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Article: Raul Julia: Prize Actor, Activist // Career Spanned Stage and Films
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 25, 1994
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HOLLYWOOD To moviegoers, Raul Julia was Gomez, the amorous ghoul in
"The Addams Family" and the tormented South American political
prisoner in "Kiss of the Spider Woman."
And to theatergoers, he was Mack the Knife at New York's Lincoln
Center; Guido Contini, the sexy Italian film director in the musical
"Nine," and, most vividly, a good-humored Petruchio to Meryl Streep's
Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew."
Mr. Julia, who died Monday in New York at age 54, was also one
of the first Puerto Ricans to star on Broadway, but his talent was
such that he was hardly ever typecast (he played an Englishman on
Broadway in 1980 in Harold Pinter's "Betrayal").
"He was a wonderful, wonderful person, ...