Fajardo, Eduardo

(Eduardo Fajardo Martínez)

(1918 or '24? - )

   Fajardo was born in Spain and received his law degree there in 1945, but never practiced this profession, instead choosing an acting career. He worked in the theater and films in his native land before coming to Mexico in 1953 under contract to Miguel Contreras Torres, who put him in his first Mexican picture, Tehuantepec (this film was also made in an English-language version, with Dan O'Herlihy in Fajardo's role). For the rest of the decade and into the '60s Fajardo spent a significant amount of time in Mexico, working in films and producing and directing stage plays. Fajardo was often cast as unsympathetic characters, from outright villains to snobbish and selfish husbands, etc.

   By the mid-'60s, however, he was once again mostly working in Spain, and he continued to appear in films there through the 1980s.