
Francisco Rabal
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.
206 acting credits
Acting · 206

Sorcerer
1977

Belle de Jour
1967

Il giovane Garibaldi
1974

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1990

Dagon
2001

Fortunata and Jacinta
1980

L'Eclisse
1962

Viridiana
1962

Stay as You Are
1978

One Hundred and One Nights
1995

Cervantes
1981

The Witches
1967

Nazarín
1959

Little Bird
1997

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
1967

Eagles Over London
1969

The Desert of the Tartars
1976

Airbag
1997

Teresa de Jesús
1984

Land Without Bread
1933

Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1986

I Am the Law
1977

The Nun
1967

Los desastres de la guerra
1983

Truhanes
1993
Imágenes perdidas
1991

Don Quixote
1947

On Earth as It Is in Heaven
1995

Talk of Angels
1998

Nightmare City
1980

Hotel Fear
1978

It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
1974

Goya in Bordeaux
1999

It Can Be Done Amigo
1972

Juncal
1989

Nada menos que todo un hombre
1972

Revenge
1958

Speaking of Buñuel
2000

Counselor at Crime
1973

The Blue Panther
1965

A Time of Destiny
1988

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
1977

Speed Driver
1980

Corleone
1978

Oedipus Mayor
1996

The Beehive
1982

Treasure of the Four Crowns
1983

Simón Bolívar
1969

The Holy Innocents
1984

El hombre de la isla
1960

Fight to the Death
1975

La gran mentira
1956

Just Run!
2001

Oscuros sueños de agosto
1967

Io sono mia
1977

Death of a Cyclist
1955

Day and Night
1997

Pigeon Shoot
1961

Tiempo de silencio
1986

Marbella
1985

Legacy of the Incas
1965

Eye of the Cat
1975

The Mighty Crusaders
1957

Tormento
1974

Mathias Sandorf
1963

El canto del gallo
1955

The Other
1991

Sonatas
1959

Summer Night
1963

History
1986

C.I.A. Secret Story
1975

The Long Vacations of '36
1976

Hoy como ayer
1966

Epilogue
1984

Los zancos
1984

The Reunion
1963

Our Father
1985

Ann and Eve
1970

Divine Words
1987

Blood in the Bullring
1969

I Was a Parish Priest
1953

Traficantes Del Panico
1980

Two Men in Town
1959

The Challenges
1969

The Man Who Lost His Shadow
1992

Coarse Salt
1984

Death Will Have Your Eyes
1974

The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955

La novia de medianoche
1997

Marisa
1957

Christopher Colombus
1968

Scent of a Crime
1988

Baroque
1989

Cutting Heads
1970

Long Days of Vengeance
1967

La rueda de la vida
1942

Reborn
1981

The Big Hit
1964

Moonfish
2000

The Tempter
1974

La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
1973

At Five in the Afternoon
1961

Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
1984

Saranno uomini
1957

Bloody Che Contra
1968

Hunted City
1979

L'uomo dai calzoni corti
1958

The Wide Blue Road
1957

Cuenca
1958

Cavalcata selvaggia
1960

El disputado voto del señor Cayo
1986

All Is Possible in Granada
1954

Weeping for a Bandit
1964

Buñuel
1989

Ni contigo ni sin ti
1992

Radio Stories
1955

The Big Black Sow
1971

El apartamento de la tentación
1971

The Witching Hour
1985

Crooks
1983

Path to the Kingdom
1952

Planet Venus
1972

María Antonia "La Caramba"
1951

El crimen de Pepe Conde
1946

Felicidades, Tovarich
1995

María Rosa
1965

Camino del Rocío
1966

Murió hace quince años
1954

Zero/infinito
2002

The White Dove
1989

The Rebel
1980

Vultures Over the City
1981

Diez fusiles esperan
1959

Spain Again
1969

Azahares rojos
1961

Little Miracles
1997

Goya: A Story of Solitude
1971

After the Deluge
1968

Manuel, le fils emprunté
1990

Exorcism's Daughter
1971

Laia
1970

Un adulterio decente
1969

N.P. - The Secret
1972

The Guerrilla
1973

Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
1974

The Hand in the Trap
1961

Whom God Forgives
1957

La colonna infame
1973

La peccatrice
1975

La Lola se va a los puertos
1993

Water Easy Reach
1998

The Lame Pigeon
1995

La noche y el alba
1958

The Dead Man
1975

La honradez de la cerradura
1950

Hay un camino a la derecha
1953

Doubt
1951

Alhucemas
1948

The Female: Seventy Times Seven
1962

La vieja música
1985

Les paradoxes de Buñuel
1998

Luna de sangre
1952

Intimidad de los parques
1965

Judas' Kiss
1954

España insólita
1965

María Morena
1952

Revelation
1955

The Lost Paradise
1985

Lázaro de Tormes
2001

Ciao Cialtroni!
1979
Don Juan Tenorio
1966

Trío de damas
1960

La taberna fantástica
1991

Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
1983

Currito de la Cruz
1965

Blanca's Weddings
1975
Un delitto
1984

Torquemada
1989

El buscón
1979

La mujer cualquiera
1994

Scapegoat
1985

Le Soldat Laforêt
1972

The Devil Also Cries
1965

Nights of Constantinople
2001

The Revolution on Two Horses
2002

Divine
1998

Emilia... parada y fonda
1976

I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
1962

Autopsia de un criminal
1963

Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
1983

El hermano bastardo de Dios
1986

Bohemian Nights
1985
Morte di un bandito
—

Il mistero del panino assassino
1987

Divertimento
2000

Hijo de hombre
1961

Les Anges exterminés
1968

Los clarines del miedo
1958

The Other Woman
1964

El gran secreto
1980

Perseguidos
1951
The City of World
1975
Salzillo
1983

Paco, mi padre
1992

Diario Spagnolo
1970

La otra imagen
1973