Rafael Durán

Acting

Rafael Durán

Born — Died

1911-12-15 — 1994-02-12

Place of birth

Madrid, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Rafael Durán Espayaldo (1911-1994) was a Spanish film actor.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 16 titles

The Adventures of Scaramouche poster
5.9

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...

The Adventures of Scaramouche

1963

El escándalo poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

El escándalo

1964

Currito de la Cruz poster
6.5

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.

Currito de la Cruz

1965

The Castilian poster
10.0

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 Castilian

1963

Un ángel tuvo la culpa poster
6.5

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.

Un ángel tuvo la culpa

1960

La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía poster
5.8

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.

La vida nueva de Pedrito de Andía

1965

Una chica de Chicago poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Una chica de Chicago

1960

El pobre García poster
8.0

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.

El pobre García

1961

Fontana di Trevi poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fontana di Trevi

1960

La cesta poster
7.2

In a quaint Spanish village, a festive raffle for a Christmas basket takes an unexpected turn when its lottery ticket wins “El Gordo” before the draw. Suddenly, the humble prize becomes a fortune, and Don Carmelo—a greedy local bigwig—will stop at nothing to claim it. With charm, wit, and a touch of satire, this nostalgic comedy unravels a web of small-town schemes, revealing how far people will go when luck strikes early

La cesta

1965

Isidro el labrador poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Isidro el labrador

1964

Los cuervos poster
5.8

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.

Los cuervos

1962

Los guerrilleros poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Los guerrilleros

1963

Bochorno poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bochorno

1963

La quiniela poster
5.2

Don Cándido is a modest old office clerk who makes his first pool coming off of a bad streak at work. He has thirteen hits and wins a considerable sum of money. This causes him to be blinded by ambition, changing his character, spreading his newfound hobby to his family, and gambling becoming the center of his life.

La quiniela

1960

Viento del sur poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viento del sur

1964

1950s · 18 titles

Legions of the Nile poster
5.3

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.

Legions of the Nile

1959

Babes in Bagdad poster
5.8

The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.

Babes in Bagdad

1952

No artwork available
7.0

A short documentary directed by Jesus Franco.

Oro español

1959

The Warrior and the Slave Girl poster
6.7

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Asclepius. 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 Warrior and the Slave Girl

1958

Ha desaparecido un pasajero poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ha desaparecido un pasajero

1953

Jeromín poster
8.0

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.

Jeromín

1953

La noche del sábado poster
5.6

Rome, Italy, February 1900. While a malaria epidemic sweeps the city, the young and beautiful Donina meets Leonardo, an ambitious sculptor, who makes her his model.

La noche del sábado

1950

El piyayo poster
6.2

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.

El piyayo

1956

Esa voz es una mina poster
5.3

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.

Esa voz es una mina

1956

We Are All Necessary poster
6.2

After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child abandoned by his father, a millionaire.

We Are All Necessary

1956

Maravilla poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Maravilla

1957

The Seventh Page poster
9.0

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 Seventh Page

1951

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los ojos en las manos

1956

The Great Galeoto poster
6.0

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.

The Great Galeoto

1951

Sin uniforme poster
9.0

Several different people meet in Tangier, where they will have to join efforts to survive.

Sin uniforme

1950

El pasado te acusa poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

El pasado te acusa

1958

La lupa poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

La lupa

1955

General road poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

General road

1956

1940s · 17 titles

La vida en un hilo poster
6.1

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.

La vida en un hilo

1945

La condesa María poster
6.3

A romantic melodrama

La condesa María

1942

Don Quixote poster
6.0

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.

Don Quixote

1947

Loyola, the Soldier Saint poster
7.2

A historical drama based on St. Ignatius of Loyola as a Warrior, as a Founder of the Jesuit Order and as a Saint .

Loyola, the Soldier Saint

1949

Ella, él y sus millones poster
6.3

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.

Ella, él y sus millones

1944

Tuvo la culpa Adán poster
9.0

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.

Tuvo la culpa Adán

1944

El destino se disculpa poster
5.8

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.

El destino se disculpa

1945

La boda de Quinita Flores poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La boda de Quinita Flores

1943

The Faith poster
7.4

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.

The Faith

1947

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro poster
5.8

Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.

Eloísa está debajo de un almendro

1943

La pródiga poster
7.0

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 pródiga

1946

Un viaje de novios poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un viaje de novios

1948

El 13-13 poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El 13-13

1943

The Nail poster
6.0

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.

The Nail

1944

Três Espelhos poster
7.4

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.

Três Espelhos

1947

Paz poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Paz

1949

La gran barrera poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La gran barrera

1947