Eduardo Fajardo
Acting
Born August 14, 1924, Meis, Galicia, Spain
Eduardo Martínez Fajardo (14 August 1924 – 4 July 2019) was a Spanish film actor born in Meis (Pontevedra), Spain. He appeared in 183 films, 75 plays and made 2,000 television appearances between 1947 and 2002. He was born in Meis, Pontevedra on 14 August 1924, and he raised in Haro and Santander, where he studied Bachillerato. He began his career as a voice actor from 1942 to 1946, and in 1947 he made his film debut in Héroes del 95, directed by Raúl Alfonso. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico, and when he came back to Spain he appeared in spaghetti westerns such as Gli eroi di Fort Worth (1965) by Martin Herbert, and Django (1966) by Sergio Corbucci. In 2002, he founded Teatro sin barreras in Almeria, in order to help people with disabilities. He started the Almeria Walk of Fame, where he received a star on 11 April 2012 due to his intervention in 7th Cavalry and Django. Fajardo was married four times. In Mexico he married twice, one of her with the actress Carmelita González, with whom he bore a daughter, Paloma del Rocío. His others children are José Antonio, Corazón, Lucero, Dusko, Alma and Eduardo. Fajardo died while vacationing with five of his seven children in Mexico on 4 July 2019 at the age of 94. He was honoured by the Diputación de Pontevedra and had been named hijo predilecto del Concello de Meis. In January 2019 he was honoured by the Almería Western Museo del Cine. Source: Article "Eduardo Fajardo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
- 1988The Brother from Space — General Bradley
- 1987Biting Life — Don Fernando
- 1987¡Esto es un atraco! — Ramón
- Tristeza de Amor — Fermín Rivera
- 1985Bangkok, City of the Dead — Flanagan
- 1985Café, coca y puro — Tío de Pablo
- L'Homme de Suez — Mehemet Ali
- 1984Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold — Man-Who-Knows
- 1983Exterminators of the Year 3000 — Senator
- 1983Hundra — Chieftain
- 1983Pájaros de ciudad
- 1982Death in the Vatican — Rettore
- 1982Lake of the Virgins — Sebastián
- 1982Life, Love and Death
- Los Gozos y las Sombras — Fray Eugenio
- 1981Black Jack — Director of Security
- Toda una vida — Arnulfo
- 1981Vultures Over the City — Bonardis
- 1980Nightmare City — Dr. Kramer
- 1980Tres mujeres de hoy — Rafael
- La Barraca — Barret
- 1979Magic Powder — Butler
- 1979The Shack — Barret
- 1979The Shark Hunter — Gómez
- 1978Beyond the End of the World — Profesor Antón del Valle
- 1978Venus de fuego — Padre de Alberto
- 1977El despertar de los sentidos — Juan
- 1977Las marginadas — Don Fernando
- 1977The Call of Sex — Sr. Montero
- Curro Jiménez — Don Rafael
- 1976Girl With The Coral Skin — Barrymore
- 1976Guapa, rica y... especial — Don Arístides
- 1976Lucecita
- Mañana Será Otro Día — Don Alfonso de la Riva
- 1976Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate — Baron / Duke of Sherwood
- 1975Ace of Hearts — Edward
- 1975Convoy Buddies — Monsieur Le Renard
- 1975Cross of the Devil — Enrique Carrillo
- 1975Doctor Justice
- 1975Evil Eye — Basev
- 1975The Adolescents — Ana's Father
- 1975The House of Exorcism — Francis Lehar (archive footage)
- 1975The Killer Must Kill Again — Inspector
- 1975The Knave
- 1975Valley of the Dancing Widows — Dynamite Dick
- 1974A Girl and an Older Man — médico
- 1974El último proceso en París — Mr. Dupont
- 1974El último viaje — Comisario Mendoza
- 1974Lisa and the Devil — Francis Lehar
- Sergeant Berry — Larry Sandor
- 1974Seven Jackals
- 1974The Four Musketeers — Officer
- 1974The Killer with a Thousand Eyes — Crime Boss Costa
- 1973Barcelona Kill — El Conde
- 1973It's Not Good for a Man to Be Alone — Don Alfonso
- 1973Ricco — Cyrano
- 1973Tequila! — Cogan
- 1973The Counsellor — Calogero Vezza
- 1973The Hyena — Captain Steven
