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| 8 | For tropers, the day that Raúl Juliá got an article in Website/TVTropes was the most important day of TV Tropes' history. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday But for him... it was Tuesday]]. |
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| 10 | [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere His name is Raúl Juliá, and he has seen evil! He has seen horror! He has seen the unholy maggots which feast in the dark recesses of the human soul!]][[labelnote:*]]They're at camp[[/labelnote]] [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere He beheld Satan as he fell from Heaven! Like Lightniiing!!! Raúl Juliá has seen all this, troper. But until today, he has never seen... you!]] |
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| 12 | Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor who gained fame through his stage performances on- and off-Broadway. Indie film lovers will probably know him as Valentine from ''Literature/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'', while mainstream audiences will most likely recognize him from his role as Gomez Addams in the [[Film/TheAddamsFamily two film adaptations]] of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. He was also the lead in the Creator/{{PBS}} B-movie ''Film/OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank'', but don't hold that against him; he only accepted the role because he wanted to support public broadcasting. |
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| 14 | On stage, he was a regular with the New York Shakespeare Festival, which produced the rock musical version of ''Theatre/TwoGentlemenOfVerona'' in which he played Proteus. He also played Guido Contini in the original Broadway production ''Theatre/NineMusical'', and starred in revivals of ''Where's Charley?'', ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'' and ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha''. |
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| 16 | His last big-screen role was in the ''Film/StreetFighter'' movie, where he played BigBad M. Bison with all the [[LargeHam hammy aplomb]] one would expect for a role like that one ([[HamAndCheese in a]] ''[[HamAndCheese movie]]'' [[HamAndCheese like that one]]!). While the movie itself isn't considered quality cinema by any means, many would agree that Juliá's performance alone is enough to make the movie SoBadItsGood instead of merely bad and his performance was praised enough that he received a posthumous nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Film during the 1994 {{MediaNotes/Saturn Award}}s for it. His children were huge fans of the video games, so he selected that role in order to [[SoMyKidsCanWatch give them a film they could enjoy]], knowing that it would likely be the last feature he would ever do, as he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer three years prior. Sadly, he was right, dying of a stroke two months before the film premiered. His actual last appearance was in the TV movie ''Down Came a Blackbird'', which was filmed two weeks before his death, and while on his deathbed (not that he knew it at the time), he was reading through the script for ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', '''literally''' working almost until the last minute. |
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| 18 | Juliá was posthumously given several awards for his performance as Chico Mendes in the 1994 MadeForTVMovie ''The Burning Season''. |
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| 20 | ''"[[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!]]"'' |
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| 23 | !!Roles on TV Tropes: |
| 24 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:Film roles]] |
| 27 | * ''Film/ThePanicInNeedlePark'' (1971) as Marco |
| 28 | * ''Film/TheOrganization'' (1971) as Juan Mendoza |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheGumballRally'' (1976) as Franco Bertollini |
| 30 | * ''Film/EyesOfLauraMars'' (1978) as Michael Reisler |
| 31 | * ''Film/OneFromTheHeart'' (1982) as Ray |
| 32 | * ''Film/OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank'' (1983) as Aram Fingal |
| 33 | * ''Film/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'' (1985) as Valentin Arregui |
| 34 | * ''Film/MoonOverParador'' (1988) as Roberto Strausmann |
| 35 | * ''Film/TequilaSunrise'' (1988) as Commandante Xavier Escalante / Carlos |
| 36 | * ''Film/PresumedInnocent'' (1990) as Alejandro "Sandy" Stern |
| 37 | * ''Film/{{The Rookie|1990}}'' (1990) as Ulrich Sigmund Strom |
| 38 | * ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' (1991) as Gomez Addams |
| 39 | ** ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' (1993) |
| 40 | * ''Literature/ThePlague'' (1992) as Cottard |
| 41 | * ''Film/StreetFighter'' (1994) as General M. Bison |
| 42 | [[/folder]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[folder:Television roles]] |
| 45 | * ''Series/LoveOfLife'' (1969) as Miguel Garcia |
| 46 | * ''Series/{{McCloud}}'' (1970) as Father Nieves |
| 47 | * ''Series/SesameStreet'' (1971–72) as Rafael the Repairman[[note]] Juliá's character was one of the owners of the R&L Fix-It Shop, alongside Emilio Delgado's Luis. Juliá left after one season and Delgado stayed on ''Sesame Street'' for 45 years.[[/note]] |
| 48 | * ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'' (1974) as Gregory Robinson |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Theatre roles]] |
| 52 | * ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' (1967) as Demetrius |
| 53 | * ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' (1971) as Orlando |
| 54 | * ''Theatre/TwoGentlemenOfVerona'' (1971–73) as Proteus |
| 55 | * ''Theatre/KingLear'' (1973) as Edmund |
| 56 | * ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'' (1976–77) as Captain Macheath |
| 57 | * ''Theatre/TheCherryOrchard'' (1977) as Lopakhin Ermolai Alekseevich |
| 58 | * ''Theatre/{{Dracula|1924}}'' (1977–80) as Count Dracula |
| 59 | * ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' (1978) as Petruchio |
| 60 | * ''Theatre/{{Betrayal}}'' (1979–80) as Jerry |
| 61 | * ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' (1979, 1991) as Othello |
| 62 | * ''Theatre/TheTempest'' (1981) as Prospero |
| 63 | * ''Theatre/{{Nine|Musical}}'' (1982) as Guido Contini |
| 64 | * ''Theatre/ArmsAndTheMan'' (1985) as Major Sergius Saranoff |
| 65 | * ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' (1989–90) as Lord Macbeth |
| 66 | * ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'' (1992) as Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
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| 70 | !!Tropes associated with Raúl Juliá: |
| 71 | * AuthorAppeal: Although born and raised in San Juan, New York was his chosen home, and he loved it through and through. He thus preferred working in the Big Apple whenever possible. |
| 72 | * {{Determinator}}: Not even stomach cancer could keep this man from acting. |
| 73 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: Both in real life and on screen, as he was literally dying from stomach cancer, and yet gave one of the most iconic performances in video game movie history in [[Film/StreetFighter M. Bison]], who moments before dying delivers a speech that if it were any hammier you would hear it oinking. |
| 74 | --> "You still refuse to ''accept''... my godhood? KEEP your own God! In fact, this might be a good time to pray to Him! [[IncomingHam For I beheld Satan]] '''[[LargeHam as he FELL FROM HEAVEN!]]'''... '''''[[ChewingTheScenery LIKE LIIIIIIGHTNIIIIIING!!!]]'''''" |
| 75 | * EyeScream: Anjelica Huston once recounted how during the filming of ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/addams-family-values-had-secret-political-message-reveals-writer-1162918 Raúl's eye inexplicably fell out of its socket]]. He just put it back in and got on with the job. |
| 76 | * FakeNationality: Played Brazilians in ''Literature/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'' and ''The Burning Season'', an English criminal in ''Mack the Knife'', an Italian race car driver in ''Film/TheGumballRally'', and a German crime boss in ''[[Film/TheRookie1990 The Rookie]]''. |
| 77 | * LargeHam: [[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!]] Who can also forget '''[[Film/StreetFighter "GAAAAAAAME OOOOOVEEEERRR!!!"]]?''' |
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| 80 | -->''"Vaya con Dios."'' |
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