From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFrancisco 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 Rabals 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 Rabals best performances came after Francisco Francos 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.Rabals 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.
Hyppolite
Film 1967
Rodrigo Cervantes
Film 1967
William Lombard
Film 1980
Ezequiel
Film 2001
Jorge
Film 1962
The Blackmailer
Film 1974
Riccardo
Film 1962
Martin
Film 1969
Father Nazario
Film 1959
San Pedro
Film 1995
Paolo (segment "La strega bruciata viva")
Film 1967
Dom Morel
Film 1966
Film 1968
Antonio
Film 1992
Francesco
Film 1970
Sheriff
Film 1972
M.llo Tronk
Film 1976
Don Diego
Film 1993
Cristobal
Film 1997
Gambusino
Film 1965
Paco Castillo
Film 1965
Ramón
Film 1966
César Neira
Film 1956
Guaglione
Film 1986
Ernesto
Film 1950
Sheriff Douglas
Film 1967
Martín
Film 1953
Marta's lover
Film 1978
José Antonio
Film 1966
Manuel Carmona
Film 1965
Wenceslao Corredoira
Film 1997
Señor Cayo
Film 1986
Lorenzo 'El Moro'
Film 1960
Diego
Film 1954
Pascual
Film 1962
Juan Carmona
Film 1969
Cristóbal Paterna
Film 1955
Coronel Olvera
Film 1988
Alberto Sáinz Robledo
Film 1960
Tony
Film 1980
Don Alfonso
Film 1979
Miguel
Film 1953
Fuso
Film 1971
Muecas
Film 1986
El Abuelo
Film 1997
Salvatore
Film 1957
Marqués Javier de Bradomín
Film 1959
Gabino
Film 1984
Giacomo
Film 1981
Alberto
Film 1963
Fernando Ortega
Film 1954
Self
Film 2000
Quinto Licinio
Film 1954
Max Estrella
Film 1985
Ginés Jiménez Valera
Film 1983
Superintendente
Film 1959
Fra Diavolo
Film 1962
Don Giusto Provenzano
Film 1978
Tomás
Film 1965
Antonio
Film 1957
Goya
Film 1999
Teacher
Film 1976
José Antonio Del Llano
Film 1969
Díaz II
Film 1970
El Cabrero (The Shepherd)
Film 1973
Comisario Cárdenas
Film 1985
Cesar
Film 1985
Tio Nini
Film 2000
Bishop Marquez
Film 1974
Don Francisco
Film 1997
Carlos
Film 1963
Jorge Larraneta
Film 1988
Film 1970
Esposito
Film 1980
Carlos
Film 1969
Rocabruno
Film 1984
Antonio
Film 1975
Abel
Film 1985
Sócrates
Film 1983
Bernardo
Film 1963
Comisario Emilio Mendoza
Film 1975
Tancredi d'Altavilla
Film 1957
Vincent Garofalo
Film 1973
Agustín Caballero
Film 1974
Juan Cuenca
Film 1957
Turco
Film 1975
José María 'El Tempranillo'
Film 1964
Elia
Film 1961
Che Guevara
Film 1968
Ingegnere N.P.
Film 1972
Lorenzo
Film 1978
Remo
Film 1986
El Hispano
Film 1989
Juan
Film 1985
Film 1995
El político anciano
Film 1985
Film 1992
Ricardo Sorbedo
Film 1982
Tomás
Film 1952
(voice)
Film 1965
Don Vicente
Film 2001
Film 2001
Film 2000
Arno dei conti Vincini
Film 1987
Frédéric de Rotenbourg
Film 1963
Albanese the Outlaw
Film 1977
Film 1973
Party chauffer
Film 1972
Michel Arland
Film 1964
Matteo
Film 1975
Arturo Gómez Mancera
Film 1961
Film 1965
Padre di Orio
Film 1977
(uncredited)
Film 1955
Film 1986
Azarías
Film 1984
Mehdi Ben Barka
Film 1975
Film 1976
Él mismo
Film 1970
Pedro Gailo
Film 1987
Cristóbal Archaval
Film 1961
Bender
Film 1980
Self (uncredited)
Film 1974
Papá Basilio
Film 1998
Mario
Film 1958
José Iribarren
Film 1959
Paco
Film 1972
Narrator (voice)
Film 1958
Sergio Gresky
Film 1955
Domingo
Film 1989
Coronel Márquez
Film 1983
Héctor
Film 1965
Coronel Márquez
Film 1983
Coronel Márquez
Film 1984
Pedro
Film 1968
Domingo
Film 1980
Abuelo
Film 1995
Gabriel
Film 1955
Juan Reyes
Film 1961
Padre Miller
Film 1955
Reportero
Film 1969
Giacomo Mora - il barbiere
Film 1973
Zio Henrique
Film 2002
Manuel
Film 1984
Azevedo Bandeira
Film 1975
Film 1961
Salzillo
Film 1983
Spanish Narrator, 1996 (voice)
Film 1933
Hombre que se cruza con Julieta (uncredited)
Film 1971
Zaylor
Film 1964
Pedro Crespo, Alcalde de Zalamea
Film 1973
Il Medico
Film 1971
Juan Alvarez
Film 1990
(voice)
Film 2002
Self
Film 1989
Goya
Film 1971
Film 1998
Alejandro Gómez
Film 1972
Torquemada
Film 1989
El Ciego
Film 2001
Major Warren Holmes
Film 1980
Mata
Film 1979
Film 1985
Domingo Ferreiro
Film 1985
Film 1960
Don Juan Tenorio
Film 1966
Pedro
Film 1958
Film 1946
Pedro Alvareda
Film 1952
El Sevillano
Film 1952
Rafael Figueroa
Film 1951
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Film 1958
Bronquista de pelea en salón (uncredited)
Film 1942
Giacomo
Film 1957
Tostado (uncredited)
Film 1948
(uncredited)
Film 1947
Conserje (uncredited)
Film 1969
Film 1994
Rogelio
Film 1991
Tiresias
Film 1996
Film 1951
Film 1951
José Izquierdo
Tv 1980
Himself - Narrator
Tv 1991
Bento Gonçalvez
Tv 1974
Ginés Giménez
Tv 1993
Mateo Alemán
Tv 1981
José Álvarez "Juncal"
Tv 1989
Francisco de Goya
Tv 1983
Alonso
Tv 1984