Day and Night as Cristobal

1996

Oedipus Mayor as Tiresias

1995

One Hundred and One Nights as Luis Buñuel (voice)
On Earth as It Is in Heaven as San Pedro
The Lame Pigeon as Tío Ricardo
Felicidades, Tovarich as Abuelo

1994

La mujer cualquiera

1993

Truhanes as Ginés Giménez
La Lola se va a los puertos as Don Diego

1992

Paco, mi padre
Ni contigo ni sin ti
The Man Who Lost His Shadow as Antonio

1991

The Other
Imágenes perdidas as Himself - Narrator
La taberna fantástica as Rogelio

1990

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! as Máximo Espejo
Manuel, le fils emprunté as Juan Alvarez

1989

Juncal as José Álvarez "Juncal"
Baroque as El Hispano
The White Dove as Domingo
Buñuel as Self
Torquemada as Torquemada

1988

A Time of Destiny as Jorge Larraneta
Scent of a Crime as Coronel Olvera

1987

Divine Words as Pedro Gailo
Il mistero del panino assassino as Arno dei conti Vincini

1986

History as Remo
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) as Guaglione
El hermano bastardo de Dios
El disputado voto del señor Cayo as Señor Cayo
Tiempo de silencio as Muecas

1985

La vieja música as Domingo Ferreiro
Our Father as Abel
Marbella as Juan
The Witching Hour as Cesar
The Lost Paradise as El político anciano
Bohemian Nights as Max Estrella
Scapegoat as Comisario Cárdenas

1984

Teresa de Jesús as Alonso
Epilogue as Rocabruno
The Holy Innocents as Azarías
The Stilts as Manuel
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa as Coronel Márquez
Un delitto as Abbot
Coarse Salt as Gabino

1983

Crooks as Ginés Jiménez Valera
Los desastres de la guerra as Goya
Treasure of the Four Crowns as Sócrates
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble as Coronel Márquez
Salzillo as Salzillo
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 as Coronel Márquez

1982

The Beehive as Ricardo Sorbedo

1981

Cervantes as Mateo Alemán
Reborn as Giacomo
Vultures Over the City as Bender

1980

Fortunata and Jacinta as José Izquierdo
Nightmare City as Major Warren Holmes
Traficantes Del Panico as William Lombard
El gran secreto as Domingo
Speed Driver as Esposito
The Rebel as Tony

1979

El buscón as Mata
Hunted City as Don Alfonso
Ciao Cialtroni! as Fra' Giovanni

1978

Stay as You Are as Lorenzo
Hotel Fear as Marta's lover
Corleone as Don Giusto Provenzano

1977

Sorcerer as Nilo
I Am the Law as Albanese the Outlaw
Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Io sono mia as Padre di Orio

1976

The Desert of the Tartars as M.llo Tronk
The Long Vacations of '36 as Teacher
Emilia... parada y fonda

1975

Fight to the Death as Comisario Emilio Mendoza
C.I.A. Secret Story as Mehdi Ben Barka
Eye of the Cat as Eminenza
The Dead Man as Azevedo Bandeira
Blanca's Weddings as Antonio
La peccatrice as Turco
The City of World as Matteo

1974

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game as Tío
Il giovane Garibaldi as Bento Gonçalvez
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar as Self (uncredited)
The Tempter as Bishop Marquez
Death Will Have Your Eyes as The Blackmailer
Tormento as Agustín Caballero

1973

Counselor at Crime as Vincent Garofalo
La otra imagen
The Guerrilla as El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea as Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
La colonna infame as Giacomo Mora - il barbiere

1972

It Can Be Done Amigo as Sheriff Franciscus
Planet Venus as Party chauffer
Le Soldat Laforêt as Paco
N.P. - The Secret as Ingegnere N.P.
Nada menos que todo un hombre as Alejandro Gómez

1971

El apartamento de la tentación as Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
Goya: A Story of Solitude as Goya
The Big Black Sow as Il Medico
Exorcism's Daughter as Fuso

1970

Ann and Eve as Francesco
Cutting Heads as Díaz II
Laia
Diario Spagnolo as Él mismo

1969

Eagles Over London as Martin
Spain Again as Reportero
Simón Bolívar as José Antonio Del Llano
Un adulterio decente as Conserje (uncredited)
Blood in the Bullring as Juan Carmona
The Challenges as Carlos

1968

Christopher Colombus as Christopher Colombus
Bloody Che Contra as Che Guevara
After the Deluge as Pedro
Les Anges exterminés

1967

Belle de Jour as Hyppolite
The Witches as Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
The Nun as Dom Morel
Long Days of Vengeance as Sheriff Douglas
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes as Rodrigo Cervantes
Oscuros sueños de agosto as Julio

1966

Camino del Rocío as José Antonio
Hoy como ayer as Ramón
Don Juan Tenorio as Don Juan Tenorio

1965

María Rosa
The Blue Panther as Paco Castillo
Legacy of the Incas as Gambusino
The Devil Also Cries as Tomás
Intimidad de los parques as Héctor
España insólita as (voice)
Currito de la Cruz as Manuel Carmona

1964

The Big Hit as Michel Arland
The Other Woman as Zaylor
Weeping for a Bandit as José María 'El Tempranillo'

1963

Mathias Sandorf as Frédéric de Rotenbourg
Summer Night as Bernardo
The Reunion as Alberto
Autopsia de un criminal as Carlos

1962

L'Eclisse as Riccardo
Viridiana as Jorge
The Female: Seventy Times Seven as Pascual
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo as Fra Diavolo

1961

Pigeon Shoot as Elia
Azahares rojos as Arturo Gómez Mancera
Hijo de hombre
The Hand in the Trap as Cristóbal Archaval
At Five in the Afternoon as Juan Reyes

1960

Trío de damas as Alberto Sáinz Robledo
El hombre de la isla as Lorenzo 'El Moro'
Cavalcata selvaggia

1959

Nazarín as Father Nazario
Sonatas as Marqués Javier de Bradomín
Diez fusiles esperan as José Iribarren
Two Men in Town as Superintendente

1958

Los clarines del miedo as Aceituno
Cuenca as Narrator (voice)
Revenge as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
L'uomo dai calzoni corti as Mario
La noche y el alba as Pedro

1957

Saranno uomini as Giacomo
The Mighty Crusaders as Tancredi d'Altavilla
Marisa as Antonio
The Wide Blue Road as Salvatore
Whom God Forgives as Juan Cuenca

1956

La gran mentira as César Neira

1955

Death of a Cyclist as (uncredited)
Radio Stories as Gabriel
The Miller's Saucy Wife as Cristóbal Paterna
Revelation as Sergio Gresky
El canto del gallo as Padre Miller

1954

All Is Possible in Granada as Fernando Ortega
Judas' Kiss as Quinto Licinio
Murió hace quince años as Diego

1953

I Was a Parish Priest as Martín
Hay un camino a la derecha as Miguel

1952

Path to the Kingdom as Tomás
María Morena as El Sevillano
Luna de sangre as Pedro Alvareda

1951

1950

La honradez de la cerradura as Ernesto

1948

Alhucemas as Tostado (uncredited)

1947

Don Quixote as (uncredited)

1946

El crimen de Pepe Conde

1942

La rueda de la vida as Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)

1933

Land Without Bread as Narrator (voice)