# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rafael-gil
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:25:04.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rafael-gil"
name: "Rafael Gil"
slug: "rafael-gil"
description: "Rafael Gil was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film I Was a Parish Priest (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. His film La noche del sábado (1950) was nominated for the Gold Lion at the 1950 Venice Film Festival and his film El beso de Judas (1954) was also nominated for the Gold Lion at the 1954 festival in Venice. His film Let's Make the Impossible! (1958) was nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. He has won nine prizes of the National Syndicate of Spectacle of Spain."
tagline: "Film director, screenwriter (1913–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1959_-_Rafael_Gil.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1913-05-22"
deathDate: "1986-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.5
  momentum:             5.471698113207546
  historical:           14.49442266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317856/"
    handle:    "nm0317856"
sources:
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    title: "Хиль, Рафаэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رافاييل جيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Gil_%C3%81lvarez"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Gil"
    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Gil"
    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rafael Gil"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Gil"
    title: "Rafael Gil"
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    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q499951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/234630"
    title: "Rafael Gil"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump