Biography
Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor. His film career peaked in the US in the early 1990s. Born in San Juan, he gained interest in acting while still in school. Upon completing his studies, Juliá decided to pursue a career in acting. After performing in the local scene for some time, he was convinced by entertainment personality Orson Bean to move and work in New York City. Juliá, who had been bilingual since his childhood, soon gained interest...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last w...

Disclosure
2020
as Valentin Arregui (archive footage)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the...

Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman
2008
as Self
Rare documents and details of the film's story. From its initial option to its critical reception and legacy. Director David Weisman, who also produce...

The Dream Studio
2004
as self
A documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 'One From the Heart'.

Down Came a Blackbird
1995
as Tomas Ramirez
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.

Street Fighter
1994
as Bison
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.

Street Fighter
1994
In Memory Of
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.

The Burning Season
1994
as Chico Mendes
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their par...

Addams Family Values
1993
as Gomez Addams
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from...

The Plague
1992
as Cottard
In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city, an idealistic doctor decide...

The Addams Family
1991
as Gomez Addams
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely h...

Havana
1990
as Arturo Duran (uncredited)
During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wif...

The Rookie
1990
as Strom
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result o...

Frankenstein Unbound
1990
as Dr. Victor Frankenstein
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the p...

The Monkey People
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Read by Raul Julia

Presumed Innocent
1990
as Sandy Stern
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fig...

Mack the Knife
1989
as MacHeath
In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves so her...

Romero
1989
as Archbishop Oscar Romero
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate s...

Tequila Sunrise
1988
as Commandante Xavier Escalante
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, whil...

Moon Over Parador
1988
as Roberto Strausmann
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Rob...

The Penitent
1988
as Ramon Guerola
Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village is...

Trading Hearts
1988
as Vinnie Iacona
A baseball-loving small girl decides to hook up her favorite down-on-his-luck baseball player and her mom, a down-on-her-luck lounge singer. Then her ...

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988
as Aristotle Onassis
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealthiest men, detailing his rise to power and unhappy...

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
1987
as General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mex...

Tango Bar
1987
as Ricardo Padín
A fled Tango show owner returns to Buenos Aires to join his partners after the oppressive government of Argentina has dissolved.

The Morning After
1986
as Joaquin "Jackie" Manero
Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and w...

La gran fiesta
1986
as Adolfo
In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The...

Florida Straits
1986
as Carlos Jayne
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a c...
Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
1986
An assessment of the first twenty-five years of the Cuban revolution. PBS Special funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and WNET in New Yo...

Compromising Positions
1985
as David Suarez
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who ha...

Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985
as Valentin Arregui
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his politic...

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
1984
as Aram Fingal / Rick Blaine
A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.

The Making of 'One from the Heart'
1982
as Self
A short documentary on the Francis Ford Coppola musical One From the Heart.

Tempest
1982
as Kalibanos
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in f...

The Escape Artist
1982
as Stu Quiñones
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback show...

Strong Medicine
1981
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday par...

One from the Heart
1981
as Ray
The five-year romance of a window dresser and her boyfriend breaks up, as each of them finds a more interesting partner.

Kiss Me, Petruchio
1981
as Petruchio
A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central ...

Life of Sin
1979
as Paulo
The film dramatizes the life of Isabel "la Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer. Pablo, a Caribbean peasant, and Isabel, a politician's mistress, open a brothel...

Eyes of Laura Mars
1978
as Michael Reisler
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.

The Gumball Rally
1976
as Franco
A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know th...

Death Scream
1975
as Detective Nick Rodriguez
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to h...

King Lear
1974
as Edmund
James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch who insists that his three daughters prove their lo...

The Organization
1971
as Juan Mendoza
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, t...

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
1971
as Juan Carlos Rosenbloom
Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.

The Panic in Needle Park
1971
as Marco
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love ...

Stiletto
1969
as Party Guest (Uncredited)
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds tha...