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1940–1994 · Santurce · Film • Theater

Born March 9, 1944 in San Juan. Juliá proved his versatility on both stage and screen. Raul Julia made his New York City debut in 1964 in a Spanish-language play. He worked on: Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Macbeth (1966), Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971) for which he won the first of his four Tony nominations, Mack the Knife in The Threepenny Opera (1976). Julia's film career, which began in 1971, ran the gamut from the comic--The Gumball Rally (1976), The Addams Family (1991), and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993)--to the biographical--Romero (1988), in which he played the Salvadoran archbishop, and The Burning Season (1994), about Brazilian labor leader Chico Mendes--to the tragic--Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985). He died on October 24, 1994 in New York.