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
2002
- The Revolution on Two Horses as Zio Henrique
- Zero/infinito as (voice)
2001
- Dagon as Ezequiel
- Just Run! as Don Vicente
- Lázaro de Tormes as El Ciego
- Nights of Constantinople
2000
- Speaking of Buñuel as Self
- Divertimento
- Moonfish as Tio Nini
1999
- Goya in Bordeaux as Goya
1998
- Talk of Angels as Don Jorge
- Les paradoxes de Buñuel as Self
- Divine as Papá Basilio
- Water Easy Reach
1997
- Day and Night as Cristobal
- Little Miracles as Don Francisco
- Airbag as Villambrosa
- Little Bird as El Abuelo
- La novia de medianoche as Wenceslao Corredoira
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
1993
- Truhanes as Ginés Giménez
- La Lola se va a los puertos as Don Diego
1992
1991
- Imágenes perdidas as Himself - Narrator
- The Other
- La taberna fantástica as Rogelio
1990
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! as Máximo Espejo
- Manuel, le fils emprunté as Juan Alvarez
1989
- Baroque as El Hispano
- Juncal as José Álvarez "Juncal"
- The White Dove as Domingo
- Torquemada as Torquemada
- Buñuel as Self
1988
- A Time of Destiny as Jorge Larraneta
- Scent of a Crime as Coronel Olvera
1987
- Il mistero del panino assassino as Arno dei conti Vincini
- Divine Words as Pedro Gailo
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
- Our Father as Abel
- Marbella as Juan
- La vieja música as Domingo Ferreiro
- The Witching Hour as Cesar
- Bohemian Nights as Max Estrella
- The Lost Paradise as El político anciano
- Scapegoat as Comisario Cárdenas
1984
- Teresa de Jesús as Alonso
- The Holy Innocents as Azarías
- Epilogue as Rocabruno
- Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa as Coronel Márquez
- The Stilts as Manuel
- Coarse Salt as Gabino
- Un delitto as Abbot
1983
- Los desastres de la guerra as Goya
- Crooks as Ginés Jiménez Valera
- Treasure of the Four Crowns as Sócrates
- Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble as Coronel Márquez
- Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 as Coronel Márquez
- Salzillo as Salzillo
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
- Under Siege as William Lombard
- Speed Driver as Esposito
- The Rebel as Tony
- El gran secreto as Domingo
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
- Emilia... parada y fonda
- The Long Vacations of '36 as Teacher
1975
- Fight to the Death as Comisario Emilio Mendoza
- Eye of the Cat as Eminenza
- C.I.A. Secret Story as Mehdi Ben Barka
- Blanca's Weddings as Antonio
- The City of World as Matteo
- La peccatrice as Turco
- The Dead Man as Azevedo Bandeira
1974
- Il giovane Garibaldi as Bento Gonçalvez
- It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game as Tío
- The Tempter as Bishop Marquez
- Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar as Self (uncredited)
- Death Will Have Your Eyes as The Blackmailer
- Tormento as Agustín Caballero
1973
- The Counsellor as Vincent Garofalo
- La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea as Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
- The Guerrilla as El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
- La colonna infame as Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
- La otra imagen
1972
- It Can Be Done Amigo as Sheriff Franciscus
- Planet Venus as Party chauffer
- Nada menos que todo un hombre as Alejandro Gómez
- N.P. - The Secret as Ingegnere N.P.
- Le Soldat Laforêt as Paco
1971
- El apartamento de la tentación as Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
- The Big Black Sow as Il Medico
- Goya: A Story of Solitude as Goya
- Exorcism's Daughter as Fuso
1970
- Ann and Eve as Francesco
- Laia
- Cutting Heads as Díaz II
- Diario Spagnolo as Él mismo
1969
- Eagles Over London as Martin
- Blood in the Bullring as Juan Carmona
- Spain Again as Reportero
- Simón Bolívar as José Antonio Del Llano
- Un adulterio decente as Conserje (uncredited)
- The Challenges as Carlos
1968
- Christopher Colombus as Christopher Colombus
- Bloody Che Contra as Che Guevara
- Les Anges exterminés
- After the Deluge as Pedro
1967
- Belle de Jour as Hyppolite
- The Witches as Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
- Long Days of Vengeance as Sheriff Douglas
- The Nun as Dom Morel
- Oscuros sueños de agosto as Julio
- Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes as Rodrigo Cervantes
1966
- Camino del Rocío as José Antonio
- Don Juan Tenorio as Don Juan Tenorio
- Hoy como ayer as Ramón
1965
- Legacy of the Incas as Gambusino
- The Blue Panther as Paco Castillo
- María Rosa
- The Devil Also Cries as Tomás
- Intimidad de los parques as Héctor
- Currito de la Cruz as Manuel Carmona
- España insólita as (voice)
1964
- Weeping for a Bandit as José María 'El Tempranillo'
- The Big Hit as Michel Arland
- The Other Woman as Zaylor
1963
- Summer Night as Bernardo
- Autopsia de un criminal as Carlos
- Mathias Sandorf as Frédéric de Rotenbourg
- The Reunion as Alberto
1962
- L'Eclisse as Riccardo
- Viridiana as Jorge
- I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo as Fra Diavolo
- The Female: Seventy Times Seven as Pascual
1961
- The Hand in the Trap as Cristóbal Archaval
- Pigeon Shoot as Elia
- At Five in the Afternoon as Juan Reyes
- Azahares rojos as Arturo Gómez Mancera
- Hijo de hombre
1960
- El hombre de la isla as Lorenzo 'El Moro'
- Trío de damas as Alberto Sáinz Robledo
- 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
- L'uomo dai calzoni corti as Mario
- La noche y el alba as Pedro
- Cuenca as Narrator (voice)
- Los clarines del miedo as Aceituno
- Revenge as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1957
- The Wide Blue Road as Salvatore
- Whom God Forgives as Juan Cuenca
- The Mighty Crusaders as Tancredi d'Altavilla
- Saranno uomini as Giacomo
- Marisa as Antonio
1956
- La gran mentira as César Neira
1955
- Death of a Cyclist as (uncredited)
- Radio Stories as Gabriel
- El canto del gallo as Padre Miller
- The Miller's Saucy Wife as Cristóbal Paterna
- Revelation as Sergio Gresky
1954
- All Is Possible in Granada as Fernando Ortega
- Murió hace quince años as Diego
- Judas' Kiss as Quinto Licinio
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
- Doubt as Rafael Figueroa
- Perseguidos
- María Antonia "La Caramba"
1950
- La honradez de la cerradura as Ernesto
1948
- Alhucemas as Tostado (uncredited)
1947
- Don Quixote as (uncredited)
1942
- La rueda de la vida as Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
1933
- Land Without Bread as Narrator (voice)