Francisco Rabal
- Acting
- March 8, 1926 · Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
- August 29, 2001
Biography
Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 – 29 August 2001), popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous accolades both in Spain and abroad, including the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award and the Goya Award for Best Actor. Rabal was best known internationally for his collaborations with director Luis Buñuel, with Ronald Bergan writing "most of his other major roles he carried the heady, perverse whiff of the great surrealist director with him." He worked with many other notable directors, including Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, William Friedkin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Claude Chabrol, Luchino Visconti, and Gillo Pontecorvo. One of Spain's most-loved and acclaimed actors during his lifetime, he also was known for his commitment to human rights and other social causes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francisco Rabal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The Revolution on Two Horses · Zio Henrique
- Zero/infinito · Voice
- Dagon · Ezequiel
- Just Run! · Don Vicente
- Lázaro de Tormes · El Ciego
- Nights of Constantinople
- Divertimento
- Moonfish · Tio Nini
- Speaking of Buñuel · Self
- Goya in Bordeaux · Goya
- Talk of Angels · Don Jorge
- Divine · Papá Basilio
- Les paradoxes de Buñuel · Self
- Water Easy Reach
- La novia de medianoche · Wenceslao Corredoira
- Little Miracles · Don Francisco
- Little Bird · El Abuelo
- Airbag · Villambrosa
- Day and Night · Cristobal
- Oedipus Mayor · Tiresias
- On Earth as It Is in Heaven · San Pedro
- The Lame Pigeon · Tío Ricardo
- One Hundred and One Nights · Luis Buñuel (Voice)
- Felicidades, Tovarich · Abuelo
- La mujer cualquiera
- Truhanes · Ginés Giménez
- La Lola se va a los puertos · Don Diego
- Paco, mi padre
- The Man Who Lost His Shadow · Antonio
- Ni contigo ni sin ti
- The Other
- Imágenes perdidas · Self
- La taberna fantástica · Rogelio
- Manuel, le fils emprunté · Juan Alvarez
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! · Máximo Espejo
- The White Dove · Domingo
- Baroque · El Hispano
- Torquemada · Torquemada
- Juncal · José Álvarez "Juncal"
- Buñuel · Self
- Scent of a Crime · Coronel Olvera
- A Time of Destiny · Jorge Larraneta
- Il mistero del panino assassino · Arno dei conti Vincini
- Divine Words · Pedro Gailo
- History · Remo
- El disputado voto del señor Cayo · Señor Cayo
- El hermano bastardo de Dios
- Tiempo de silencio · Muecas
- Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) · Guaglione
- Scapegoat · Comisario Cárdenas
- The Witching Hour · Cesar
- Marbella · Juan
- La vieja música · Domingo Ferreiro
- Bohemian Nights · Max Estrella
- Our Father · Abel
- The Lost Paradise · El político anciano
- The Stilts · Manuel
- Un delitto · Abbot
- The Holy Innocents · Azarías
- Teresa de Jesús · Alonso
- Coarse Salt · Gabino
- Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa · Coronel Márquez
- Epilogue · Rocabruno
- Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17 · Coronel Márquez
- Crooks · Ginés Jiménez Valera
- Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble · Coronel Márquez
- Los desastres de la guerra · Goya
- Treasure of the Four Crowns · Sócrates
- Salzillo · Salzillo
- The Beehive · Ricardo Sorbedo
- Reborn · Giacomo
- Cervantes · Mateo Alemán
- Vultures Over the City · Bender
- Nightmare City · Major Warren Holmes
- Speed Driver · Esposito
- El gran secreto · Domingo
- Under Siege · William Lombard
- Fortunata and Jacinta · José Izquierdo
- The Rebel · Tony
- El buscón · Mata