Emilio Fernández
Born: 1903-03-26 in Sabinas, Coahuila, Mexico
Died: 1986-08-06
Known For: Directing
Biography
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo, March 26, 1904 – August 6, 1986) was a Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the most prolific film directors of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria, which won the Palme d'Or award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions of Mexico and also in Hollywood.
Filmography
2013
- Ottolenghi's Mediterranean Island Feast as Founder of Restaurante Sa Foradada
1987
1986
- The Kidnapping of Lola as Commander Prieto
- Lovers of the Lord of the Night as Don Venustiano
- Ahora mis pistolas hablan
1985
- Treasure of the Amazon as Tacho / Paco
1984
- Under the Volcano as Diosdado
- Observations Under the Volcano as Self
- Notes from Under the Volcano as Self
1983
- Lola the Truck Driver as Comandante Prieto
- Mercenarios de la Muerte
1982
- Una gallina muy ponedora
- Cinématon XIX as N°187
1980
1979
- México Norte ... (Director)
- Erótica as Hernández
1976
1975
- Breakout as J.V.
- Political Asylum as General Salino
1974
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as El Jefe
- La Choca ... (Writer)
1973
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Paco
1972
- Nest of Virgins as Anacleto Morones
- Kung Fu as Carlos
1971
- Columbo as Miguel
- The Enemy Blood as Juan
- La chamuscada (Tierra y libertad) as Margarito Herrero
1970
- The Phantom Gunslinger as Sheriff
1969
- The Wild Bunch as Gen. Mapache
- El crepúsculo de un dios as Himself
- Duelo en El Dorado
1968
- El caudillo
- The Smugglers as Cesare Brunelli
1967
- El Silencioso as Emilio Segura
- The War Wagon as Calita
- A Covenant with Death as Ignacio
- Un dorado de Pancho Villa as Aurelio Pérez
- Hard Breed to Kill as Ringo
1966
- The Appaloosa as Lazaro
- Return of the Seven as Francisco Lorca
- Los malvados
- La recta final as Don Lucio
- Duelo de pistoleros
1965
- The Reward as Sergeant Lopez
- La conquista de El Dorado
- Los hermanos Muerte
- Un callejón sin salida as Moran
1964
- The Night of the Iguana as Barkeeper (uncredited)
- El revólver sangriento as Félix Gómez
- Yo, el valiente
1963
- La Bandida as Epigmenio Gomez
- Wounded Dove as Danilo Zata
1962
- Little Town as Coronel
1961
- My Son, the Hero as Pascual Velasco
1960
- The Magnificent Seven ... (Assistant Director)
- El impostor ... (Director)
1959
- La Cucaracha as Coronel Antonio Zeta
1958
- Una cita de amor ... (Director)
1955
- Nosotros dos ... (Director)
- La Tierra del Fuego se apaga ... (Director)
1954
- Rebellion of the Hanged ... (Director)
- The Abduction ... (Director)
- La rosa blanca ... (Director)
1952
- Siempre tuya ... (Director)
- Acapulco ... (Director)
- El mar y tu ... (Director)
- Cuando levanta la niebla ... (Director)
1951
- La bienamada ... (Director)
- Victims of Sin ... (Director)
- Las Islas Marias ... (Director)
1950
- The Torch ... (Director)
- One Day of Life ... (Director)
- Duelo en las montañas ... (Director)
1949
- La malquerida ... (Director)
- Pueblerina ... (Director)
- Salon Mexico ... (Director)
1948
- Hidden River ... (Director)
- Maclovia ... (Director)
1947
- The Fugitive ... (Associate Producer)
- The Pearl ... (Director)
1946
- Enamorada ... (Director)
- Pepita Jimenez ... (Director)
1945
- The Abandoned ... (Director)
- Bugambilia ... (Director)
1944
- Maria Candelaria ... (Director)
1943
- Wild Flower as Rogelio Torres
- El fanfarrón: ¡Aquí llegó el valentón! as Aguilucho
1942
- Soy puro mexicano ... (Director)
- Passion Island
1941
- Rancho Alegre
- El Zorro de Jalisco as Ernesto
1940
- El charro Negro as Emilio Gómez
- The Underdogs as Pancracio
1938
1937
1936
- Celos as Sebastián
- Allá en el Rancho Grande as Bailarín
- Marihuana El Monstruo Verde
1935
- The Dead Speak ... (Adaptation)
- Janitzio as Zirahuén
1934
- Cruz Diablo as Toparca, bandolero
1933
- Flying Down to Rio as Dancer (uncredited)
1932
- The Western Code as Indian Joe
1931
- The Sunrise Trail as Pancho
1930
- The Land of Missing Men as Lopez