Eduardo Fajardo
Born: 1924-08-14 in Meis, Galicia, Spain
Died: 2019-07-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Eduardo Martínez Fajardo (14 August 1924 – 4 July 2019) was a Spanish film actor born in Meis (Pontevedra), Spain. He appeared in 183 films, 75 plays and made 2,000 television appearances between 1947 and 2002. He was born in Meis, Pontevedra on 14 August 1924, and he raised in Haro and Santander, where he studied Bachillerato. He began his career as a voice actor from 1942 to 1946, and in 1947 he made his film debut in Héroes del 95, directed by Raúl Alfonso. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico, and when he came back to Spain he appeared in spaghetti westerns such as Gli eroi di Fort Worth (1965) by Martin Herbert, and Django (1966) by Sergio Corbucci. In 2002, he founded Teatro sin barreras in Almeria, in order to help people with disabilities. He started the Almeria Walk of Fame, where he received a star on 11 April 2012 due to his intervention in 7th Cavalry and Django. Fajardo was married four times. In Mexico he married twice, one of her with the actress Carmelita González, with whom he bore a daughter, Paloma del Rocío. His others children are José Antonio, Corazón, Lucero, Dusko, Alma and Eduardo. Fajardo died while vacationing with five of his seven children in Mexico on 4 July 2019 at the age of 94. He was honoured by the Diputación de Pontevedra and had been named hijo predilecto del Concello de Meis. In January 2019 he was honoured by the Almería Western Museo del Cine. Source: Article "Eduardo Fajardo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2000
- El bueno, la bomba y el malo as Self
1988
- The Brother from Space as General Bradley
1987
- ¡Esto es un atraco! as Ramón
- Biting Life as Don Fernando
1986
- Tristeza de Amor as Fermín Rivera
1985
- Café, coca y puro as Tío de Pablo
- Bangkok, City of the Dead as Flanagan
1984
- L'Homme de Suez as Mehemet Ali
- Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold as Man-Who-Knows
1983
- Exterminators of the Year 3000 as Senator
- Hundra as Chieftain
- Pájaros de ciudad
1982
- Los Gozos y las Sombras as Fray Eugenio
- Life, Love and Death
- Lake of the Virgins as Sebastián
- Death in the Vatican as Rettore
1981
- Vultures Over the City as Bonardis
- Toda una vida as Arnulfo
- Black Jack as Director of Security
1980
- Nightmare City as Dr. Kramer
- Tres mujeres de hoy as Rafael
1979
- La Barraca as Barret
- The Shark Hunter as Gómez
- Magic Powder as Butler
- The Shack as Barret
1978
- Beyond the End of the World as Profesor Antón del Valle
- Venus de fuego as Padre de Alberto
1977
- The Call of Sex as Sr. Montero
- Las marginadas as Don Fernando
- El despertar de los sentidos as Juan
1976
- Curro Jiménez as Don Rafael
- Mañana Será Otro Día as Don Alfonso de la Riva
- Lucecita
- Girl With The Coral Skin as Barrymore
- Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate as Baron / Duke of Sherwood
- Guapa, rica y... especial as Don Arístides
1975
- Valley of the Dancing Widows as Dynamite Dick
- The House of Exorcism as Francis Lehar (archive footage)
- Convoy Buddies as Monsieur Le Renard
- The Killer Must Kill Again as Inspector
- Ace of Hearts as Edward
- The Adolescents as Ana's Father
- Cross of the Devil as Enrique Carrillo
- Evil Eye as Basev
- Doctor Justice
- The Knave
1974
- The Four Musketeers as Officer
- Lisa and the Devil as Francis Lehar
- Sergeant Berry as Larry Sandor
- A Girl and an Older Man as médico
- The Killer with a Thousand Eyes as Crime Boss Costa
- El último proceso en París as Mr. Dupont
- El último viaje as Comisario Mendoza
- Seven Jackals
1973
- The Three Musketeers of the West as Horatio Maurice DeLuc
