Fernando Fernández

Acting

Fernando Fernández

Born — Died

1916-11-08 — 1999-11-24

Place of birth

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Fernando Fernández "El Crooner de México" (1916–1999) was a Mexican actor and singer. He was born on November 9, 1916, in Monterrey, Mexico, and died in Mexico City, Mexico on November 24, 1999. Fernando was the son of Eloisa Reyes. He was brother of the famous film director Emilio Fernandez and actor Jaime Fernandez. Fernando Fernández was known as "the Crooner of Mexico."

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 7 titles

1950s · 30 titles

One Day of Life poster
6.2

A story about two men caught in the Mexican revolution: close friends before, but now on the opposite sides. One of them is military officer, while the other one expects capital punishment. The prisoner's mother comes to visit his son, unaware that his former best friend is now his enemy.

One Day of Life

1950

Dancing, salón de baile poster
5.5

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Dancing, salón de baile

1952

Doña Mariquita de mi corazón poster
6.3

Adolfo, the son of Dona Mariquita, is committed to Marisa to please his mother, but his real love is Paz.

Doña Mariquita de mi corazón

1953

Nadie muere dos veces poster
5.6

Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!

Nadie muere dos veces

1953

Arrabalera poster
5.4

Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.

Arrabalera

1951

Mi campeón poster
5.5

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

Mi campeón

1952

Si fuera una cualquiera poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Si fuera una cualquiera

1950

Street Love poster
6.0

El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.

Street Love

1950

Duelo en las montañas poster
6.0

1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.

Duelo en las montañas

1950

Love for Sale poster
6.3

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.

Love for Sale

1951

The Scarlet Fox poster
5.7

Luis Aguilar dons the mask of The Scarlet Fox, a daring masked hero who fights injustice across the rugged Mexican frontier in this thrilling introduction to the Scarlet Fox series.

The Scarlet Fox

1959

Tío de mi vida poster
5.7

Hard-partying college student wants his parents to think he's a serious and respectable young man, so Uncle Felipe pays all his bills and takes the blame for his misdeeds and wildnesses.

Tío de mi vida

1952

El casto Susano poster
6.0

Father and son are sober, responsible pillars of the community in their home-town... but they make frequent trips to the city.

El casto Susano

1954

Yo fui una callejera poster
5.8

Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.

Yo fui una callejera

1952

Una piedra en el zapato poster
5.8

Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.

Una piedra en el zapato

1956

Frontera norte poster
6.0

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

Frontera norte

1953

When Children Sin poster
6.0

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

When Children Sin

1952

The Scarlet Fox: Hanged Man’s Revenge poster
5.4

The Scarlet Fox confronts dark secrets and deadly enemies in a suspenseful adventure where danger lurks behind every shadow.

The Scarlet Fox: Hanged Man’s Revenge

1958

Death in Love poster
6.4

A man's life changes forever when death -- in the form of a female grim reaper -- moves in with him and his family, all so that he can buy a bit more time on earth. The only catch is, his family has no idea that their houseguest, a woman their father says is a foreign relative, is there to take their daddy away. Miroslava Stern, Fernando Fernandez and Jorge Reyes star in this inventive Spanish-language comedy.

Death in Love

1951

Magdalena poster
5.0

Family melodrama; one sister runs away with the other one's fiance. Twenty-odd years later, her daughter tries to make peace with the rest of the family. Plus accidental deaths and unwed motherhood and miraculous cures for blindness and near death experiences.

Magdalena

1954

Pasionaria poster
6.0

Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.

Pasionaria

1952

Ambitious poster
5.8

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.

Ambitious

1953

La última lucha poster
6.3

Slice-of-life melodrama: backstage at the wrestling arena.

La última lucha

1959

Los margaritos poster
6.3

Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.

Los margaritos

1956

Ferias de México poster
5.4

Itinerant card-shark with pre-teen daughter adopts an orphan boy; the children grow up and fall in love. Once they decide to get married, complications arise.

Ferias de México

1959

Encrucijada poster
6.0

Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.

Encrucijada

1956

White hair poster
6.0

Singer's-rise-to-stardom plot combined with long-lost-son plot.

White hair

1950

Cain y Abel poster
6.0

Bohemian husband and strait-laced wife get divorced; each takes custody of one son. Twenty years later...

Cain y Abel

1954

As negro poster
6.6

Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...

