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Abel Fernandez

Abel Fernandez
  • Name: Abel Fernandez
  • Birthday: 1930-07-14
  • Place of birth: East Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Popularity: 0.2758
Biography: Tall, handsome, cool, and intimidating, Native Latino American paratrooper, professional boxer, and character actor. Was of Yaqui Native Mexican descent, and possibly more tribes. Was from East Los Angeles, California. Fernandez was born in Los Angeles, California, on July 14, 1930. His mother was a Yaqui Native Mexican woman, and his father was a Native Mexican man. He was the youngest of a large family and lost his mother at birth. He attended Belmont High School in Los Angeles, and at the age of 16, enlisted in the United States Army and became a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division. While there he won the title, Middleweight Boxing Champ of the Asiatic Forces. In 1950, as an... Read More

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Title Release date
Buster's Bedroom 1991-05-09
Quicksilver   as  Guyamo 1986-02-14
Topaz   as  Cuban Guerrilla Fighter (uncredited) 1969-12-17
Madigan   as  Detective Rodriguez 1968-03-29
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round   as  Aztec Airlines Attendant (uncredited) 1966-10-12
Apache Uprising   as  Young Apache Chief 1965-12-29
Rio Conchos   as  Mexican at Corral (uncredited) 1964-10-28
Alcatraz Express   as  William Youngfellow (archive footage) 1961-01-05
Pork Chop Hill   as  Kindley 1959-05-29
The Scarface Mob 1959-04-19
Decision at Sundown   as  Pete (uncredited) 1957-11-10
The Tijuana Story 1957-10-01
The Last Wagon 1956-09-21
The Harder They Fall   as  Chief Firebird (uncredited) 1956-05-08
Fort Yuma   as  Mangas 1955-10-04
Devil Goddess   as  Teinusi (as Abel M. Fernandez) 1955-10-01
Many Rivers to Cross   as  Slangoh 1955-02-04
Rose Marie   as  Indian warrior 1954-03-03