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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1926-03-08
- event Death Date 2001-08-29
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 4.8
- info Birth Place Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Francisco Rabal
7.4
Belle de Jour
1967-05-24
7.6
Cervantes
1967-11-02
6.9
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1990-01-22
4.8
Under Siege
1980-08-08
6.1
Dagon
2001-10-12
7.7
Viridiana
1962-04-01
3.8
Death Will Have Your Eyes
1974-01-01
7.7
L'Eclisse
1962-04-13
6.2
Eagles Over London
1969-09-20
7.7
Nazarin
1959-06-04
5.3
On Earth as It Is in Heaven
1995-11-03
6.1
The Witches
1967-02-22
7.2
The Nun
1966-05-06
0
Les Anges exterminés
1968-01-15
5.2
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
1992-01-15
4
Ann and Eve
1970-08-03
7.5
Sorcerer
1977-06-24
5.7
It Can Be Done Amigo
1972-03-31
6.8
The Desert of the Tartars
1976-10-29
4.9
La Lola se va a los puertos
1993-09-10
2.2
Day and Night
1997-02-12
5.8
Legacy of the Incas
1965-09-08
4.9
The Blue Panther
1965-08-25
5.8
Talk of Angels
1998-10-30
0
Hoy como ayer
1966-08-29
6
La gran mentira
1956-04-01
5.9
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1986-01-24
6.2
The Honesty of the Lock
1950-06-08
5.8
Long Days of Vengeance
1967-02-23
6.8
I Was a Parish Priest
1953-09-30
5.7
Hotel Fear
1978-02-16
5.4
Camino del Rocío
1966-12-05
5
Currito de la Cruz
1965-07-01
0
La novia de medianoche
1997-10-30
5.3
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
1986-11-03
5.5
El hombre de la isla
1960-07-07
4.4
Murió hace quince años
1954-10-04
5.9
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
1962-08-30
5
Blood in the Bullring
1969-05-19
5
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955-12-05
4.7
Trío de damas
1960-01-01
4.3
Scent of a Crime
1988-10-21
5.4
Hunted City
1979-09-27
4.5
The Rebel
1980-01-01
5.8
Hay un camino a la derecha
1953-10-28
4.6
Exorcism's Daughter
1971-01-01
5
Tiempo de silencio
1986-03-13
6.1
Little Bird
1997-08-31
5.9
The Wide Blue Road
1957-11-22
4.6
Sonatas
1959-10-12
5
Coarse Salt
1984-02-06
4.4
Reborn
1981-09-27
5.9
The Reunion
1963-09-19
5
All Is Possible in Granada
1954-03-08
5.9
Speaking of Buñuel
2000-06-09
10
Judas' Kiss
1954-02-27
5.7
Bohemian Nights
1985-08-21
5.6
Crooks
1983-09-21
0
Two Men in Town
1959-06-22
5.3
I tromboni di Fra' Diavolo
1962-10-11
7.4
Corleone
1978-11-10
5.8
The Devil Also Cries
1965-03-14
5.5
Marisa la civetta
1957-03-19
6.2
Goya in Bordeaux
1999-09-04
6
The Long Vacations of '36
1976-10-28
5.5
Simon Bolivar
1969-09-12
4.3
Cutting Heads
1970-10-16
0
Scapegoat
1985-11-14
2
The Guerrilla
1973-02-16
4.4
The Witching Hour
1985-11-04
5
Peixe-Lua
2000-09-29
5.5
The Tempter
1974-11-22
5.5
Little Miracles
1997-09-04
5
Autopsy of a Criminal
1963-08-05
4.8
A Time of Destiny
1988-04-22
0
Laia
1970-01-01
4.8
Speed Driver
1980-12-04
5.2
The Challenges
1969-09-19
4.2
Epilogue
1984-01-20
4.6
Our Father
1985-04-21
5
Blanca's Weddings
1975-11-17
4
Treasure of the Four Crowns
1983-01-21
6.6
Airbag
1997-06-20
5.9
Summer Night
1963-06-03
3.5
Fight to the Death
1975-01-27
5
The Mighty Crusaders
1957-12-23
5.6
Counselor at Crime
1973-08-30
4.8
Tormento
1974-09-02
4.8
Whom God Forgives
1957-05-05
3
La peccatrice
1975-07-20
5.1
Weeping for a Bandit
1964-08-31
7.2
Pigeon Shoot
1961-05-25
6.5
N.P.
