Rafael Félix Rivelles Guillén (23 December 1898 — 3 December 1971) was a Spanish actor born in
El Cabañal (El Cabanyal), a small town in the province of
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...
,
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. Son of play actor José Rivelles and play actress Amparo Guillén, he was the father of famous Spanish star
Amparo Rivelles
MarÃa Amparo Rivelles Ladrón de Guevara MML (11 February 1925 – 7 November 2013), better known as Amparo Rivelles, was a Spanish actress.
She was the daughter of actor Rafael Rivelles and actress MarÃa Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara, and th ...
. 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
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'', and the Prior in ''
Marcelino pan y vino
''Miracle of Marcelino'' ( es, Marcelino, pan y vino, "Marcelino, bread and wine") is a 1955 Spanish film written by José Maria Sanchez-Silva, based on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda. It starred, Juan Calvo (who also starred together ...
'' (1955). 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''
* 1930 : ''
El Embrujo de Sevilla'' (''The Witch of Seville'')
* 1931 : ''
El Proceso de Mary Dugan''
* 1931 : ''
The Charm of Seville
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''
* 1931 : ''
La Mujer X'' (''Lady X'') : ''Luis Floriot''
* 1931 : ''
¿Conoces a tu mujer?'' : ''Robert Felton''
* 1931 : ''
Mamá (film)'' (''Mommy'') : ''Santiago''
* 1932 : ''
The Man Who Laughed at Love''
* 1932 : ''
Fog
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''
* 1933 : ''
El Café de la Marina'' : ''(Castilian version)''
* 1936 : ''
Nuestra Natacha'' : ''Lalo''
* 1938 : ''
Carmen, la de Triana
''Carmen, la de Triana'' (''Carmen, the girl from Triana'') is a 1938 Spanish/German musical film directed by Florián Rey and starring Imperio Argentina, Rafael Rivelles and Manuel Luna. It was a Spanish-language version of the 1938 film ''Nig ...
''
* 1939 : ''
Carmen fra i rossi'' : ''Saverio (Spanish version)''
* 1940 : ''
The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez
''The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez'' (Italian:''Il peccato di Rogelia Sanchez'') is a 1940 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Borghesio and Roberto de Ribón and starring Germaine Montero, Juan de Landa and Rafael Rivelles.Balma p.128
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'' : ''Don Fernando''
* 1940 : ''
Santa Rogelia''
* 1942 : ''
Capitán Tormenta'' : ''Lachinsky''
* 1942 : ''
Capitan Tempesta'' (''Captain Storm'') : ''Lachinsky''
* 1942 : ''
Il Leone di Damasco'' (''The Lion of Damascus'') : ''Lachinsky''
* 1942 : ''
Goyescas
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'' (''Goyesque'')
* 1944 : ''
Lessons in Good Love''
* 1947 : ''
Don Quixote
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'' : ''Don Quijote (Don Quixote)''
* 1954 : ''
Judas' Kiss'' : ''Judas Iscariote''
* 1954 : ''
He Died Fifteen Years Ago'' : ''Coronel Acuña''
* 1955 : ''
Marcelino pan y vino
''Miracle of Marcelino'' ( es, Marcelino, pan y vino, "Marcelino, bread and wine") is a 1955 Spanish film written by José Maria Sanchez-Silva, based on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda. It starred, Juan Calvo (who also starred together ...
'': ''El Padre Superior''
* 1961 : ''
La rivolta degli schiavi'' (''Revolt of the Slaves'') : ''Rutilius'' (''Rutilio'')
* 1964 : ''
El Señor de La Salle'' (''Master of the Halls'') : ''Cardenal Noailles''
* 1964 : ''
Cyrano et d'Artagnan'' : ''Cardinal Duc de Richelieu''
* 1966 : ''
El Greco
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'' : ''Marquis of Villena''
Theatre
* ''Reinar después de morir'' (1964)
*''Cuidado con las personas formales'' (1960)
*''Papá se enfada por todo'' (1959)
* ''La herencia'' (1957)
*''Pepa Doncel'' (1956)
* ''La herida luminosa'' (1955)
* ''La muralla'' (''The Wall'') (1954)
* ''La mariposa y el ingeniero'' (1953)
*''Señora ama'' (1953)
* ''Callados como muertos'' (1952)
* ''Criminal de guerra'' (1951).
Estreno de la comedia dramática "Criminal de guerra", de JoaquÃn Calvo Sotelo
Diario ABC
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, February 17, 1951, retrieved on November 8, 2011
* ''Al amor hay que mandarlo al colegio'' (1950)
* ''La visita que no llamó al timbre'' (1949)
* ''Carlo Monte in Monte Carlo'' (''Carlo Monte en Monte Carlo'') (1939)
* ''El bandido de la Sierra'' (''Bandit of the Mountain'') (1926)
* ''El nido ajeno'' (1923)
References
External links
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* http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/12826400880173731865846/p0000020.htm Rivelles in Hollywood (Spanish)
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Spanish male film actors
1898 births
1971 deaths
20th-century Spanish male actors