Rafael Rivelles was a Spanish actor born in El Cabañal, a small town in the province of Valencia

Valencia (province)

Valencia or València is a province of Spain, in the central part of the Valencian Community.It is bordered by the provinces of Alicante, Albacete, Cuenca, Teruel, Castellón, and the Mediterranean Sea...

, Spain

Spain

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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

Amparo Rivelles

Amparo Rivelles, is a Spanish actress.In the beginning of her career, she was known as Amparito Rivelles.She has worked in Cinema of Mexico and in telenovelas...

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In the 30's, 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

Don Quixote de la Mancha (1947 film)

Don Quixote de la Mancha is the first sound film version in Spanish of the great classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was directed and adapted by Rafael Gil and released in 1947...

, and the Prior in Marcelino pan y vino

Marcelino Pan y Vino

Marcelino Pan Y Vino is a 1955 Spanish film. It was a success, and other countries have produced versions of it. The 1955 film was written by José María Sánchez Silva, who based it on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda...

(1955).

Filmography

• 1914 : Prueba trágica
• 1930 : El Embrujo de Sevilla
• 1931 : El Proceso de Mary Dugan
• 1931 : La Mujer X : Luis Floriot
• 1931 : ¿Conoces a tu mujer? : Robert Felton
• 1931 : Mamá (film)
  Mama (film)
  Mama is a 1990 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan's directorial debut, Mama is today considered a seminal film in the history of Chinese independent cinema, and by extension, as a pioneering film of the Sixth Generation of which Zhang is a member.Shot on an extreme budget within Zhang...
  
  : Santiago
• 1932 : El Hombre que se reía del amor
• 1932 : Niebla (film)
• 1933 : El Café de la Marina : (Castilian version)
• 1936 : Nuestra Natacha : Lalo
• 1938 : Carmen, la de Triana
  Carmen, la de Triana
  Carmen, la de 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 Nights in Andalusia based on the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet.-Cast:* Imperio Argentina ... ...
  
  
• 1939 : Carmen fra i rossi : Saverio (Spanish version)
• 1940 : Il Peccato di Rogelia Sanchez : Don Fernando
• 1940 : Santa Rogelia
• 1942 : Capitán Tormenta : Lachinsky
• 1942 : Capitan Tempesta : Lachinsky
• 1942 : Il Leone di Damasco : Lachinsky
• 1942 : Goyescas
  Goyescas
  Goyescas, Op. 11, subtitled Los majos enamorados , is a piano suite written in 1911 by Spanish composer Enrique Granados. This piano suite is usually considered Granados's crowning creation and was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, although the piano pieces have not been authoritatively...
  
  
• 1944 : Lecciones de buen amor
• 1947 : Don Quijote de la Mancha
  Don Quixote de la Mancha (1947 film)
  Don Quixote de la Mancha is the first sound film version in Spanish of the great classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was directed and adapted by Rafael Gil and released in 1947...
  
  : Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
• 1954 : El Beso de Judas : Judas Iscariote
• 1954 : Murió hace quince años : Coronel Acuña
• 1955 : Marcelino pan y vino
  Marcelino Pan y Vino
  Marcelino Pan Y Vino is a 1955 Spanish film. It was a success, and other countries have produced versions of it. The 1955 film was written by José María Sánchez Silva, who based it on his novel, and directed by Ladislao Vajda...
  
  : El Padre Superior
• 1961 : La Rivolta degli schiavi : Rutilio
• 1964 : El Señor de La Salle : Cardenal Noailles
• 1964 : Cyrano et d'Artagnan : Cardinal Duc de Richelieu
• 1966 : El Greco
  El Greco (1966 film)
  El Greco is a 1966 drama film and movie biography of the master painter El Greco directed by Luciano Salce and starring Mel Ferrer and Rosanna Schiaffino.-Cast:* Mel Ferrer - El Greco * Rosanna Schiaffino - Jeronima de las Cuevas...
  
  : Marquis of Villena

External links

• http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/12826400880173731865846/p0000020.htm Rivelles in Hollywood (Spanish)