Birthday:
01-17-1934
Deathday:
05-10-1995 (61 years)
Birthplace:
Mexico City, Mexico
Biography
Alfredo Jesús Fernández Sáenz (nicknamed "El Pichi") (January 16, 1934, Mexico City – May 10, 1995, Mexico City) was a Mexican film and television actor.
Fernández was the only son of Alfredo Fernández and Elisa Sáenz Rojas. As a youth, he joined the Children's Fine Arts Theatre Company of Fine Arts under the direction of Clementina Otero. The nickname "El Pichi" was given to Fernández by producer Luis Manrique during the making of the film Callejera in 1949.
He received the Virginia Fábregas medal from National Association of Actors (ANDA) for his 25 year career and was nominated three times for an Ariel Award. His son is Alfredo Fernández ("El Pato").
He died on May 10, 1995, of esophageal cancer in Mexico City, aged 61. His remains were buried in Cozumel, Quintana Roo, his son's garden.
Fernández was the only son of Alfredo Fernández and Elisa Sáenz Rojas. As a youth, he joined the Children's Fine Arts Theatre Company of Fine Arts under the direction of Clementina Otero. The nickname "El Pichi" was given to Fernández by producer Luis Manrique during the making of the film Callejera in 1949.
He received the Virginia Fábregas medal from National Association of Actors (ANDA) for his 25 year career and was nominated three times for an Ariel Award. His son is Alfredo Fernández ("El Pato").
He died on May 10, 1995, of esophageal cancer in Mexico City, aged 61. His remains were buried in Cozumel, Quintana Roo, his son's garden.
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El Misterio de Huracán Ramírez
Act like Pichi
event1962 star_border 5
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Hurricane Ramirez is the new manager of the arena and champion of the ring. He must battle with The Prince, a ruthless criminal who will try to end with his life.
Black Is My Color
Act like Freddy
event1951 star_border 5.2
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Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")
El hijo de Huracán Ramírez
Act like Pichi
event1966 star_border 5.7
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A wrestler is arrested on suspicion of assault, but his son manages to capture the real culprits.
Caminos de Michoacan
event1979 star_border 5
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An innocent man (Gerardo Reyes) is accused of being involved in the disappearance of the daughter of a local landowner. Since I was dating the missing woman, I Becomes the prime suspect and must follow clues to find out what really happened to her. Since I was going out with the missing woman, becomes the prime suspect and must follow the clues to find out what really happened to her.
Street Love
Act like Fernando "el Pichi"
event1950 star_border 5.5
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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.
La Vida De Chucho El Roto
event1970 star_border 5
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Wealthy family opposes the romance between one of their young ladies and a working-class stiff.
Arrabalera
Act like Pichi
event1951 star_border 5
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Working-class girl marries rich playboy, gets implicated in his criminal activities.
Huracán Ramírez
Act like El Pichi
event1953 star_border 5.3
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Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...
El guía de las turistas
event1976 star_border 5.5
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A clownish 'tour-guide' takes a group of wealthy foreign vacation-gals to Acapulco.
Yo soy Chucho el Roto
event1970 star_border 5
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Bandit Chucho impersonates a variety of high-society figures to perform a series of playful swindles.
¡El que no corre... vuela!
Act like Capitan Tovar
event1982 star_border 7.7
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After mistakenly going to jail, Maria makes friends with a woman whose kids live in the streets and Maria gets the idea to help them.
Los amores de Chucho el Roto
event1970 star_border 4.7
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Gentleman bandit pulls off crafty robberries and frets over having or losing custody of his daughter
El inolvidable Chucho el Roto
event1971 star_border 6.3
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Adventure-story feats and family melodrama centered around an 1880s Robin Hood type figure. Fourth of four in a series.
El robo imposible
Act like Richard Bond
event1981 star_border 5
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Champion racehorse is kidnapped, ends up on a ranch in Durango, running dirt-road races at the county fair.
¡Paso a la juventud..!
event1958 star_border 4.7
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Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.
