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Francisco Rabal

1926 - 2001

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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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francisco Rabal is the 1,007th most popular actor (down from 773rd in 2019), the 458th most popular biography from Spain (down from 388th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Spanish Actor.

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Among actors, Francisco Rabal ranks 1,007 out of 13,578. Before him are Brigitte Helm, Robert Ryan, Rosemary Harris, Simon Baker, Matt Bomer, and Sacha Guitry. After him are Norman Reedus, Kelly Preston, Björn Andrésen, Emilio Estevez, Edmund Kean, and T.O.P.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Francisco Rabal ranks 99. Before him are Shigeo Sugimoto, Hugo Banzer, Teddy Scholten, John Schlesinger, Hans Werner Henze, and David C. H. Austin. After him are László Papp, Cloris Leachman, Kim Jong-pil, James Stirling, Alan Greenspan, and Gus Grissom. Among people deceased in 2001, Francisco Rabal ranks 60. Before him are Michele Alboreto, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Liisi Oterma, Birendra of Nepal, Edward Gierek, and Zhang Xueliang. After him are David Graf, Joseph Greenberg, Poul Anderson, Queen Aishwarya of Nepal, Mirza Delibašić, and Ken Kesey.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Rabal ranks 458 out of 3,355. Before him are Joan of Navarre, Queen of England (1368), Serena (365), Infanta Cristina of Spain (1965), Garcilaso de la Vega (1501), Petrus Gonsalvus (1537), and José Antonio Camacho (1955). After him are Hydatius (395), Abraham Cresques (1325), Suintila (594), Maslama al-Majriti (950), Pío Baroja (1872), and Anthony Mary Claret (1807).

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Among ACTORS In Spain

Among actors born in Spain, Francisco Rabal ranks 9. Before him are Marisa Paredes (1946), Penélope Cruz (1974), Javier Bardem (1969), Carmen Maura (1945), Fernando Rey (1917), and María Casares (1922). After him are Sara Montiel (1928), El Risitas (1956), Victoria Abril (1959), Ángela Molina (1955), Daniel Brühl (1978), and Lina Romay (1954).

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