Background
Emilio Fernández was born on 26 March 1904 in El Seco, Mexico. “El Indio,” as he was named (because of an Indian mother).
Emilio Fernández was born on 26 March 1904 in El Seco, Mexico. “El Indio,” as he was named (because of an Indian mother).
He specialized in romantic melodramas, vividly photographed by Gabriel Figueroa and featuring Maria Félix (Río Escondido, Enamorada), Dolores del Rio (Flor Sylvestre, María Candelaria. Bugambilia), and his wife, Columba Domínguez.
In later years, he turned to acting, and he is superb as Mapache, struggling to cling on to a rampant machine gun (and all our worst notions of Mexico) in The Wild Bunch (69, Sam Peckinpah), and as Paco in Pat Garrett and Bilhi the Kid (73, Peckinpah).