FILM DIRECTOR

Emilio Fernández

1904 - 1986

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Emilio "El Indio" Fernández Romo (Spanish: [eˈmiljo feɾˈnandes ˈromo]; 26 March 1904 – 6 August 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 María Candelaria (1944), which won the Palme d'Or award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. As an actor, he worked in numerous film productions in Mexico and in Hollywood. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emilio Fernández is the 355th most popular film director (up from 366th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 85th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Mexican Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Emilio Fernández ranks 355 out of 2,041Before him are Kira Muratova, Ermanno Olmi, Víctor Erice, Dušan Makavejev, Jean Rouch, and George Albert Smith. After him are Fernando Meirelles, Makoto Shinkai, Edward Yang, Alexander Sokurov, Héctor Babenco, and Eldar Ryazanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Emilio Fernández ranks 85Before him are Ralph Bellamy, Lyudmila Rudenko, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, José Antonio Aguirre, Edmund Veesenmayer, and Nikolai Kuznetsov. After him are Greer Garson, Hans Hartung, Shunryū Suzuki, Walther Hewel, Oskar R. Lange, and Anna Mahler. Among people deceased in 1986, Emilio Fernández ranks 74Before him are Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Altiero Spinelli, Gia Carangi, Lyudmila Rudenko, Sterling Hayden, and Leif Erickson. After him are Yaroslav Stetsko, J. Allen Hynek, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Jorge Alessandri, Ellison Onizuka, and André Leroi-Gourhan.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Emilio Fernández ranks 77 out of 729Before him are Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1911), Itzcoatl (1380), Vicente Fernández (1940), Lila Downs (1968), Felipe Calderón (1962), and Marcial Maciel (1920). After him are Ernesto Zedillo (1951), Nezahualcoyotl (1402), Adolfo López Mateos (1909), Enrique Peña Nieto (1966), Thalía (1971), and Verónica Castro (1952).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Mexico

Among film directors born in Mexico, Emilio Fernández ranks 4Before him are Guillermo del Toro (1964), Alfonso Cuarón (1961), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (1963). After him are Arturo Ripstein (1943), Mario Van Peebles (1957), Guillermo Navarro (1955), Jorge Fons (1939), Rodrigo Prieto (1965), Carlos Reygadas (1971), and Michel Franco (1979).