Emilio Fernández
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"El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo March 26 1904 Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila – August 6 1986) was a Mexican actor, screenwriter and director of the Cinema of Mexico.
His father, Fernando Garza, was a military and his mother was a Kickapoo Indian who inhabit the region of Sabinas, hence the "indio" nickname. He also was nicknamed "El Indio" because of his looksApparently his mother abandoned him as a teenager. El "indio" dropped school to serve as an officer in the Mexican revolution in the army of Victoriano Huerta. President of Mexico Álvaro Obregón sent Huerta into exile (in Los Angeles, California) and Fernández received a 20-year prison sentence but escaped prison and followed Huerta in Los Angeles. Huerta worked as a music teacher and Fernández as an extra in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s. After Lázaro Cárdenas became president and granted an amnesty to the Huertista rebels Fernández returned to Mexico. With his experience in Hollywood he joined the Mexican movie industry as a screenwriter and actor. "El Indio" obtained his first acting role in Corazón bandolero (1934) of Raphael J. Sevilla. His looks also landed him a starring role playing a native in Janitzio of Carlos Navarro.
He also wrote the script for La isla de la Pasión (Clipperton, 1941), a film he would also direct. His next two films as a director were successful not only in Mexico but the rest of Latin America, Flor silvestre (1943) and María Candelaria (1943). Both filmed with photographer (Gabriel Figueroa). He developed his own style which had such an effect in the industry that his portrayal of rural Mexico became a standard for the film industry and also became the image of Mexico in the world.
External links
- (es) [Biography] at the Cinema of Mexico site of the ITESM.
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