Alfonso Mejía
Acting
Biography
Alfonso Mejía Silva (16 November 1934 - 29 December 2021) was a Mexican actor. He is remembered for having played the role of Pedro, the main character in the film Los Olvidados (1950), considered a memory of the world by UNESCO and for which he won the Best Child Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951.
Born: November 16, 1934
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Known For
The Young and the Damned
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
The Martyr of Calvary
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
Por mis pistolas
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Quinceañera
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
Rubí
Rubi steals the fiancé from her millionaire friend Maribel, leaves her city and gets married in New York.
Detectives o ladrones..?
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.
La bienamada
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
Los novios de mis hijas
Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards.
Tarahumara (Further and farther)
An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.
Rio Hondo
A gang of bandits attacks the population of Río Hondo, shooting left and right; a man decides to act.
Filmography
as Dr. Cuevas
as Pablo Sanchez
as Miguel
as Roniali
as Lencho
as Pancho
as Eduardo Molina
as Marcos
as Pedro