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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-11-16

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Alfonso Mejía

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.

Known for

The Young and the Damned

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.

Padre nuestro

Padre nuestro

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Mañana serán hombres

Mañana serán hombres

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...

Jóvenes y bellas

Jóvenes y bellas

Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.

Rubí

Rubí

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.

Chicas casaderas

Chicas casaderas

Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.

Por mis pistolas

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.

Tarahumara (Further and farther)

Tarahumara (Further and farther)

A worker of the Mexican Indigenist Institute tries to help the Tarahumara Indians to protect and keep their lands, but he must face corrupt landowners and politicians.

El hombre de la ametralladora

El hombre de la ametralladora

A villain hires a hired assassin, "The Machine Gun Man" for the kidnapping of two rich girls.

The Martyr of Calvary

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.

Los novios de mis hijas

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.

Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)

Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)

An American priest is hired as coach at a Mexican university; he trains his students in the ways of American football and moral rectitude. You ain't gonna sire no babies out of wedlock on Father Lambert's watch, no siree!

Serenata en noche de luna

Serenata en noche de luna

La edad de la tentación

La edad de la tentación

By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined

Rio Hondo

Rio Hondo

A gang of bandits attacks the population of Río Hondo, shooting left and right; a man decides to act.