Raúl Juliá
Date of birth: 1940-03-09
Place of birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Raul Julia
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 in Broadway and "Off Broadway" plays. He performed in mobile projects, including the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. Juliá was eventually noticed by Joseph Papp, who offered him work in the New York Shakespeare Festival. After gaining notoriety, he received roles in two television series, Love of Life and Sesame Street. For his performance in Two Gentlemen of Verona, he received a nomination for the Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award. Between 1974 and 1982, Juliá received Tony Award nominations for Where's Charley?, The Threepenny Opera and Nine. During the 1980s, he worked in several films, receiving nominations for the Golden Globe Awards, for his performance in Tempest, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for the latter. In 1991 and 1993, Juliá portrayed "Gomez Addams" in two film adaptations of The Addams Family. In 1994, he filmed The Burning Season and a film adaptation of the Street Fighter video games. Later that year, Juliá suffered several health afflictions, eventually dying after suffering a stroke. His funeral was held in Puerto Rico, being attended by thousands. For his work in The Burning Season, Juliá won a posthumous Golden Globe and Emmy Award.
Movie Credits
Frankenstein Unbound
1990-11-02
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time sli
Tequila Sunrise
1988-12-02
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a f
Addams Family Values
1993-11-19
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy ad
The Addams Family
1991-11-22
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a c
Presumed Innocent
1990-07-27
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985-07-26
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Val
The Rookie
1990-12-07
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the
Street Fighter
1994-12-23
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison a
The Morning After
1986-12-25
Failed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize
The Gumball Rally
1976-07-28
A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gum
Moon Over Parador
1988-09-09
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the
Romero
1989-08-25
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador,
The Panic in Needle Park
1971-06-01
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York Ci
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978-08-02
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial kill
One from the Heart
1982-02-11
In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniver
The Plague
1992-08-26
In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the mi
Strong Medicine
1981-11-25
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the peopl
Tempest
1982-08-13
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the succes
Mack the Knife
1989-11-01
In 19th century London, a young girl falls for a womanizing criminal and they decide to wed. Her fam
The Organization
1971-10-20
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,00
The Escape Artist
1982-05-28
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from priso
Florida Straits
1986-10-26
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat ca
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
1971-09-15
Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
Down Came a Blackbird
1995-10-22
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988-05-01
Biography of the life of Aristotle Onassis, a Greek who rose to become one of the world's most wealt
Compromising Positions
1985-08-30
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigat
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
1984-09-22
A futuristic rebel becomes a Humphrey Bogart character after watching repeated reruns of Casablanca.
The Burning Season
1994-09-17
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against governm
Death Scream
1975-09-26
Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witness
Disclosure
2020-06-19
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t
The Dream Studio
2004-01-01
A documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 'One From the Heart'.
La gran fiesta
1986-12-01
In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it
Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt
1986-06-21
An assessment of the first twenty-five years of the Cuban revolution. PBS Special funded by the Corp
Life of Sin
1979-01-01
The film dramatizes the life of Isabel "la Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer. Pablo, a Caribbean peasant, a
Havana
1990-12-11
During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Alon
The Penitent
1988-05-27
Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising a
Tango Bar
1987-04-23
A fled Tango show owner returns to Buenos Aires to join his partners after the oppressive government
Kiss Me, Petruchio
1981-01-07
A documentary about the 1978 stage production of The Taming of the Shrew by the New York City Shakes
Trading Hearts
1988-05-27
A baseball-loving small girl decides to hook up her favorite down-on-his-luck baseball player and he
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
1987-11-11
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy
Stiletto
1969-07-30
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decide
Tangled Web: Making Kiss of the Spider Woman
2008-06-25
Rare documents and details of the film's story. From its initial option to its critical reception an
King Lear
1974-02-20
James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch w
The Making of 'One from the Heart'
1982-08-14
A short documentary on the Francis Ford Coppola musical One From the Heart.
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020-11-26
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (194
The Monkey People
1990-09-01
Read by Raul Julia
Un Recorrido de la Isla de Puerto Rico
1990-06-15
"A Tour of the Island of Puerto Rico" is a film or video documentary produced by the Puerto Rico Tou