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'''Don Fernando''' (born April 12, 1948) is a [[Film director|director]] and [[pornographic actor|actor]] of [[pornographic film]]s. He started in the pornography business in 1977 and performed for 39 consecutive years; the longest tenure for any male pornographic film actor in the world, until his retirement in 2016 at which time, he started a successful wedding video/documentary business based in Honolulu. Because of his high libido and sexual endurance during his performances in adult film and video productions on 3 continents, he was known in the United States and Europe as "Mr. Reliable", and in Japan as "Superman of Video Sex". As a director, he specialized in performing with Asian females, and thus earned the moniker "Asianman". He won the Best Supporting Actor Award twice (1995{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}} and in 2005) during the [[Barcelona International Erotic Film Festival|Festival de Cine Erotica-Barcelona]]<ref>{{cite press release|title=LISTADO DE PELÍCULAS PREMIADAS |publisher=[[FICEB]] |date=October 2005 |url=http://www.ficeb.com/notas_prensa/Listado%20premiados.pdf |format=PDF, Spanish/English |access-date=October 7, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927034414/http://www.ficeb.com/notas_prensa/Listado%20premiados.pdf |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> Fernando was inducted into the [[XRCO Hall of Fame|X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame]] in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bwdl.net/XRCO-2/hall.htm |title=XRCO Hall of Fame |access-date=October 7, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007005528/http://www.bwdl.net/XRCO-2/hall.htm |archive-date=October 7, 2007 }}</ref> In 1998 he started directing and still continued acting. In 1999 he opened his personal website named Don Fernando's Asian X Club, featuring Asian and Eurasian females - many of which performed exclusively in front of his cameras. He was inducted into the ''[[AVN (magazine)|AVN]]'' [[AVN Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] during the 2004 [[AVN Awards]].<ref>{{cite news|title=AVN Awards Winners|work=[[AVN (magazine)|Adult Video News]]|url=http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=ED9E585D-1372-4B41-C4A4DA6742B42BDF&slid=114684|date=January 10, 2004|access-date=October 7, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111005451/http://www.avn.com/index.cfm?objectID=ED9E585D-1372-4B41-C4A4DA6742B42BDF&slid=114684|archive-date=November 11, 2007}}</ref>