As negro

1954

Viajera poster
6.0

Music teacher gets all tangled up with a nightclub singer, after seeing his students ogling her advertisements.

Viajera

1952

1940s · 16 titles

The Fugitive poster
6.0

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.

The Fugitive

1947

Enamorada poster
7.8

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.

Enamorada

1946

Las cinco noches de Adán poster
5.8

Globe-hopping playboy bachelor is getting on in years, so he invites his five international children to come live with him.

Las cinco noches de Adán

1942

Hidden River poster
6.2

Called by the Mexican President himself, a rural teacher goes to work in a village that is dominated by a malevolent chieftain.

Hidden River

1948

Ahí vienen los Mendoza poster
6.3

Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.

Ahí vienen los Mendoza

1948

La feria de las flores poster
5.8

Ranchera melodrama/romance.

La feria de las flores

1943

Cita con la muerte poster
6.0

A physician launches his own investigation into a gang of opium traffickers, while a mother who lost her son to the drug vows revenge against those who led him into that world.

Cita con la muerte

1949

Escuadrón 201 poster
6.0

Fictional story about the Escuadron 201 de Caza (201st Mexican Fighter Squadron), which participated in military campaigns in the Phillipines during WWII. It focuses primarily on two brothers, one who has a promising future as a doctor, who volunteer for this unit after Mexico declares war on Germany after the sinking of Mexican merchants by U-boats. The story also follows another young man, the son of a Spanish immigrant baker. He volunteers to pay what he feels is an unpaid debt to their new adopted country.

Escuadrón 201

1945

Marina poster
5.6

Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.

Marina

1945

Passion Island poster
4.8

1909, a detachment of the Mexican army commanded by Captain Allende moves to Clipperton, also called the Island of the Passion, in the Pacific. After the outbreak of the revolution, the island becomes administered by the government of France, events that in principle go unnoticed by the islanders.

Passion Island

1942

La Vuelta Del Charro Negro poster
5.6

Lone Ranger style heroic adventure, number two in a four-movie series.

La Vuelta Del Charro Negro

1941

Un milagro de amor poster
5.3

Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back home, his fiancée the blind woman...

Un milagro de amor

1949

Mi lupe y mi caballo poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Mi lupe y mi caballo

1944

Dos almas en el mundo poster
6.0

A young couple meet in the reformatory and try to make a life together after they're released.

Dos almas en el mundo

1949

Callejera poster
5.3

Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.

Callejera

1949

Venus de fuego poster
6.0

Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.

Venus de fuego

1949

Series credits

Behind the camera

Ahí vienen los Mendoza poster
6.3

Two brothers "out on the ranch" fight over girls and stuff.

Ahí vienen los Mendoza

1948

El fistol del diablo II poster
NR

Drama, where José asks his stepfather for Amalia's hand and gives her a fistol given to him by a gypsy but Amalia loves Jorge, who is killed by the gypsy and they discover that people change their way of being when they have the fistol. The film consists of 3 segments 'La joya Maldita', 'Veneno juvenil' and 'Juego diabolico'.

El fistol del diablo II

1961

Storm in the Ring poster
5.5

Gangsters and crooked gamblers try to interfere with a wrestling championship.

Storm in the Ring

1963

Fatal Trap poster
6.2

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fisto del diablo." The others are El fistol del diablo, Juego diabólico and El ataúd infernal. All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

Fatal Trap

1961

El fistol del diablo III poster
NR

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

El fistol del diablo III

1961

El señor Tormenta poster
5.8

Wrestling melodrama: crooked gamblers, boy/girl stuff and a priest who needs money to run his orphanage.

El señor Tormenta

1963

Diabolical Game poster
6.2

Entry in a four part series based on the novel "El fisto del diablo" by Manuel Payno.

Diabolical Game

1961

El fistol del diablo poster
5.8

Luis, who has suffered several disappointments, invokes the Devil to help him, who gives him a fistol to improve his luck in love; however, the fistol will prove to be a double-edged sword that will also bring chaos. The film consists of 3 segments 'Duelo a muerte', 'Intriga en la noche' and 'Deuda pagada'.

El fistol del diablo

1961

El fistol del diablo IV poster
NR

Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol del diablo". All were directed by Fernando Fernández and star Roberto Cañedo.

El fistol del diablo IV

1962

La sombra blanca poster
5.7

Mexican feature film

La sombra blanca

1963

No artwork available
5.8

An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.

The Infernal Coffin

1962