
Birthday:
12-15-1911
Deathday:
02-12-1994 (82 years)
Birthplace:
Madrid, Spain
Biography
Rafael Durán Espayaldo (1911-1994) was a Spanish film actor.
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Eloísa está debajo de un almendro
Act like Fernando
event1943 star_border 5.4
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Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.
Los cuervos
Act like Don Andrés
event1962 star_border 5
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An industrial magnate is subjected to a heart transplant to save his life. During his convalescence, his secretary will take over most of his stock.
The Warrior and the Slave Girl
Act like Bourkalla
event1958 star_border 6
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Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
The Seventh Page
Act like Fuentes
event1951 star_border 8
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Chronicle of the daily activity of a newspaper called La Jornada. Through the events covered by the gossip columnist that occupy precisely the seventh page, a portrait emerges of different classes of Spain in the 50's and a vision of reality where facts are mixed comedy, police, emotional, dramatic and even tragic.
The Faith
event1947 star_border 7.1
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Father Luis Lastra is a young priest who does his job in the village of Peñascosa. There he meets Marta, a beautiful parishioner very interested in religious matters, so much that she convinces the priest to accompany her to the convent to become a cloistered nun. Along the way, they have to stop at an inn for the night and that's where Father Luis will test his faith.
La noche del sábado
Act like Principe Miguel
event1950 star_border 5.3
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In Rome, a beautiful young model named Donina is hired by a sculptor, Leonardo, inspired her to do a statue he hopes will be his masterpiece. The striking statue of Prince Florencio, heir to the throne of Preslavia, who presented at the banquet in his villa in Rome. Soon their beauty is all the rage across the country, the girl is the feeling of the moment and decides to leave with her prince, leaving behind all his life, including his daughter, who leaves her under the protection of Leonardo.
El destino se disculpa
Act like Ramiro Arnal
event1945 star_border 6
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Ramiro and Teófilo are great friends and endure their misfortunes together. Their attempts to succeed as artists fail, so they both promise that the first to die will become the guide to the survivor's life.
Esa voz es una mina
Act like Carlos Varela
event1956 star_border 5
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A young miner, married to a lovely woman crippled, lives happily proving to have a wonderful singing voice while hauling trucks in the mine. One day, to hear a clever promoter, gets its hands on an interesting contract to sing in the most cosmopolitan nightclubs, waking him good prospects for a revenue amazement while he meets another woman who might get put endanger their marriage.
The Nail
Act like Javier Zarco
event1944 star_border 5.9
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Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.
Jeromín
Act like Don Luis de Quijada
event1953 star_border 9
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In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles V and the values of Franco.
La vida en un hilo
Act like Miguel Ángel Martínez de la Rivera
event1945 star_border 5.8
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After her husband's sudden death, a young widow leaves her small town to start anew in the big city. On the train, she meets a fortune teller who will fill her in about the life she could've led had she never met her late husband.
The Great Galeoto
Act like Ernesto Acedo
event1951 star_border 7
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A young musician and dreamy, called "Ernesto", is forced to live in Madrid to die his father, in the house of executor of the testament, "don Julio Villamil", who is married to actress Teresa Labisbal, of which "Ernesto Acedo" was enamored platonic. Although the conduct of the young is flawless, a third person causes slander which oblige "don Julio" to fight in mourning to death.
Legions of the Nile
Act like Sacerdote egiziano
event1959 star_border 5.2
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Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful dancer who falls in love. Actually, the dancer is the queen Cleopatra who leads a double life using this name.
Ella, él y sus millones
Act like Arturo Salazar
event1944 star_border 5.5
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Arturo Salazar is a powerful businessman who wants to be related to the nobility, so he asks an aristocratic friend to find him a blue-blooded bride.
Oro español
Act like Voice
event1959
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A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco.
La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía
event1965 star_border 5
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Pedrito de Andia is an adolescent self-conscious about his height something that, in love with his childhood friend, Isabel, goes to port forward to receive her after a long stay abroad. However, when he sees his friend turned into a slender woman, the boy feels dwarfed and, indeed, when he receives a snub by refusing a dance, preferring a more attractive guy with whom Pedrito fight. This scandal ends in punishment and he is sent to Andia, his town, to think. He agrees with the hope that one day she recognize love beyond appearances.
