FrameThrower · Actors · Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal
3 films · 176 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1977–2001
Born 8 March 1926 · Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain · died 29 August 2001
Francisco Rabal Valera, 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…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 176 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1977–2001
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor1984
- Goya Award for Best Actor2000
- Donostia Award2001
- Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actor2000
- Gold Medal of Work Merit1998
- honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia1995
- Medalla de Oro1993
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts1992
- Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actor1991
- Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actor1962
- Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actor1958
- Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actor1954
How their films are shot
Measured across 176 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Francisco takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 43% natural — the look of the work Francisco takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 176 frames from Francisco Rabal's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.