Emerging from Sabinas, Coahuila, the son of a revolutionary general and a Kickapoo descendant, Emilio Fernández Romo entered the Mexican Military Academy before exile led him to assorted jobs in the United States, where work as a stonemason on studio sets opened a path to extra work and double-casting for Hollywood stars. Returning to Mexico in 1933, he debuted as a director with La isla de la pas…
