Rafael Rivelles
Rafael Félix Rivelles Guillén was a Spanish actor born in El Cabañal, a small town in the province of Valencia, Spain. Son of play actor José Rivelles and play actress Amparo Guillén, he was the father of famous Spanish star Amparo Rivelles. In the 1930s, with the advent of talking films, he went to Hollywood to make Spanish-language versions of American films, but eventually came back to Spain.
Rivelles had two especially notable roles - the title role in Don Quijote de la Mancha, and the Prior in Marcelino pan y vino. He died in Madrid on 3 December 1971 and was interred at the El Cabanyal Cemetery in Valencia along with his father.
Filmography
- 1914: Prueba trágica
- 1931: La Mujer X - Luis Floriot
- 1931: El Embrujo de Sevilla - Paco Quiñones
- 1931: El Proceso de Mary Dugan - Fiscal
- 1931: ¿Conoces a tu mujer? - Robert Felton
- 1931: Mamá - Santiago
- 1932: Fog
- 1933: The Man Who Laughed at Love - Juan Herrero
- 1934: El Café de la Marina -
- 1936: Nuestra Natacha - Lalo
- 1938: Carmen, la de Triana - José Navarro
- 1939: Carmen fra i rossi - Saverio
- 1940: The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez - Don Fernando
- 1940: Santa Rogelia - Fernando
- 1942: Capitan Tempesta - Lachinsky
- 1942: Il Leone di Damasco - Lachinsky
- 1942: Goyescas - Capitán Fernando Pizarro
- 1944: Lessons in Good Love - Federico Montero
- 1947: Don Quixote - Don Quijote
- 1954: Judas' Kiss - Judas Iscariote
- 1954: He Died Fifteen Years Ago - Coronel Acuña
- 1955: Marcelino pan y vino - El Padre Superior
- 1960: La rivolta degli schiavi - Rutilius
- 1964: Cyrano et d'Artagnan - Cardinal Duc de Richelieu
- 1964: El Señor de La Salle - Cardenal Noailles
- 1966: El Greco - Marquis of Villena