Francisco Rabal

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1926-03-08
Place of Birth: Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
Also Known As: Paco Rabal, Франсиско Рабаль

Movies List of Francisco Rabal

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Belle de Jour

1967 Movie
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Cervantes

1967 Movie
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Under Siege

1980 Movie
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Dagon

2001 Movie
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Viridiana

1962 Movie
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L'Eclisse

1962 Movie
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Eagles Over London

1969 Movie
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Nazarin

1959 Movie
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The Witches

1967 Movie
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The Nun

1966 Movie
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Les Anges exterminés

1968 Movie
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Ann and Eve

1970 Movie
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Sorcerer

1977 Movie
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It Can Be Done Amigo

1972 Movie
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Day and Night

1997 Movie
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Legacy of the Incas

1965 Movie
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The Blue Panther

1965 Movie
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Talk of Angels

1998 Movie
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Hoy como ayer

1966 Movie
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La gran mentira

1956 Movie
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I Was a Parish Priest

1953 Movie
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Hotel Fear

1978 Movie
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Camino del Rocío

1966 Movie
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Currito de la Cruz

1965 Movie
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El hombre de la isla

1960 Movie
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Blood in the Bullring

1969 Movie
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Trío de damas

1960 Movie
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Scent of a Crime

1988 Movie
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The Rebel

1980 Movie
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Hunted City

1979 Movie
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Exorcism's Daughter

1971 Movie
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Tiempo de silencio

1986 Movie
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Little Bird

1997 Movie
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The Wide Blue Road

1957 Movie
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Sonatas

1959 Movie
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Coarse Salt

1984 Movie
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Reborn

1981 Movie
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The Reunion

1963 Movie
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Speaking of Buñuel

2000 Movie
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Judas' Kiss

1954 Movie
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Bohemian Nights

1985 Movie
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Crooks

1983 Movie
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Two Men in Town

1959 Movie
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Corleone

1978 Movie
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The Devil Also Cries

1965 Movie
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Marisa

1957 Movie
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Goya in Bordeaux

1999 Movie
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Simon Bolivar

1969 Movie
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Cutting Heads

1970 Movie
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Scapegoat

1985 Movie
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The Guerrilla

1973 Movie
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The Witching Hour

1985 Movie
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Peixe-Lua

2000 Movie
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The Tempter

1974 Movie
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Little Miracles

1997 Movie
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A Time of Destiny

1988 Movie
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Laia

1970 Movie
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Speed Driver

1980 Movie
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The Challenges

1969 Movie
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Epilogue

1984 Movie
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Our Father

1985 Movie
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Blanca's Weddings

1975 Movie
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Airbag

1997 Movie
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Summer Night

1963 Movie
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Fight to the Death

1975 Movie
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The Mighty Crusaders

1957 Movie
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Counselor at Crime

1973 Movie
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Tormento

1974 Movie
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Whom God Forgives

1957 Movie
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La peccatrice

1975 Movie
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Weeping for a Bandit

1964 Movie
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Pigeon Shoot

1961 Movie
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Bloody Che Contra

1968 Movie
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N.P.

1972 Movie
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Stay As You Are

1978 Movie
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History

1986 Movie
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Baroque

1989 Movie
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Marbella

1985 Movie
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The Lame Pigeon

1995 Movie
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The Lost Paradise

1985 Movie
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Ni contigo ni sin ti

1992 Movie
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The Beehive

1982 Movie
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Sor Intrépida

1952 Movie
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España insólita

1965 Movie
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Just Run!

2001 Movie
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Divertimento

2000 Movie
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Mathias Sandorf

1963 Movie
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I Am the Law

1977 Movie
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La otra imagen

1973 Movie
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Planet Venus

1972 Movie
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The Big Hit

1964 Movie
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The City of World

1975 Movie
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Azahares rojos

1961 Movie
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María Rosa

1965 Movie
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Io sono mia

1977 Movie
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Death of a Cyclist

1955 Movie
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The Holy Innocents

1984 Movie
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C.I.A. Secret Story

1975 Movie
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Diario Spagnolo

1970 Movie
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Divine Words

1987 Movie
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The Hand in the Trap

1961 Movie
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Divine

1998 Movie
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Diez fusiles esperan

1959 Movie
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Le soldat Laforêt

1972 Movie
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Cuenca

1958 Movie
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Revelation

1955 Movie
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The White Dove

1989 Movie
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After the Deluge

1968 Movie
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El gran secreto

1980 Movie
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Felicidades, Tovarich

1995 Movie
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Radio Stories

1955 Movie
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El canto del gallo

1955 Movie
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Spain Again

1969 Movie
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La colonna infame

1973 Movie
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Los zancos

1984 Movie
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The Dead Man

1975 Movie
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Eye of the Cat

1975 Movie
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Hijo de hombre

1961 Movie
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Salzillo

1983 Movie
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Land Without Bread

1933 Movie
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The Other Woman

1964 Movie
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The Big Black Sow

1971 Movie
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Zero/infinito

2002 Movie
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Buñuel

1989 Movie
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Water Easy Reach

1998 Movie
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Torquemada

1989 Movie
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Lázaro de Tormes

2001 Movie
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Nightmare City

1980 Movie
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El buscón

1979 Movie
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Futuro Imperfecto

1985 Movie
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La vieja música

1985 Movie
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Cavalcata selvaggia

1960 Movie
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Don Juan Tenorio

1966 Movie
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La noche y el alba

1958 Movie
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Luna de sangre

1952 Movie
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María Morena

1952 Movie
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Doubt

1951 Movie
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Revenge

1958 Movie
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La rueda de la vida

1942 Movie
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Saranno uomini

1957 Movie
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Alhucemas

1948 Movie
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Don Quixote

1947 Movie
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Un adulterio decente

1969 Movie
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La mujer cualquiera

1994 Movie
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Oedipus Mayor

1996 Movie
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Perseguidos

1951 Movie