Love for Sale
event1951 star_border 5.6
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Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Las dos huerfanitas
event1950 star_border 5.5
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Two young girls escape from an orphanage to go look for their mommies.
When Children Sin
Act like El Pichi
event1952 star_border 5
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Bad girl makes lives miserable.
Callejera
event1949 star_border 4.5
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Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
Los tres Villalobos
event1955 star_border 5
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Three brothers cowboy-up to battle crime. Based on a radio serial.
La mujer que no tuvo infancia
event1957 star_border 5.5
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Borderline mentally-ill woman with neurotic compulsion to behave like a child and the psychiatrist who looooves her.
Pasionaria
event1952 star_border 5.3
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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.
El dengue del amor
event1965 star_border 5
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Dancing fanatic weasels his way into Perez Prado's entourage as a personal assistant.
Jesús, nuestro Señor
Act like Felipe
event1971 star_border 7
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Third movie in "Life of Christ" trilogy.
El cara parchada
event1980 star_border 5
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Evil guy gratifies his ambitions and desires at any cost, and he prospers nicely. Until he doesn't.
El fistol del diablo II
Act like Toño
event1961
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Part of a series of films based on portions of the Manuel Payno novel "El fistol 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.
Los pobres van al cielo
event1951 star_border 5
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When their parents die, brother and sister run away rather than go to an orphanage. Childless elderly couple adopts them, the neighborhood priest takes an interest in their sad story, and it goes on from there...
Pedro infante vive?
event1991 star_border 5
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Reporter/photographer covering a Pedro Infante commemorative event discover an uncanny look-alike lurking on the periphery.
Resigned for Reasons of Health
Act like Benítez
event1976 star_border 5.8
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A mid-level government bureaucrat is forced to think hard about his ideas on governmental corruption and his own integrity.
Santo vs. the Head Hunters
event1971 star_border 5.2
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Santo battles a mad scientist reviving the dead
San Miguel el alto
event1982 star_border 5.7
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A cocker and his driver were attacked by strangers, but leave unharmed. Jesús denounces the fact to his friend Mario, mayor of San Miguel el Alto.
Yo fui una callejera
event1952 star_border 5.5
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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.
Piernas cruzadas
Act like Receptionist
event1984 star_border 4.6
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Lucerito is a Spanish star who has come to Mexico, accompanied by her godfather and her agent, to find work. Rosario is from upper class society and has grown tired of the demands made upon her by her family. When they meet each other in a Mexican hotel, they discover that they could be each other's identical twin and decide to change places.
The Revenge of Hurricane Ramírez
Act like Pichi
event1969 star_border 4.8
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Landru, a French businessman, arrives Mexico with the idea of promoting their fighters, what nobody knows is that besides Landru promoter and fighter is a mad scientist who seeks to alter human genetics mixing it with the animal to make stronger and fiercer to their gladiators.
Capulina vs. the Mummies
Act like The Nephew
event1973 star_border 7.5
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A taxi driver winds up working as a butler for a scientist who is trying to revive mummies.
Diabolical Game
Act like Toño
event1961 star_border 5
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Entry in a four part series based on the novel "El fisto del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
Fatal Trap
Act like Toño
event1961 star_border 5
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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.
El caballo torero
event1973 star_border 5
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An adult baby is the groomer of an extra-special horse that some bad guys want to steal.
El gran pillo
Act like Freddy
event1960 star_border 5
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A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.
La venganza de los Villalobos
Act like Machito Villaobos
event1955 star_border 5
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Cowboy-hero series, number two of two: Townsfolk pledge all their jewels and valuables as security for a large loan to undertake a public works project... and then the swag is stolen.
You the Rich
Act like El Atarantado
event1948 star_border 7.5
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Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Pepe El Toro
Act like Atita
event1953 star_border 6.3
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The simple life and the values of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
La ciudad de los niños
event1957 star_border 6
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Priest feels a calling to open an orphanage.
