Rafael Félix Rivelles Guillén (23 December 1898 — 3 December 1971) was a Spanish actor born in El Cabañal (El Cabanyal), a small town in the province of Valencia, Spain. Son of play actor José Rivelles and play actress Amparo Guillén, he was the father of famous Spanish star Amparo Rivelles. In the 1930s, with the advent of talking films, he went to Hollywood to make Spanish-language versions of American films, but eventually came back to Spain.
Rivelles had two especially notable roles - the title role in Don Quijote de la Mancha, and the Prior in Marcelino pan y vino (1955). He died in Madrid on 3 December 1971 and was interred at the El Cabanyal Cemetery in Valencia along with his father.
Filmography
1914: Prueba trágica
1931: La Mujer X (Lady X) - Luis Floriot
1931: El Embrujo de Sevilla (The Charm of Seville) - Paco Quiñones
1931: El Proceso de Mary Dugan - Fiscal
1931: ¿Conoces a tu mujer? - Robert Felton
1931: Mamá (Mommy) - Santiago
1932: Fog
1933: The Man Who Laughed at Love - Juan Herrero
1934: El Café de la Marina - (Castilian version) 1936: Nuestra Natacha - Lalo 1938: Carmen, la de Triana - José Navarro 1939: Carmen fra i rossi - Saverio (Spanish version) 1940: The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez - Don Fernando 1940: Santa Rogelia - Fernando 1942: Capitan Tempesta (Captain Storm) - Lachinsky 1942: Il Leone di Damasco (The Lion of Damascus) - Lachinsky 1942: Goyescas (Goyesque) - Capitán Fernando Pizarro 1944: Lessons in Good Love - Federico Montero 1947: Don Quixote - Don Quijote (Don Quixote) 1954: Judas' Kiss - Judas Iscariote 1954: He Died Fifteen Years Ago - Coronel Acuña 1955: Marcelino pan y vino - El Padre Superior 1960: La rivolta degli schiavi (Revolt of the Slaves) - Rutilius (Rutilio) 1964: Cyrano et d'Artagnan - Cardinal Duc de Richelieu 1964: El Señor de La Salle (Master of the Halls) - Cardenal Noailles 1966: El Greco - Marquis of Villena
Theatre
El nido ajeno (1923) El bandido de la Sierra (Bandit of the Mountain) (1926) Carlo Monte in Monte Carlo (Carlo Monte en Monte Carlo) (1939) La visita que no llamó al timbre (1949) Al amor hay que mandarlo al colegio (1950) Criminal de guerra (1951). Callados como muertos (1952) Señora ama (1953) La mariposa y el ingeniero (1953) La muralla (The Wall) (1954) La herida luminosa (1955) Pepa Doncel (1956) La herencia (1957) Papá se enfada por todo (1959) Cuidado con las personas formales (1960) Reinar después de morir (1964)
References
External links
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/12826400880173731865846/p0000020.htm Rivelles in Hollywood (Spanish)