
Acting
Raphael
Born
1943-05-05 (83)
Place of birth
Linares, Spain
Known for
Acting
Credits
42 titles
Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez, simply referred to as Raphael, is a Spanish singer and television, film and theater actor. Raphael is recognized as one of the most successful Spanish singers in the world. He is nicknamed both El Ruiseñor de Linares, El Divo de Linares and El Niño. His family moved to Madrid when he was nine months old, and he started singing when he was just three. He joined a children's choir at age four. When he was nine, he was recognized as the best child voice in Europe at a contest in Salzburg, Austria. His two idols were US singer Elvis Presley and French diva Edith Piaf. He began his professional career by singing with the Dutch record label Philips. He adopted his own…
Known for
5.5Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.
Mentiras verdaderas
2011
4.7El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
El hormiguero
2006
4.7A yearly musical contest organized by the municipality of Viña del Mar, Chile which takes place during the last week of February at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater since February 21, 1960.
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
1963
6.7Reality-show talent contest aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their paces by getting them to sing a variety of cover versions of popular songs, with tutoring from various professionals.
Operación triunfo
2001
3.3No synopsis available yet.
Victoires de la musique
1985
5.7Star Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It is broadcast on TF1. At the end of each season, selected contestants would go on tour around France, Morocco, Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia, and other French-speaking countries.
Star Academy
2001
Film credits
2020s · 7 titles
8.0Raphael is one of the most prolific, followed & adored spanish artists in the world. This documentary takes us across his childhood, early years, his home & family, glory, transplant and reinvention as singer & actor in 60 yrs of legacy.
Raphaelismo
2022
7.0The morning of the 28th of March, 1977, the news broke out that the prestigious composer of "Ode to joy", Waldo de los Ríos, was found dead with two gunshots to the face. This documentary is a project trying to decipher all the secrets behind the public figure of the celebrated Argentinian musician, who lived in Spain since the 60s. During the investigation, we find a life of fame, luxury, passion, homophobia, dictatorship, esotericism, depression, solitud, an enigmatic suicide... and oblivion. We try to understand how one of the biggest composers of universal history transformed his own life into a requiem. From home-movies, photographs, personal letters, audio tapes and other inedit material, the documentary presents the most intimate and hidden portrait of this revolutionary musical genius.
Waldo
2024
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Carlos Rivera: leyendas
2022
3.5An account of the life and work of the singer and songwriter Miguel Ríos, pioneer and true icon of Spanish rock music.
Cruce de caminos
2022
NRThe fantastic story of how in 1970 the Spanish singer Raphael became a renowned artist in the Soviet Union, where he held concerts that attracted huge crowds, despite the Cold War and the systematic veto that the authorities normally imposed on artists from the other side of the implacable Iron Curtain.
Raphael: desde Rusia con amor
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Homenaje María Teresa Campos
2024
4.0Raphael performs some of his greatest hits and songs from his newest album alongside artists such as Pablo López, Nathy Peluso, Mónica Naranjo, Ricardo Montaner, Guitarricadelafuente, Fredi Leis, Israel Fernández, and Ana Mena.
Raphael, de tanta gente
2022
2010s · 3 titles
6.7A trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
The Last Circus
2010
5.4Coslada, near Madrid, Spain, October 2015. Hundreds of extras are trapped in a huge stage where they pretend with hysterical joy that they are celebrating a party that will be broadcast on television on New Year's Eve. But more than a week later, the clash between several staff members threatens to prolong indefinitely such a maddening nightmare.
My Big Night
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ven a mi casa esta Navidad
2015
2000s · 3 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rocío Siempre
2006
NRPerformed at Las Ventas Spain, In celebration of Raphael's 50th anniversary as a performer, this comprehensive collection offers incredible videos from throughout his career. The vaunted Spanish singer and actor first hit the stage as a toddler, and has since played with the biggest Latin artists such as Juanes, Rocio Jurado, Miguel Bose, and many more. 50 ANOS DESPUES features 18 hits including "A Mia Minera," "Cantares," and "Adoro."
Raphael: 50 años después - En directo y al completo
2009
No synopsis available yet.
Todo melódicos
2006
1980s · 1 titles
1970s · 4 titles
7.5This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of Mary Stuart. “The drama of a woman who attempted a kind of liberal emancipation in a time of upheaval, but got caught in the snares of men,” in her words. Confronted with layers and layers of conflicting information about “how it really was” Mikesch decided not to try to be a historian, but to radicalise the narrative and condense it into striking images of passion, power, love, pain and death.
Exekution: A Study of Mary
1979
6.2Mario Leyva, famous singer in full glory harassed every day more for his "fans", takes the life that they allow him, dedicated to his art and directed professionally by his "manager". His popularity makes him be mixed in the advertising of a brand of cigarettes by advertising phrases that repeat themselves in all the languages.