La llamada de la muerte
Act like Manuel
event1960 star_border 5.4
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Bank-robber hiding out after a heist discovers that half the world knows where he is. Can he finesse some way out of his predicament?
La casa prohibida
event1981 star_border 4.5
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Three sex workers and three pimps, wacky complications.
¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
event1953 star_border 6.1
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Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties.
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
Act like Israel Boone
event1956 star_border 4.2
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Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.
Bataclán mexicano
event1956 star_border 5
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International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.
El sexo de los pobres
Act like Leandro Acamapixle (as Freddy Fernández 'El Pichi')
event1983 star_border 4.4
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Courtroom drama focused on the background of a man accused of rape.
La segunda mujer
event1953 star_border 5
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Couple with preteen children break up; Dad meets a new woman and they marry. The children grow up, and they're spoiled-y rich kids flirting with criminal lawlessness. Cue the violins.
Falsificadores y Asesinos
event1966 star_border 5
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When criminals kidnap her brother and force her to secretly exchange their counterfeit dollars for real ones, bank cashier Rosa looks to an unassuming office boy named Julio to help her pull it off. But Rosa's buttoned-up bank manager boyfriend can't help but notice that something suspicious is going on, so he resolves to get to the bottom of it. Armando Silvestre, Irma Dorantes and Carlos Montesco star in this classic crime drama.
Los pepenadores de aca
event1985 star_border 5
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Street-vendor believes he's wanted for a murder he didn't commit, so he hides among the "gleaners" at the city dump.
National Calvary
event1981 star_border 4.6
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Two middle-aged couples take a Murphy's Law vacation in Acapulco.
En carne propia
Act like José Pérez
event1961 star_border 5.6
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Rookie reporter and his publisher's daughter get caught up in a bizarre crime/traffic accident noir dilemma.
This was Pedro Infante
Act like Freddy Fernández
event1963 star_border 6
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The life of Pedro Infante, with scenes from his best films and the chaos that his tragic death caused in the public.
Twist: Locura de juventud
event1962 star_border 5.3
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The Legion Of Decent Decency is determined to shut down a nightclub where live rock and roll bands play and young people dance The Twist.
Venganza en el circo
Act like Freddy
event1954 star_border 5
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Criss-crossing love affairs and jealousies result in a murder attempt.
Secreto entre mujeres
event1949 star_border 5
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A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.
Una calle entre tú y yo
event1952 star_border 5.5
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When the national league coach selects Luis, a football star, to participate in a match against the US team, his father forces him to leave his girlfriend and his nemesis.
Los tequileros
event1990
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Prohibition-era: Mexican farmer and his two sons get caught up in a smuggling gang, importing contraband liquor to USA.
Los malvivientes
event1985 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
Crimen de ocasión
event1985 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
The Neighborhood
Act like Edmundo
event1981 star_border 4.2
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Mexican comedian Alfonso Zayas is just one of the many folks in town who are cheating on their spouses, imagining themselves quite clever and secretive, even while unbeknownst to them their spouses are cheating on them in turn! When one of the many women with whom Zayas has a child dies tragically, he attempts to integrate his daughter into one of his other families, calling her his goddaughter. But when his son falls in love with her, the many sexual escapades around town threaten to take a disturbing turn for the worse.
Who are our daughters with?
Act like Tony
event1956 star_border 5.8
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The story of a group of young people and the problems they face in modern society slowly begins to decline, due to family disintegration and loss of values.
Su primer amor
event1960 star_border 5
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Mexican feature film
María Isabel
Act like Gilberto
event1967 star_border 8
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A woman jumping from the poverty of the countryside to the splendor of wealth in the city without losing its simplicity
La sombra del otro
Act like Víctor Gómez
event1957 star_border 5
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Una divertida aventura de Viruta y Capulina en donde se verán enredados en un lío de boxeadores confundiendo tanto la situación que ni sus bellas amigas los podrán salvar de una gran golpiza.
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