Três Espelhos
Act like João Romano Esmoriz
event1947 star_border 7
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When a businessman's car crashes and burns, inspector Moisés of the criminal brigade is given the case, as the body has been stabbed. He'll try to reconstruct the financier's personality by the mirrored impressions on those who knew him.
Tuvo la culpa Adán
Act like Gerardo Bernal
event1944
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Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia. Her identity mistaken a new life begins for her, where she will encounter love, adventure and even crime.
La pródiga
Act like Guillermo de Loja
event1946
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Spain, 1850. In the midst of the electoral campaign, three young men use all their strategies to place themselves in Madrid as members of the national congress.
La condesa María
event1942 star_border 5
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A romantic melodrama
Loyola, the Soldier Saint
Act like Íñigo de Loyola
event1949 star_border 7.2
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A historical drama based on St. Ignatius of Loyola as a Warrior, as a Founder of the Jesuit Order and as a Saint .
Currito de la Cruz
Act like Carmona (uncredited)
event1965 star_border 5
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The rivalry between the old bullfighter Manolo Carmona and young Romerita it takes to seduce Rocio, the Carmona's daughter, and elope with her. After a year, Romerita leaves the girl and the daughter, who spend all kinds of calamities. Some time later, Romerita dies. At the same time, Currito de la Cruz, a young bullfighter sponsored by Carmona, who has always been in love with dew, waiting patiently for the girl forget the past.
Un ángel tuvo la culpa
Act like Preso
event1960 star_border 6
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Claudio is a kind mand who works as cashier in a company for several years. Whe he finds closed the bank where he has to deposit a millon of pesetas, he decides to go to a friends party. Due to alcohol effects, he share out the money to the people who need it more.
El pobre García
Act like Don Matías
event1961
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García is employed of advertising at a factory of razor blades and goes out in secret with Conchita, the daughter of the director. One day, taking advantage of the cycle return to Spain, García puts into practice a new and risky system of making him an advertising, but Raúl, the director, dismisses García because he didn´t like the idea. From here, García will gain the life himself in the most varied works: barber, bootblack and guide of the Prado Museum. A difficult situation in order that his former chief accepts the relation that it supports with his daughter.
Sin uniforme
Act like Alexis
event1950
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Several different people meet in Tangier, where they will have to join efforts to survive.
The Castilian
Act like Gonzalo Díaz
event1963
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Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter" international cast. Broderick Crawford plays a despotic 10th century Spanish king who, in cahoots with the invading Moors, has banished handsome Castilian nobleman Spartaco Santoni. With the surreptitious aid of Crawford's daughter Teresa Velasquez, Santoni assembles an army to march against the Moors. In keeping with the 13th century epic poem from which this film was derived ("El Poema de Fernan Gonzales") Santoni's path is smoothed by the celestial intervention of patron saints Milan and Santiago. Among the big names picking up a few tax-free dollars in The Castilian are Cesar Romero, Linda Darnell, Alida Valli and Fernando Rey.
The Adventures of Scaramouche
Act like Señor de Dubalon
event1963 star_border 5.8
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Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
Don Quixote
Act like (voice) (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5.6
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The old hidalgo Don Alonso Quijano, maddened by the excessive reading of books on chivalry and determined to become a famous and heroic knight-errant, leaves his village and sets out on the road in search of adventure, accompanied by his faithful friend Sancho Panza.
Babes in Bagdad
Act like Sharkhan
event1952 star_border 5
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The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
El piyayo
Act like Don Juan Manuel
event1956 star_border 5.8
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The Piyayo offers a calm and friendly reflection on the Providence by the streets of Malaga. He is a gypsy lover of tradition, rich in grace and with a spirit that exudes honesty. He lives offering company to all who listen to him through the city. And so the character touches for the quality and nobility of his feeling, while his conversations, in every corner of Malaga, remember everyone to have faith in Divine Providence, showing a practical lesson on the subject.
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