- 1973The Lonely Woman — Lawyer
- 1973The Scarlet Letter
- 1973The Three Musketeers of the West — Horatio Maurice DeLuc
- 1973Yankee Dudler — Henry
- 1972Father Jackleg — Grant
- 1972Fuenteovejuna
- 1972Knife of Ice — Marcos
- 1972Murder Mansion — Mr. Tremont
- 1972Sonny and Jed — Don García Moreno
- 1972The Two Faces of Fear — Luisi
- 1972What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? — Pablo Carrasco, el herrero
- 1971At the End of the Rainbow — Redfield
- 1971Bad Man's River — General Duarte
- 1971Conquest — Virrey Lagasca
- 1971Delusions of Grandeur — Cortega
- 1971Don't Turn the Other Cheek — Gen. Huerta
- 1971El Bandido Malpelo — Juan Cisneros
- 1970Apocalypse Joe — Berg
- 1970Compañeros — Colonel
- 1970El mesón del gitano — Jaime
- 1970Neurosis
- 1970Sabata the Killer — Mangosta
- 1970Satan's Five Warnings — Leonardo
- 1970Shango — Major Droster
- 1970Transplant of a Brain — Clifton Reynolds
- 1970Your Sweet Body to Kill — Franz Adler
- 1970¿Quién soy yo? — General Varclano
- 1969Bootleggers
- 1969Cry Chicago — O'Connor
- 1969Cuatro noches de boda — Miguel
- 1969Eagles Over London — German officer
- 1969El taxi de los conflictos — Comisario Dieguez
- 1969Las nenas del mini-mini — Padre de Chalo
- 1969Murders in Chicago — Arthur
- 1969Satan's Profile — Staub
- 1969Sharon in Scarlet — Matthews
- 1969They Paid with Bullets: Chicago 1929 — Captain Harper
- 1969Viva Cangaceiro — Governor Branco
- 1968A Gun for One Hundred Graves — Chavel
- 1968A Stranger in Paso Bravo — Acombar
- 1968Death Knows No Time — Trevor
- 1968Go For Broke — Paco Nunez
- 1968Killer Adios — Sam Ringold
- 1968Los flamencos — Kuis
- 1968No le busques tres pies... — Juan
- 1968One by One — Sheriff Lyman
- 1968The Mercenary — Alfonso García
- 1967Adios, Hombre — Tilly
- 1967Argoman the Fantastic Superman — Chandra, Butler
- 1967Gentleman Killer — Colonel Fernando Ferreras
- 1967Last of the Badmen — Don Jaime Mendoza
- 1967Master Stroke — Mr. Ferrick
- 1967Mission Phantom — General Poniatowski
- 1966Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun — Professor Theodore Karleston
- 1966Django — Major Jackson
- 1966La ciudad no es para mí — Dr. Agustín Valverde hijo
- 1966Operation Apocalypse — Axel
- 1966Pas de panique — Lorenzaccio
- 1966Ringo's Big Night — Bürgermeister Joseph Finley
- 1966Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance — Davy
- 1966The Tough One — Villiarda
- 1966Trap for Seven Spies — Colonel Riteau
- 1965Assault on Fort Texan — Colonel George Bonnet
- 1965Erik the Viking — Olaf
- 1965Lone and Angry Man — Russell Murdock
- 1964I due toreri — L'ispettore N.B.
- 1964Las hijas del Zorro
- 1963Los Invisibles — Jewel Thief
- 1961The Important Man — El Español
- 1960Macario — Virrey
- 1960The Crying Woman — Don Nuño de Montes Claros
- 1958School for Buglars — Eduardo
- 1957La ciudad de los niños
- 1957Tizoc — Arturo
- 1956A Woman's Pride — Ramón Durán
- 1955La engañadora
- 1954Las últimas banderas — Jaime Pardo
- 1954The Intruder — Raúl Gómez de Fonseca
- 1953Airport — Espectador (uncredited)
- 1953El Curioso Impertinente — Boccaccio
- 1952Gloria Mairena — Paulino Céspedes
- 1952Near the city — Antonio
- 1951Dawn of America — Gastón
- 1951La Leona de Castilla — Tovar
- 1951Reckless — Mario
- 1950Agustina of Aragon — Luis Montana
- 1950De mujer a mujer — Luis
- 1949An Ordinary Woman — Ricardo
- 1949El sótano — Juan Bell
- 1949La duquesa de Benamejí — Carlos, Marquis of Miraflores
- 1949Loyola, the Soldier Saint
- 1948Locura de amor — Marqués de Villena
- 1948Mare nostrum — Capitán
- 1948Noche de reyes
- 1947Don Quixote — Don Fernando
- 1947Dulcinea — Ginés de la Hera
- 1947Heroes del 95 — Enrique de Mendoza
- 1947La dama del armiño — Don Luis Tristán
- 1947Love Charm — Franklin Perry
Appearances as themselves (1)
- 2000El bueno, la bomba y el malo — Self