Sin un adiós
1970
6.3Mónica, the manager and wife of singer Álex, plans a publicity stunt that goes awry. When her husband shoots a rival singer with a gun supposedly filled with blanks, the singer is killed with live ammo. Álex and Mónica then goes into hiding while trying to find out who set them up.
Volveré a nacer
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rafael en Raphael
1975
1960s · 6 titles
7.0Raphael plays a singer who searches for his classical pianist brother in Buenos Aires, with the brother eventually revealed playing in the squalid bar.
Let Them Talk
1968
6.3Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.
El golfo
1969
7.0Twins separated at birth are reunited 12 years later.
The Twins
1963
9.5A Spanish singer, known as "El Ángel", owner of a nightclub, lives a double life as an expert in alarms for gangs of thieves. In his last robbery, he betrays his partners, and his lover is kidnapped and he is blackmailed. Thinking that she has betrayed him, he abandons her to her fate. Finally, she committed suicide. El Ángel reconsiders his life and decides to become a monk. But his former life will meet him within the walls of the monastery.
The Angel
1969
5.5The film is slightly autobiographical, Raphael is trying to find fame and fortune as a popular singer in Spain until he teams up with an up and coming Spanish composer which helps him become a popular singer in Spain.
When You Are Not Here
1966
6.5A famous singer and actor is at the peak of his career but fatigue, stress and harassment of the media makes feel unbalanced. His star began to fall rapidly and so goes into a clinic to cure his pain. Coming out, away from his audience, will spend some time at a house that is in the North, to the seashore. There he feels haunted by the story of characters who have lived in a nearby house, in one of which identifies his former secretary.
Al ponerse el sol
1967
Series credits
5.5Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.
Mentiras verdaderas
2011
4.7El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
El hormiguero
2006
4.7El Hormiguero is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and politics running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & "The Man in Black", and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas. It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on September 17, 2007. The show won the Entertainment prize at the 2009 Rose d'Or ceremony.
El hormiguero
2006
4.7A yearly musical contest organized by the municipality of Viña del Mar, Chile which takes place during the last week of February at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater since February 21, 1960.
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
1963
6.7Reality-show talent contest aimed to find the country's next solo singing sensation, putting a selection of hopefuls through their paces by getting them to sing a variety of cover versions of popular songs, with tutoring from various professionals.
Operación triunfo
2001
3.3No synopsis available yet.
Victoires de la musique
1985
5.7Star Academy is a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It is broadcast on TF1. At the end of each season, selected contestants would go on tour around France, Morocco, Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia, and other French-speaking countries.
Star Academy
2001
7.5La Voz is a Spanish reality talent show that premiered on 19 September 2012 on Telecinco. It is part of the international syndication The Voice based on the original Dutch television program The Voice of Holland, created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. One of the important premises of the show is the quality of the singing talent. Four coaches, themselves popular performing artists, train the talents in their group and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the audition. The series is hosted by Jesús Vázquez, with Tania Llasera as social media correspondent. The original judging panel consisted of David Bisbal, Rosario Flores, Malú and Melendi as the four coaches. In the second season, Antonio Orozco replaced Melendi.
The Voice Spain
2012
7.7Cachitos de hierro y cromo is a Spanish musical-themed documentary program, directed by Jero Rodríguez and hosted by Virginia Díaz. It is an unapologetic musical display of RTVE's sound legacy in the form of performances on the set of programs such as 'Aplauso', 'Galas del Sábado', 'Mapa Sonoro', 'Zona Franca' or 'Los Conciertos de Radio 3'. For nearly 60 years, artists and other specimens have stormed viewers' screens. The result is a polyphony of images and memories that includes everything from James Brown to Camela, from Perales to REM, from Gabinete to Violent Femmes. And so all the time. Our secret weapon has been the historical archive of TVE, the repository of Spanish collective memory for more than half a century.
Cachitos de hierro y cromo
2013
No synopsis available yet.
Viva el lunes
1995
5.1No synopsis available yet.
Tierra de talento
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Siempre lunes
1988
5.5'Alaska Revelada' is an approach to the artist's personal and professional life from a place of intimacy until now unknown. The metamorphosis of a pop icon who has not stopped reinventing himself throughout the different stages of his life. Always an advocate of transforming her body to also build her interior, in 'Salud' we explore what the journey has been like since she was a child to achieve a physical and spiritual transformation. In 'Money' we travel through the vast professional life of Alaska, full of high points of fame and money, as well as absolute economic ruins. In 'Amor' we structure Olvido's relationships with the other. The figure of his father, his relationship with his former manager Pito Cubillas, his great friendship with Nacho Canut and the great love of his life, Mario Vaquerizo. A documentary series articulated like a bolero along three concepts that define all human life: health, money and love.
Alaska Revelada
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sabias a lo que venías
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La Casa de la Música
2025
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Prodigios
2019
6.0No synopsis available yet.
B.S.O. con Emilio Aragón
2021
8.0A Mexican telenovela directed by Antulio Jiménez Pons for Canal de las Estrellas in 1978.
Where the road ends
1978

