Rafael Campos


Actor

About

Birth Place
Dominican Republic
Born
May 13, 1936
Died
July 09, 1985
Cause of Death
Cancer

Biography

Prolific Dominican character actor who began his career in the early 1950s in Spanish-language stage productions, on live television dramas and off-Broadway before entering film as a juvenile delinquent in "Blackboard Jungle" (1955), a role in which unfortunately he was typecast for much of his career....

Family & Companions

Dinah Washington
Wife
Singer. Divorced.
Sally Boyd
Wife
Model. Divorced; two daughters together.

Notes

Received the ACE award from the NY Hispanic Press Association for his career achievement in 1980.

Posthumously granted the Golden Eagle Award from NOSOTROS (1985)

Biography

Prolific Dominican character actor who began his career in the early 1950s in Spanish-language stage productions, on live television dramas and off-Broadway before entering film as a juvenile delinquent in "Blackboard Jungle" (1955), a role in which unfortunately he was typecast for much of his career.

Life Events

1949

Immigrated to USA

1955

Film debut, "Blackboard Jungle"

1977

TV series regular on "Rhoda"

Videos

Movie Clip

Trial (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, San Juno Village Beach All-out "ripped from the headlines" scene-setting featuring Rafael Campos (as "Angel") in the dramatic opening of director Mark Robson's Trial, 1955, starring Glenn Ford and Arthur Kennedy.
Trial (1955) -- (Movie Clip) That Meant Me Keep Out! Everybody fighting over young suspect Angel (Rafael Campos) including lawyer Barney (Arthur Kennedy), professor David (Glenn Ford) and mom (Katy Jurado) in an early scene from director Mark Robson's Trial, 1955.
This Could Be The Night (1958) -- (Movie Clip) College Girl From Smith's Manhattan schoolteacher Anne (Jean Simmons) applying for a night club job with Rocco (Paul Douglas), Hussein (Rafael Campos) attending, Patsy (Neile Adams) dropping by and co-owner Tony (Anthony Franciosa) signing off, early in Robert Wise's This Could Be The Night, 1958.
Blackboard Jungle (1955) -- (Movie Clip) We Want Morales! Racism becomes the subject as Dadier (Glenn Ford) officiates and the class (Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, Paul Mazursky et al) chooses Morales (Rafael Campos) to make a recording in Blackboard Jungle, 1955.
Oklahoma Crude (1973) -- (Movie Clip) We Have The Same Hand Director Stanley Kramer's opening, it's not necessarily clear that leading lady Faye Dunaway isn't shooting to kill, and only later clear that her target is John Mills, taking place in 1913, in Oklahoma Crude, 1973, co-starring George C. Scott.
Oklahoma Crude (1973) -- (Movie Clip) About Yesterday Mase (George C. Scott) is the unwanted new hired-man, insisted upon by the still unwelcome Doyle (John Mills), whose daughter Lena (Faye Dunaway) is the undisputed boss of her oil rig, early in Stanley Kramer's Oklahoma Crude, 1913.

Trailer

Companions

Dinah Washington
Wife
Singer. Divorced.
Sally Boyd
Wife
Model. Divorced; two daughters together.

Bibliography

Notes

Received the ACE award from the NY Hispanic Press Association for his career achievement in 1980.

Posthumously granted the Golden Eagle Award from NOSOTROS (1985)