Francisco Rabal
1926-03-08 ( 99 years old ) in Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain

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.

Movies

The Revolution on Two Horses 2002-04-25
Zero/infinito 2002-01-01
Dagon 2001-10-12
Just Run! 2001-06-28
Lázaro de Tormes 2001-01-19
Nights of Constantinople 2001-01-01
Divertimento 2000-10-22
Peixe-Lua 2000-09-29
Speaking of Buñuel 2000-06-09
Goya in Bordeaux 1999-09-04
Talk of Angels 1998-10-30
Divine 1998-09-16
Water Easy Reach 1998-03-06
La novia de medianoche 1997-10-30
Little Miracles 1997-09-04
Little Bird 1997-08-31
Airbag 1997-06-20
Day and Night 1997-02-12
Oedipus Mayor 1996-08-23
On Earth as It Is in Heaven 1995-11-03
The Lame Pigeon 1995-10-06
One Hundred and One Nights 1995-01-25
Felicidades, Tovarich 1995-01-01
La mujer cualquiera 1994-10-06
La Lola se va a los puertos 1993-09-10
The Man Who Lost His Shadow 1992-01-15
Ni contigo ni sin ti 1992-01-01
The Other 1991-10-09
La taberna fantástica 1991-07-13
Manuel, le fils emprunté 1990-02-09
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1990-01-22
The White Dove 1989-11-23
Baroque 1989-10-10
Torquemada 1989-05-12
Buñuel 1989-01-01
Scent of a Crime 1988-10-21
A Time of Destiny 1988-04-22
Il mistero del panino assassino 1987-10-28
Divine Words 1987-09-15
El disputado voto del señor Cayo 1986-11-03
El hermano bastardo de Dios 1986-09-10
Tiempo de silencio 1986-03-13
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) 1986-01-24
History 1986-01-02
Scapegoat 1985-11-14
The Witching Hour 1985-11-04
Marbella 1985-10-13
La vieja música 1985-09-26
Bohemian Nights 1985-08-21
Our Father 1985-04-21
Futuro Imperfecto 1985-01-28
The Lost Paradise 1985-01-13
Los zancos 1984-10-10
The Holy Innocents 1984-04-04
Coarse Salt 1984-02-06
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa 1984-02-03
Epilogue 1984-01-20
Un delitto 1984-01-01
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 1983-12-06
Crooks 1983-09-21
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble 1983-09-09
Treasure of the Four Crowns 1983-01-21
Salzillo 1983-01-01
The Beehive 1982-10-11
Reborn 1981-09-27
Nightmare City 1980-12-11
Speed Driver 1980-12-04
El gran secreto 1980-10-12
Under Siege 1980-08-08
The Rebel 1980-01-01
Vultures Over the City 1980-01-01
El buscón 1979-11-27
Ciao Cialtroni! 1979-11-23
Hunted City 1979-09-27
Corleone 1978-11-10
Stay As You Are 1978-09-14
Hotel Fear 1978-02-16
Io sono mia 1977-11-18
I Am the Law 1977-09-23
Sorcerer 1977-06-24
The Desert of the Tartars 1976-10-29
The Long Vacations of '36 1976-10-28
Emilia... parada y fonda 1976-08-15
Blanca's Weddings 1975-11-17
Eye of the Cat 1975-10-19
The City of World 1975-10-16
C.I.A. Secret Story 1975-08-21
The Dead Man 1975-08-21
La peccatrice 1975-07-20
Fight to the Death 1975-01-27
The Tempter 1974-11-22
Tormento 1974-09-02
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game 1974-05-29
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar 1974-05-15
Death Will Have Your Eyes 1974-01-01
Counselor at Crime 1973-08-30
La otra imagen 1973-06-16
La colonna infame 1973-04-19
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea 1973-04-13
The Guerrilla 1973-02-16
Planet Venus 1972-08-27
N.P. - The Secret 1972-07-26
Le soldat Laforêt 1972-04-21
It Can Be Done Amigo 1972-03-31
Nada menos que todo un hombre 1972-02-14
Goya: A Story of Solitude 1971-06-07
El apartamento de la tentación 1971-05-24
The Big Black Sow 1971-04-13
Exorcism's Daughter 1971-01-01
Cutting Heads 1970-10-16
Ann and Eve 1970-08-03
Laia 1970-01-01
Diario Spagnolo 1970-01-01
Eagles Over London 1969-09-20
The Challenges 1969-09-19
Simon Bolivar 1969-09-12
Un adulterio decente 1969-08-25
Spain Again 1969-06-07
Blood in the Bullring 1969-05-19
After the Deluge 1968-01-25
Les Anges exterminés 1968-01-15
Bloody Che Contra 1968-01-01
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes 1967-11-02
Oscuros sueños de agosto 1967-07-01
Belle de Jour 1967-05-24
Long Days of Vengeance 1967-02-23
The Witches 1967-02-22
Camino del Rocío 1966-12-05
Don Juan Tenorio 1966-11-02
Hoy como ayer 1966-08-29
The Nun 1966-05-06
María Rosa 1965-11-13
Legacy of the Incas 1965-09-08
The Blue Panther 1965-08-25
Currito de la Cruz 1965-07-01
España insólita 1965-05-13
The Devil Also Cries 1965-03-14
Intimidad de los parques 1965-03-03
The Other Woman 1964-09-04
Weeping for a Bandit 1964-08-31
The Big Hit 1964-06-24
The Reunion 1963-09-19
Autopsia de un criminal 1963-08-05
Summer Night 1963-06-03
Mathias Sandorf 1963-02-13
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo 1962-10-11
The Female: Seventy Times Seven 1962-08-30
L'Eclisse 1962-04-13
Viridiana 1962-04-01
Azahares rojos 1961-11-01
Pigeon Shoot 1961-05-25
At Five in the Afternoon 1961-05-16
The Hand in the Trap 1961-05-01
Hijo de hombre 1961-01-16
El hombre de la isla 1960-07-07
Trío de damas 1960-01-01
Cavalcata selvaggia 1960-01-01
Sonatas 1959-10-12
Two Men in Town 1959-06-22
Diez fusiles esperan 1959-06-15
Nazarin 1959-06-04
La noche y el alba 1958-10-10
Cuenca 1958-07-01
L'uomo dai calzoni corti 1958-06-23
Revenge 1958-05-02
The Mighty Crusaders 1957-12-23
The Wide Blue Road 1957-11-22
Whom God Forgives 1957-05-05
Saranno uomini 1957-03-23
Marisa 1957-03-19
La gran mentira 1956-04-01
Revelation 1955-12-30
The Miller's Saucy Wife 1955-12-05
El canto del gallo 1955-09-26
Death of a Cyclist 1955-09-07
Radio Stories 1955-07-25
Murió hace quince años 1954-10-04
All Is Possible in Granada 1954-03-08
Judas' Kiss 1954-02-27
Hay un camino a la derecha 1953-10-28
I Was a Parish Priest 1953-09-30
María Morena 1952-06-02
Luna de sangre 1952-02-18
Sor Intrépida 1952-01-04
Doubt 1951-10-08
Perseguidos 1951-05-31
María Antonia "La Caramba" 1951-03-24
La honradez de la cerradura 1950-06-08
Alhucemas 1948-02-06
Don Quixote 1947-03-01
El crimen de Pepe Conde 1946-10-28
La rueda de la vida 1942-11-30
Land Without Bread 1933-12-01

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