Julia, Raul (1940-1994)

US film actor. He became popular shortly before his death for his mockingly stylish embodiment of Gomez in two films derived from the Charles Addams cartoons, The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). The first film role in which he achieved a significant impact was opposite William Hurt as a jailed political activist in a totalitarian South American state in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985).

Julia went on to appear in a number of other films, including The Morning After (1986), Moon Over Parador (1988), and as Harrison Ford's defence lawyer in Presumed Innocent (1990).

Julia was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He began to act at university and subsequently moved to New York. In 1966 he made the first of many appearances in Shakespearean productions by Joseph Papp's New York company, and during the 1970s appeared in a range of Broadway productions, encompassing the classics and such musicals as Where's Charley? (1974) and Nine (1982). He became known to a different audience with his appearances on the children's television series Sesame Street, and from 1971 onwards had numerous minor film roles.