Jaime Fernández

Acting

Jaime Fernández

Born 1927-12-06 · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Nicolás Jaime Fernández Reyes (December 6, 1933), better known simply as Jaime Fernández, was a Mexican actor and union leader. Over his career, he won 3 Silver Ariel awards — the Mexican equivalent of the Oscar — including one for what is arguably his best-known role, playing Friday, the protagonist's associate in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe. He appeared in over 200 films and served as the general secretary of the National Association of Actors (ANDA) for 11 years.

Acting credits

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

The Brute poster
7.0

A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

The Brute

1953

Vuelta al paraíso poster
6.0

All men who arrive on a small island fall in love with the daughters of an old fisherman who live there.

Vuelta al paraíso

1960

Zonga, el ángel diabólico poster
5.4

A medical researcher arrives at a cursed island and falls in love with an indigenous priestess.

Zonga, el ángel diabólico

1957

Guns for San Sebastian poster
7.0

Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted, with its cowardly residents hiding in the hills from Indians, who regularly attack the village and steal all their supplies. When Father John is murdered, the villagers mistakenly think the outlaw is the priest. Alastray at first tells them he is not a priest, but they don't believe it, and an apparent miracle seems to prove they are correct. Eventually, he assists them in regaining their confidence and defending themselves.

Guns for San Sebastian

1967

El corrido de María Pistolas poster
6.4

Sequel to Maria Pistolas. Comic-tomgirl member of Villa's army has boy trouble.

El corrido de María Pistolas

1964

Una pasión me domina poster
6.0

Unscrupulous landowner and his family are trying to deny water rights to the townsfolk. Particular beef with the guy that runs the mill. Ultimately the Revolution rolls through town and helps put everything right.

Una pasión me domina

1961

Lauro Puñales poster
5.0

One of Zapata's field marshals runs afoul of dictator Huerta's stooges in his home town.

Lauro Puñales

1969

Frontera norte poster
6.0

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

Frontera norte

1953

Robinson Crusoe poster
6.3

The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.

Robinson Crusoe

1954

The Proud and the Beautiful poster
6.7

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

The Proud and the Beautiful

1953

A Bullet for the General poster
6.6

El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.

A Bullet for the General

1967

Oro rojo poster
5.0

He swears to avenge his brother's death and will not rest until he fulfills his oath, even if it costs him his own life.

Oro rojo

2005

The Headless Rider poster
5.2

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").

The Headless Rider

1957

El norteño poster
6.7

Lawman on horseback cracks a case involving stolen gold bullion, the title to a mine, an evil twin and a plucky pre-adolescent boy. First in a series.

El norteño

1963

La Fuga de los Pérez poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

La Fuga de los Pérez

1995

Talpa poster
6.3

Produced on a grand scale, the Mexican Talpa relates the simple story of two brothers. The older of the siblings, Tanilo (Victor Manuel Mendoza) is a well-to-do family man; the other, Estaban (Jamie Fernandez), is one step above a wastrel. When Tanilo is felled by illness, Estaban is forced to take over the family's blacksmith business. He also inaugurates a romance with Tanilo's attractive young wife Juana (Lilia Prado). Punishment is eventually doled out in a manner which suggests that God Himself is exacting retribution on the adulterous couple. Originally released at 87 minutes, Talpa was pared down to 73 minutes for American consumption.

Talpa

1956

Muertes a medianoche poster
3.8

A nun is possessed by the devil, she sneaks out during the night using her beauty to make men fall in love with her and then brutally murder them. The nuns of the convent began to feel the presence of the devil and enlist the help of a detective to put an end to her possession.

Muertes a medianoche

2001

Soledad's Shawl poster
6.5

Alberto Robles, a young doctor, is faced with the decision to surrender to a life full of comforts and luxuries or to continue dedicating himself body and soul to serving those who need it most.

Soledad's Shawl

1952

Caballo prieto azabache poster
5.8

Standing before Pancho Villa's tomb, horse breeder Jesus harkens back to his youth, when he provided bed and board to a nondescript laborer named Doroteo Arango. In time, Arango would transform himself into gang leader Villa. When the Mexican Civil War erupts, a man named Fierro wants to execute Jesus for selling a horse to an anti-Villa buyer. But in repayment of Jesus's debt of kindness, Villa intercedes on his behalf.

Caballo prieto azabache

1968

Noches violentas poster
6.3

A police commander is framed for murder and he must find the real killer.

Noches violentas

2000

Lucio Vazquez poster
5.6

Blending historical fact and adventure fiction, Emiliano Zapata's (fictional) right-hand man takes leadership of his regiment after he's killed.

Lucio Vazquez

1968

Una cita de amor poster
6.0

The story of the doomed love between Soledad and Román. She is the daughter of a rich man that wants to marry her with Ernesto, nephew of his friend, the judge. Román owns a little ranch. A brawl in the town will unleash several deaths that will affect the already difficult relationship.

Una cita de amor

1958

The Revenge of the Shadow poster
5.4

A shadowy adversary emerges, forcing The Scarlet Fox into a dangerous game of wits, swords, and courage in this action-packed adventure.

The Revenge of the Shadow

1962

Behind the camera