- The Counsellor as Calogero Vezza
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Lonely Woman as Lawyer
- Ricco as Cyrano
- Barcelona Kill as El Conde
- Yankee Dudler as Henry
- It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone as Don Alfonso
- Tequila! as Cogan
- The Hyena as Captain Steven
1972
- Sonny and Jed as Don García Moreno
- Knife of Ice as Marcos
- What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? as Pablo Carrasco, el herrero
- The Two Faces of Fear as Luisi
- Murder Mansion as Mr. Tremont
- Father Jackleg as Grant
- Fuenteovejuna
1971
- Delusions of Grandeur as Cortega
- Bad Man's River as General Duarte
- Don't Turn the Other Cheek as Gen. Huerta
- El Bandido Malpelo as Juan Cisneros
- At the End of the Rainbow as Redfield
- Conquest as Virrey Lagasca
1970
- Compañeros as Colonel
- Shango as Major Droster
- Your Sweet Body to Kill as Franz Adler
- Apocalypse Joe as Berg
- El mesón del gitano as Jaime
- Sabata the Killer as Mangosta
- Neurosis
- Transplant of a Brain as Clifton Reynolds
- ¿Quién soy yo? as General Varclano
- Satan's Five Warnings as Leonardo
1969
- Eagles Over London as German officer
- El taxi de los conflictos as Comisario Dieguez
- Cuatro noches de boda as Miguel
- Bootleggers
- Las nenas del mini-mini as Padre de Chalo
- Sharon in Scarlet as Matthews
- They Paid with Bullets: Chicago 1929 as Captain Harper
- Viva Cangaceiro as Governor Branco
- Murders in Chicago as Arthur
- Satan's Profile as Staub
- Cry Chicago as O'Connor
1968
- The Mercenary as Alfonso García
- A Gun for One Hundred Graves as Chavel
- One by One as Sheriff Lyman
- A Stranger in Paso Bravo as Acombar
- Go For Broke as Paco Nunez
- Death Knows No Time as Trevor
- No le busques tres pies... as Juan
- Killer Adios as Sam Ringold
- Los flamencos as Kuis
1967
- Argoman the Fantastic Superman as Chandra, Butler
- Last of the Badmen as Don Jaime Mendoza
- Adios, Hombre as Tilly
- Master Stroke as Mr. Ferrick
- Mission Phantom as General Poniatowski
- Gentleman Killer as Colonel Fernando Ferreras
1966
- Django as Major Jackson
- Ringo's Big Night as Bürgermeister Joseph Finley
- La ciudad no es para mí as Dr. Agustín Valverde hijo
- Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance as Davy
- Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun as Professor Theodore Karleston
- The Tough One as Villiarda
- Trap for Seven Spies as Colonel Riteau
- Operation Apocalypse as Axel
- Pas de panique as Lorenzaccio
1965
- Lone and Angry Man as Russell Murdock
- Assault on Fort Texan as Colonel George Bonnet
- Erik the Viking as Olaf
1964
- I due toreri as L'ispettore N.B.
- Las hijas del Zorro
1963
- Los Invisibles as Jewel Thief
1961
- The Important Man as El Español
1960
- Macario as Virrey
- The Crying Woman as Don Nuño de Montes Claros
1958
- School for Buglars as Eduardo
1957
- Tizoc as Arturo
- La ciudad de los niños
1956
- A Woman's Pride as Ramón Durán
1955
1954
- The Intruder as Raúl Gómez de Fonseca
- Las últimas banderas as Jaime Pardo
1953
- Airport as Espectador (uncredited)
- El Curioso Impertinente as Boccaccio
1952
- Gloria Mairena as Paulino Céspedes
- Near the city as Antonio
1951
- La Leona de Castilla as Tovar
- Dawn of America as Gastón
- Reckless as Mario
1950
- De mujer a mujer as Luis
- Agustina of Aragon as Luis Montana
1949
- El sótano as Juan Bell
- Loyola, the Soldier Saint
- An Ordinary Woman as Ricardo
- La duquesa de Benamejí as Carlos, Marquis of Miraflores
1948
- Locura de amor as Marqués de Villena
- Mare nostrum as Capitán
- Noche de reyes
1947
- Don Quixote as Don Fernando
- Love Charm as Franklin Perry
- La dama del armiño as Don Luis Tristán
- Dulcinea as Ginés de la Hera
- Heroes del 95 as Enrique de Mendoza