Raul Roulien

Raul Roulien

ActorDirectorProducer Oct 8 (died age 94) Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1931–1970 (39 year career)
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Biography

Raul Salvador Intini Pepe Roulien (7 October 1904 – 8 September 2000), known professionally as Raul Roulien, was a Brazilian actor, singer, screenwriter and film director.[1] He is widely considered the first male Brazilian star in Hollywood. He worked briefly in Hollywood in the waning days of the American movies' embrace of the "Latin lover" (a title invented for the Italian actor Rudolph Valentino), a phenomenon that encouraged the Jewish-American actor Jacob Krantz to change his name to Ric…