Emilio Fernández
Emilio Fernández ( born March 26, 1904 in Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila; † August 6, 1986 in Mexico City) was a Mexican actor and film director.
Life
Fernández participated in the de la Huerta rebellion (1923 /24), was arrested after the break, managed to escape and followed the leader of the rebellion to Los Angeles. He was an extra in Hollywood. Upon his return to Mexico he began acting and writing screenplays. His first directorial effort was 1941 's La Isla de la pasión. His film Maria Candelaria 1946 was honored at the Film Festival of Cannes. His theme, the plight of the Indian population, had played in the Mexican film until then hardly matters. His film Un día de vida (1950 ), which plays at the time of the Mexican Revolution, came under the title Jedan dan života in theaters in Yugoslavia and became a box office hit while he was little attention in Mexico itself. From the 1950s Fernández put his artistic ambitions and the social claim of his earlier films to a large extent and turned melodramas and action- stressed consumer goods.
As an actor, Fernández was mainly through his much acclaimed role of " General Mapache " in Sam Peckinpah's Western epic The Wild Bunch to a wider audience.