Abel Gonzalez Fernandez (born July 14, 1930) is a Yaqui/Mexican actor who played in movies from 1953 to 2002. He is best known for his role as Federal Agent William "Bill" Youngfellow on the 1959-1963 ABC Television series The Untouchables

The Untouchables (1959 TV series)

The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...

. He was the only cast member from the original Untouchables lineup in the series' 1959 "Scarface Mob" pilot, other than Robert Stack himself, to be cast for the series.His character is based on that of William Jennings Gardner , Native American member of the real-life Untouchables Federal squad.

Biography

Abel was born in Los Angeles, California on July 14th, 1930. His mother was Yakaii Indian and his father, Mexican Indian. Abel was the youngest of a large family, and sadly, lost his mother at birth.He attended Belmont High School in Los Angeles, (now Cathedral High School),and , at the age of 16, enlisted in the United States Army, eventually becoming a paratrooper. While there, he won Middleweight Boxing Champ of Asiatic Forces. After his discharge, he became a professional boxer from 1950-1953.He studied acting and started in films in 1953.

Film and T.V.

Fernandez has also appeared in dozens of T.V.and film roles in series such as "Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone (TV series)

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", "Bonanza

Bonanza

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", "Time Tunnel", "Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....

", "Batman

Batman (TV series)

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", "Wagon Train

Wagon Train

Wagon Train is an American Western series that ran on NBC from 1957–62 and then on ABC from 1962–65...

", "The Virginian

The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...

", "Have Gun–Will Travel", and "Marcus Welby M.D.," as well as theatrical films such as "Fort Yuma

Fort Yuma

Fort Yuma is a fort in California that is located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861 and was abandoned May 16, 1883, and transferred to the Department of the Interior. The Fort Yuma Indian School and a...

", "Target Zero","Second Chance" (1953) with Robert Mitchum

Robert Mitchum

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, "Alaska Seas

Alaska Seas

Alaska Seas is a 1954 crime drama film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Robert Ryan and Brian Keith.-Plot:Matt Kelly is released from jail and skips town in his boat without paying outstanding storage fees. Back in his home town he is hired by his old friend Jim Kimmerly , the head of the...

" starring Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan

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 (also 1953),"Rose Marie

Rose Marie (films)

The 1924 Broadway musical Rose-Marie has been the basis of three MGM films of the same title. The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; however, a silent version was released in 1928 and another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness...

" with Fernando Lamas (1954) "The Last Wagon",(1956) "Pork Chop Hill

Pork Chop Hill

Pork Chop Hill , directed by Lewis Milestone, is a Korean War war film based upon the eponymous book by military historian S. L. A. Marshall, depicting the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division, and Chinese and Korean Communist forces at the...

" starring Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

 (1959) , "Madigan

Madigan

Madigan is a 1968 American thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda.The screenplay, originally titled Friday, Saturday, Sunday, was adapted by two writers who had been blacklisted in the 1950s, Abraham Polonsky and Howard Rodman , based on a novel titled The...

" with Richard Widmark

Richard Widmark

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 (1968) and many more. He also appeared in the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 TV series "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program which originally aired in 166 episodes on ABC from October 1954 until August 1959. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known...

" (with Lee Aaker

Lee Aaker

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) as an Apache warrior.

Today, Abel occasionally produces theatrical shows for disadvantaged children.

External links

• Abel Fernandez bio from the Native American Celebrities website

• Abel Fernandez at TV.com