1972-07-26
7.9
Bloody Che Contra
1968-01-01
5.9
Stay As You Are
1978-09-14
6.9
History
1986-01-02
5.6
Baroque
1989-10-10
4.3
Marbella
1985-10-13
5
The Lame Pigeon
1995-10-06
6.2
The Lost Paradise
1985-01-13
0
Ni contigo ni sin ti
1992-01-01
6.5
The Beehive
1982-10-11
0
Sor Intrépida
1952-01-04
6
España insólita
1965-05-13
0
Just Run!
2001-06-28
1
Nights of Constantinople
2001-01-01
10
Divertimento
2000-10-22
0
Il mistero del panino assassino
1987-10-28
6
Mathias Sandorf
1963-02-13
7
I Am the Law
1977-09-23
0
La otra imagen
1973-06-16
0
Planet Venus
1972-08-27
6.4
The Big Hit
1964-06-24
4.9
Oscuros sueños de agosto
1967-07-01
0
The City of World
1975-10-16
5
Azahares rojos
1961-11-01
7.2
María Rosa
1965-11-13
4.9
Io sono mia
1977-11-18
7.1
Death of a Cyclist
1955-09-07
5
El hermano bastardo de Dios
1986-09-10
7.8
The Holy Innocents
1984-04-04
5.8
C.I.A. Secret Story
1975-08-21
4.3
Emilia... parada y fonda
1976-08-15
0
Diario Spagnolo
1970-01-01
5.4
Divine Words
1987-09-15
6.4
The Hand in the Trap
1961-05-01
4.4
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
1974-05-29
5.4
Vultures Over the City
1980-01-01
5.8
Dormir Y Ligar: Todo Es Empezar
1974-05-15
4.9
Divine
1998-09-16
5
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
1958-06-23
5
Diez fusiles esperan
1959-06-15
7
Le soldat Laforêt
1972-04-21
7
Cuenca
1958-07-01
7
Revelation
1955-12-30
6
The White Dove
1989-11-23
4.8
Intimidad de los parques
1965-03-03
0
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
1983-09-09
0
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
1984-02-03
2
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
1983-12-06
5.8
After the Deluge
1968-01-25
0
El gran secreto
1980-10-12
0
Felicidades, Tovarich
1995-01-01
7.1
Radio Stories
1955-07-25
5
El canto del gallo
1955-09-26
5
At Five in the Afternoon
1961-05-16
5.8
Spain Again
1969-06-07
0
La colonna infame
1973-04-19
4.8
The Revolution on Two Horses
2002-04-25
6.7
Los zancos
1984-10-10
5
The Dead Man
1975-08-21
4.5
Eye of the Cat
1975-10-19
6
Hijo de hombre
1961-01-16
0
Salzillo
1983-01-01
7.1
Land Without Bread
1933-12-01
5
El apartamento de la tentación
1971-05-24
0
The Other Woman
1964-09-04
8
La leyenda del alcalde de Zalamea
1973-04-13
0
The Big Black Sow
1971-04-13
6.3
Manuel, le fils emprunté
1990-02-09
0
Zero/infinito
2002-01-01
0
Buñuel
1989-01-01
7.3
Goya, a Story of Solitude
1971-06-07
6.2
One Hundred and One Nights
1995-01-25
6.4
Water Easy Reach
1998-03-06
6
Nada menos que todo un hombre
1972-02-14
8
Torquemada
1989-05-12
5.2
Lázaro de Tormes
2001-01-19
5.7
Nightmare City
1980-12-11
5
El buscón
1979-11-27
0
Futuro Imperfecto
1985-01-28
5
La vieja música
1985-09-26
0
Cavalcata selvaggia
1960-01-01
0
Don Juan Tenorio
1966-11-02
5.6
La noche y el alba
1958-10-10
4
El crimen de Pepe Conde
1946-10-28
4.3
Luna de sangre
1952-02-18
0
María Morena
1952-06-02
0
Doubt
1951-10-08
5.8
Revenge
1958-05-02
6
La rueda de la vida
1942-11-30
5
Saranno uomini
1957-03-23
5.1
Don Quixote
1947-03-01
0
Alhucemas
1948-02-06
1.5
Un adulterio decente
1969-08-25
0
La mujer cualquiera
1994-10-06
0
La taberna fantástica
1991-07-13
5.2
Oedipus Mayor
1996-08-23
5.3
Fortunata and Jacinta
1980-05-07
0
Imágenes perdidas
1991-10-09
0
Il giovane Garibaldi
1974-02-10
4
Truhanes
1993-10-05
6.5
Cervantes
1981-04-06
6
Juncal
1989-02-18
0
Los Desastres de la Guerra
1983-06-06
5.4
Teresa de Jesús
1984-03-12