 The Mexican man who takes the searchers to meet Chief Scar is called  Emilio Gabriel Fernandez y Figueroa. The name of this character,  played by Antonio Moreno (I) (qv), is a combination of the names  of Mexican actor and director Emilio Fernandez (qv) and his  cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa (I) (qv), both of whom were  friends of director John Ford (I) (qv).