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Filmmaker · Mexico

Emilio Fernández

Died in 1986

Emilio Fernández was born in 1904 in Mineral del Hondo, near Sabinas, in Coahuila, to a father who was a colonel of the revolution and a mother of Kickapoo descent. Enlisted in 1923 in Adolfo de la Huerta's rebellion, he was arrested, escaped and made his way to the United States, where he was an extra and stand-in in Hollywood. Granted an amnesty, he returned to Mexico, acted, then directed forty-three films, often with the cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. Imprisoned for a few months for the death of a peasant, he died in Mexico City on 6 August 1986.

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