Raúl Juliá

Raúl Juliá

1940-03-09 San Juan, Puerto Rico 48 Credits

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...

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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

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

Disclosure

2020

as Valentin Arregui (archive footage)

7.9
Acting

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

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

2019

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

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

Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman

2008

as Self

8.5
Acting

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

The Dream Studio

2004

as self

Acting

A documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 'One From the Heart'.

Down Came a Blackbird

Down Came a Blackbird

1995

as Tomas Ramirez

8.2
Acting

A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.

Street Fighter

Street Fighter

1994

as Bison

4.6
Acting

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

Street Fighter

Street Fighter

1994

In Memory Of

4.6

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

The Burning Season

The Burning Season

1994

as Chico Mendes

6.2
Acting

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

Addams Family Values

1993

as Gomez Addams

7.0
Acting

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

The Plague

1992

as Cottard

5.8
Acting

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

The Addams Family

1991

as Gomez Addams

7.1
Acting

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

Havana

1990

as Arturo Duran (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

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

The Rookie

1990

as Strom

5.9
Acting

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

Frankenstein Unbound

1990

as Dr. Victor Frankenstein

5.7
Acting

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

The Monkey People

1990

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

Read by Raul Julia

Presumed Innocent

Presumed Innocent

1990

as Sandy Stern

6.8
Acting

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

Mack the Knife

1989

as MacHeath

6.6
Acting

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

Romero

1989

as Archbishop Oscar Romero

7.0
Acting

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

Tequila Sunrise

1988

as Commandante Xavier Escalante

6.1
Acting

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

Moon Over Parador

1988

as Roberto Strausmann

5.8
Acting

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

The Penitent

1988

as Ramon Guerola

6.0
Acting

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

Trading Hearts

1988

as Vinnie Iacona

3.0
Acting

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

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World

1988

as Aristotle Onassis

6.6
Acting

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

The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory

1987

as General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

6.2
Acting

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

Tango Bar

1987

as Ricardo Padín

5.5
Acting

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

The Morning After

The Morning After

1986

as Joaquin "Jackie" Manero

5.9
Acting

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

La gran fiesta

1986

as Adolfo

5.8
Acting

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

Florida Straits

1986

as Carlos Jayne

5.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Compromising Positions

1985

as David Suarez

5.5
Acting

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

Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985

as Valentin Arregui

7.1
Acting

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

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

1984

as Aram Fingal / Rick Blaine

2.7
Acting

A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.

The Making of 'One from the Heart'

The Making of 'One from the Heart'

1982

as Self

8.0
Acting

A short documentary on the Francis Ford Coppola musical One From the Heart.

Tempest

Tempest

1982

as Kalibanos

6.0
Acting

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

The Escape Artist

1982

as Stu Quiñones

6.2
Acting

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

Strong Medicine

1981

5.6
Acting

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

One from the Heart

1981

as Ray

6.0
Acting

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

Kiss Me, Petruchio

1981

as Petruchio

5.5
Acting

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

Life of Sin

1979

as Paulo

5.0
Acting

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

Eyes of Laura Mars

1978

as Michael Reisler

5.9
Acting

A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.

The Gumball Rally

The Gumball Rally

1976

as Franco

6.2
Acting

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

Death Scream

1975

as Detective Nick Rodriguez

6.6
Acting

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

King Lear

1974

as Edmund

Acting

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

The Organization

1971

as Juan Mendoza

5.9
Acting

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

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

1971

as Juan Carlos Rosenbloom

3.2
Acting

Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.

The Panic in Needle Park

The Panic in Needle Park

1971

as Marco

6.8
Acting

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

Stiletto

1969

as Party Guest (Uncredited)

5.2
Acting

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...