Rafael Rivelles Explained

Rafael Rivelles
Birth Date:	23 December 1898
Birth Place:	El Cabañal (Valencia), Spain
Death Place:	Madrid, Spain
Birth Name:	Rafael Félix Rivelles Guillén
Children:	Amparo Rivelles
Spouse:	Rosa Fontana (second wife)

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, 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 (1955). He died in Madrid on 3 December 1971 and was interred at the El Cabanyal Cemetery in Valencia along with his father.^[1]

Filmography

1914: Prueba trágica
1931: La Mujer X (Lady X) - Luis Floriot
1931: El Embrujo de Sevilla (The Charm of Seville) - Paco Quiñones
1931: El Proceso de Mary Dugan - Fiscal
1931: ¿Conoces a tu mujer? - Robert Felton
1931: Mamá (Mommy) - Santiago
1932: Fog
1933: The Man Who Laughed at Love - Juan Herrero
1934: El Café de la Marina - (Castilian version)
1936: Nuestra Natacha - Lalo
1938: Carmen, la de Triana - José Navarro
1939: Carmen fra i rossi - Saverio (Spanish version)
1940: The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez - Don Fernando
1940: Santa Rogelia - Fernando
1942: Capitan Tempesta (Captain Storm) - Lachinsky
1942: Il Leone di Damasco (The Lion of Damascus) - Lachinsky
1942: Goyescas (Goyesque) - Capitán Fernando Pizarro
1944: Lessons in Good Love - Federico Montero
1947: Don Quixote - Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
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 (Revolt of the Slaves) - Rutilius (Rutilio)
1964: Cyrano et d'Artagnan - Cardinal Duc de Richelieu
1964: El Señor de La Salle (Master of the Halls) - Cardenal Noailles
1966: El Greco - Marquis of Villena

Theatre

El nido ajeno (1923)
El bandido de la Sierra (Bandit of the Mountain) (1926)
Carlo Monte in Monte Carlo (Carlo Monte en Monte Carlo) (1939)
La visita que no llamó al timbre (1949)
Al amor hay que mandarlo al colegio (1950)
Criminal de guerra (1951).^[2]
Callados como muertos (1952)
Señora ama (1953)
La mariposa y el ingeniero (1953)
La muralla (The Wall) (1954)
La herida luminosa (1955)
Pepa Doncel (1956)
La herencia (1957)^[3]
Papá se enfada por todo (1959)
Cuidado con las personas formales (1960)
Reinar después de morir (1964)

External links

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

Notes and References

http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1971/12/05/019.html Rafael Rivelles. Por Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena
http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1951/02/17/029.html Estreno de la comedia dramática "Criminal de guerra", de Joaquín Calvo Sotelo
http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1957/12/28/069.html El el Alcázar se estrenó "La herencia", de Joaquín Calvo Sotelo