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
- Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold as Man-Who-Knows
- L'Homme de Suez as Mehemet Ali
1983
- Hundra as Chieftain
- Pájaros de ciudad
- Exterminators of the Year 3000 as Senator
1982
- El lago de las vírgenes as Sebastián
- Life, Love and Death
- Death in the Vatican as Rettore
- Los Gozos y las Sombras as Fray Eugenio
1981
- Black Jack as Director of Security
- Toda una vida as Arnulfo
1980
- Vultures Over the City as Bonardis
- Tres mujeres de hoy as Rafael
- Nightmare City as Dr. Kramer
1979
- The Shack as Barret
- Magic Powder as Butler
- The Shark Hunter as Gómez
- La Barraca as Barret
1978
- Venus de fuego as Padre de Alberto
- Beyond the End of the World as Profesor Antón del Valle
1977
- The Call of Sex as Sr. Montero
- El despertar de los sentidos as Juan
- Las marginadas as Don Fernando
1976
- Curro Jiménez as Don Rafael
- Lucecita
- Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate as Baron / Duke of Sherwood
- La ragazza dalla pelle di corallo as Barrymore
- Guapa, rica y... especial as Don Arístides
1975
- The Adolescents as Ana's Father
- Doctor Justice
- Cross of the Devil as Enrique Carrillo
- Evil Eye as Basev
- The Knave
- The House of Exorcism as Francis Lehar (archive footage)
- Ace of Hearts as Edward
- Valley of the Dancing Widows as Dynamite Dick
- Convoy Buddies as Monsieur Le Renard
- The Killer Must Kill Again as Inspector
1974
- The Four Musketeers as Officer
- The Killer with a Thousand Eyes as Crime Boss Costa
- El último proceso en París as Mr. Dupont
- Una chica y un señor as médico
- El último viaje as Comisario Mendoza
- Sergeant Berry as Larry Sandor
- Seven Jackals
1973
- Ricco as Cyrano
- The Hyena as Captain Steven
- Counselor at Crime as Calogero Vezza
- Barcelona Kill as El Conde
- Tequila! as Cogan
- Lisa and the Devil as Francis Lehar
- The Scarlet Letter
- The Three Musketeers of the West as Horatio Maurice DeLuc
- Yankee Dudler as Henry
- It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone as Don Alfonso
- The Lonely Woman as Lawyer
1972
- Fuenteovejuna
- Murder Mansion as Mr. Tremont
- Father Jackleg as Grant
- The Two Faces of Fear as Luisi
- 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
1971
- Conquest as Virrey Lagasca
- Delusions of Grandeur as Cortega
- Bad Man's River as General Duarte
- At the End of the Rainbow as Redfield
- Don't Turn the Other Cheek as Gen. Huerta
- El Bandido Malpelo as Juan Cisneros
1970
- Sabata the Killer as Mangosta
- ¿Quién soy yo? as General Varclano
- El mesón del gitano as Jaime
- Transplant of a Brain as Clifton Reynolds
- Compañeros as Colonel
- Shango as Major Droster
- Your Sweet Body to Kill as Franz Adler
- Neurosis
- Satan's Five Warnings as Leonardo
- Apocalypse Joe as Berg
1969
- Cry Chicago as O'Connor
- El taxi de los conflictos as Comisario Dieguez
- They Paid with Bullets: Chicago 1929 as Captain Harper
- Las nenas del mini-mini as Padre de Chalo
- Satan's Profile as Staub
- Eagles Over London as German officer
- Murders in Chicago as Arthur
- Cuatro noches de boda as Miguel
- Sharon vestida de rojo as Matthews
- Bootleggers
- Viva Cangaceiro as Governor Branco
1968
- The Mercenary as Alfonso García
- Killer Adios as Sam Ringold
- Go For Broke as Paco Nunez
- A Stranger in Paso Bravo as Acombar
- Death Knows No Time as Trevor
- No le busques tres pies... as Juan
- A Gun for One Hundred Graves as Chavel
- Los flamencos as Kuis
- One by One as Sheriff Lyman
1967
- Last of the Badmen as Don Jaime Mendoza
- Argoman the Fantastic Superman as Chandra, Butler
- Gentleman Killer as Colonel Fernando Ferreras
- Mission Phantom as General Poniatowski
- Adios, Hombre as Tilly
- Master Stroke as Mr. Ferrick
1966
- Django as Major Jackson
- Ringo's Big Night as Bürgermeister Joseph Finley
- Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance as Davy
- Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun as Professor Theodore Karleston
- The Tough One as Villiarda
- Pas de panique as Lorenzaccio
- Trap for Seven Spies as Colonel Riteau
- La ciudad no es para mí as Dr. Agustín Valverde hijo
- Operation Apocalypse as Axel
1965
- Lone and Angry Man as Russell Murdock
- Erik the Viking as Olaf
- Assault on Fort Texan as Colonel George Bonnet
1964
- I due toreri as L'ispettore N.B.
- Las hijas del Zorro
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
- Reckless as Mario
- Dawn of America as Gastón
- La Leona de Castilla as Tovar
1950
- Agustina of Aragon as Luis Montana
- De mujer a mujer as Luis
1949
- El sótano as Juan Bell
- An Ordinary Woman as Ricardo
- Noche de Reyes
- La duquesa de Benamejí as Carlos, Marquis of Miraflores
- Loyola, the Soldier Saint
1948
- Mare nostrum as Capitán
- Noche de reyes
- Locura de amor as Marqués de Villena
1947
- Dulcinea as Ginés de la Hera
- Don Quixote as Don Fernando
- Love Charm as Franklin Perry
- Heroes del 95 as Enrique de Mendoza
- La dama del armiño as Don Luis Tristán