Alfonso Mejía

Acting

Alfonso Mejía

Born November 16, 1934 · Mexico City, Mexico

Died December 29, 2021 · aged 87

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.

Known For

The Young and the DamnedThe Young and the Damned · 1950
The Young and the Damned
8.11950
MovieDramaCrime
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.
RubíRubí · 1970
Rubí
7.11970
MovieDramaRomance
This is the story of Rubí, a young, selfish and hypocritical woman who, through ambition and deception, ruins the lives of those around her and her own.
Padre nuestroPadre nuestro · 1953
Padre nuestro
6.51953
MovieFamilyDrama
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Jóvenes y bellasJóvenes y bellas · 1962
Jóvenes y bellas
6.01962
Movie
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
Por mis pistolasPor mis pistolas · 1968
Por mis pistolas
7.71968
MovieAdventureComedy
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.
The Martyr of CalvaryThe Martyr of Calvary · 1952
The Martyr of Calvary
8.11952
MovieHistoryDrama
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
Detectives o ladrones..?Detectives o ladrones..? · 1967
Detectives o ladrones..?
6.81967
Movie
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.
Mañana serán hombresMañana serán hombres · 1961
Mañana serán hombres
5.81961
Movie
Film-director assigned to making a teenaged-hoodlums crime drama, agonizes over the positive social message he wants his film to convey. Meanwhile, his young actors all have their own melodramas running...

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