ACTOR

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francisco Rabal has received more than 291,591 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Francisco Rabal is the 773rd most popular actor (up from 976th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from Spain (up from 468th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Spanish Actor.

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  • 30

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  • 5.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Francisco Rabal ranks 773 out of 13,578. Before him are David Duchovny, Charles Chaplin Jr., Dwight Schultz, Ida Rubinstein, Dirk Benedict, and Fernanda Montenegro. After him are Jeroen Krabbé, Katharina Schratt, Sacha Guitry, Rodolfo Gucci, Peter Weller, and Sylva Koscina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Francisco Rabal ranks 83. Before him are Jean-Pierre Serre, Michel Butor, Norman Jewison, Yoshio Okada, Aaron Klug, and Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco. After him are Ta Mok, Gus Grissom, Poul Anderson, Joan Sutherland, György Kurtág, and Joachim Fest. Among people deceased in 2001, Francisco Rabal ranks 44. Before him are Giovanni Leone, Balthus, Chung Ju-yung, Anna Mani, Isaac Stern, and Donald J. Cram. After him are Jacques Mayol, David Graf, Edward Gierek, Francisco da Costa Gomes, Poul Anderson, and Ken Kesey.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Rabal ranks 388 out of 3,355. Before him are Enrique Simonet (1866), Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca (1782), Jacint Verdaguer (1845), Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453), Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco (1926), and Blanche II of Navarre (1424). After him are Theudis (470), Ramiro II of León (898), Sisebut (565), Ramiro I of Asturias (790), César Rodríguez Álvarez (1920), and Rafael del Riego (1784).

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Among ACTORS In Spain

Among actors born in Spain, Francisco Rabal ranks 8. Before him are Penélope Cruz (1974), Carmen Amaya (1913), Fernando Rey (1917), Javier Bardem (1969), La Belle Otero (1868), and Carmen Maura (1945). After him are Marisa Paredes (1946), Sara Montiel (1928), María Casares (1922), Victoria Abril (1959), Pedro Alonso (1971), and Concha Velasco (1939).

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