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