Raul Julia

Highest Rated: 87% Presumed Innocent (1990)

Lowest Rated: 11% Street Fighter (1994)

Birthday: Mar 9, 1940

Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Born to a prosperous Puerto Rican family, suave and handsome leading man Raul Julia acted in school plays and in college before coming to the U.S. in 1964. After studying drama with Wynn Handman, he made his New York stage debut in 1964 in a Spanish play. In 1966 he began a long association with Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival. After debuting onscreen in The Organization (1971) with Sidney Poitier, he did another film the same year, then went until 1976 before getting another screen role; meanwhile he built his reputation on stage and TV, and frequently appeared on the children's educational show Sesame Street. For his portrayal of Macheath in The Threepenny Opera, Julia won a Tony award. His screen career did not take off until the early '80s, when Francis Ford Coppola enlisted him for the short-lived Zoetrope Studios stock company; he went on to appear in Coppola's One from the Heart (1982). The role for which Julia received the most acclaim was as a political prisoner in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985). Although never making it into the realm of stardom, he sustained a busy screen career; he appeared in five films released in 1988 and four in 1990. He gained recognition from a younger generation for his portrayal of Gomez Addams in the popular comedy The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel. Julia died suddenly shortly after the filming of Streetfighter in 1994.

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Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	Raúl Juliá: The World's a Stage	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	MC Hammer: 2 Legit - The Videos	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Down Came a Blackbird	Tomas	—	1995
11%	Street Fighter	Bison	—	1994
No Score Yet	The Burning Season	Chico Mendes	—	1994
76%	Addams Family Values	Gomez Addams	—	1993
No Score Yet	The Plague (La Peste)	Cottard	—	1992
No Score Yet	A Life of Sin	Paulo	—	1992
64%	The Addams Family	Gomez Addams	—	1991
No Score Yet	Rabbit Ears: The Monkey People	Narrator	—	1991
29%	The Rookie	Strom	—	1990
44%	Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound	Dr. Victor Frankenstein	—	1990
87%	Presumed Innocent	Sandy Stern	—	1990
28%	Havana	Arturo Duran	—	1990
78%	Romero	Romero	—	1989
20%	Mack the Knife	MacHeath	—	1989
40%	Tequila Sunrise	Carlos/Commandante Escalante	—	1988
No Score Yet	Tango Bar	Ricardo	—	1988
42%	Moon over Parador	Roberto Strausmann	—	1988
No Score Yet	Onassis: The Richest Man in the World	Aristotle Onassis	—	1988
No Score Yet	The Penitent	Ramon Guerola	—	1988
No Score Yet	The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory	Santa Anna	—	1987
No Score Yet	Trading Hearts	Vinnie Iacona	—	1987
No Score Yet	Florida Straits	Carlos Jayne	—	1987
71%	The Morning After	Joaquin Manero	—	1986
No Score Yet	Mussolini: The Untold Story	Galeazzo	—	1985
85%	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Valentin Arregui	—	1985
56%	Compromising Positions	David Suarez	—	1985
20%	Overdrawn at the Memory Bank	Aram Fingal : Rick Blaine	—	1983
60%	Tempest	Kalibanos	—	1982
No Score Yet	The Escape Artist	Stu Quinones	—	1982
50%	One From the Heart	Ray	—	1982
46%	Eyes of Laura Mars	Michael Reisler	—	1978
30%	The Gumball Rally	Franco	—	1976
No Score Yet	Death Scream	Rodriguez	—	1975
No Score Yet	King Lear	Edmund	—	1974
40%	The Organization	Juan Mendoza	—	1971
85%	The Panic in Needle Park	Marco	—	1971
No Score Yet	Stiletto	Actor	—	1969
No Score Yet	The House of Magical Sounds	Narrator	—	1937

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	American Playhouse 1982-1996		1985
No Score Yet	The Bob Newhart Show 1972-1978	Greg Robinson	1974

QUOTES FROM Raul Julia CHARACTERS

Bison says: You've made me a happy man.

Col. Guile says: Next, I'll make you a dead one.

Bison says: Of Course!

Bison says: Of course!

Sagat says: Guile, alive?

Bison says: Of course! His death was designed to ingratiate his spies with you.

Bison says: I guess you didn't see that did you!

Sandy Stern says: I believe Larren today did what he thought was just. You tell me, Rusty. Was justice done?

Sagat says: Guile? Alive?

Bison says: Of course! His "death" was meant to integrate his sspies with you. I guess you didn't see that, did you? [While mockingly covering one eye]

Bison says: Of course! His 'death' was meant to integrate his spies with you. I guess you didn't see that, did you? [while mockingly covering one eye]

Bison says: For you; The day Bison graced your village was the most important day in you life. But for me... it was tuesday.

Bison says: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

Col. Guile says: Your weapon...Bison. What happen to the purity of unarmed combat?

Col. Guile says: No weapon, Bison? What happened to the purity of unarmed combat?

Bison says: This is merely superconductor electromagnetism. Surely you've heard of it. It levitates bullet trains from Tokyo to Osaka. It levitates my desk, where I ride the saddle of the world. And it levitates...me!