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Spanish actress
A.K.A.
Rafaela Díaz Valiente
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
9 April 1906(Marbella, Málaga Province, Andalusia, Spain)
Death:
9 June 1996(Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Rafaela Díaz Valiente (9 April 1906 – 9 June 1996) better known as Rafaela Aparicio was a famous Spanish film and theatre actress.
She made more than 100 films. The most remembered are Carlos Saura's Anna and the Wolves, Mama Turns 100 and Fernando Fernán Gómez's El extraño viaje. She died of a stroke in Madrid in a retirement home.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Juan Simón's Daughter | Gregoria | |
| 1956 | The Big Lie | La Molina neighbour | |
| 1957 | The Last Torch Song | Singer | |
| 1958 | La vida por delante | ||
| 1959 | La vida alrededor | ||
| 1960 | The Football Lottery | ||
| 1962 | Atraco a las tres | ||
| 1962 | The Mustard Grain | ||
| 1963 | The Daughters of Helena | ||
| 1964 | El extraño viaje | Paquita Vidal | |
| 1965 | Television Stories | Don Marcelino's maid | |
| 1966 | He's My Man! | Mrs. Calixta | |
| 1967 | Love in Flight | ||
| 1967 | Another's Wife | ||
| 1968 | Cristina Guzmán | Balbina | |
| 1973 | Anna and the Wolves | The mother | |
| 1977 | Change of Sex | Pilar | |
| 1979 | Mama Turns 100 | The mother | |
| 1983 | The South | Milagros | |
| 1985 | Padre nuestro | ||
| 1986 | Year of Enlightment | Rafaela | |
| 1989 | The Sea and the Weather | Grandmother |