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Alfonso Mejía

Actor | * 11/16/1934 († 87, 12/29/2021) | Mexico City (Mexico)
Alfonso Mejía Silva (16 November 1934 – 29 December 2021) was a Mexican actor. He was best known for his lead role as "Pedro" in Los Olvidados (known in English as The Young and the Damned), for which he won the Best Child Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. Director Luis Buñuel chose Mejía for the part. After a successful career in the 1950s and 1960s in Mexico, Mejia retired from the acting industry. ()

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.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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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 inter ...

Por mis pistolas

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1968 | 3.8/5 | 2h 3min
Adventure, Comedy, Western
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Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle. ...

Padre nuestro

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1953 | 2.8/5 | 1h 29min
Kids & Family, Drama
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A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent, criminal life in the festering slums of Mexico City, among them the young Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others. ...

The Young and the Damned

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1950 | 4.0/5 | 1h 25min
Crime, Drama
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Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide. ...

El túnel 6

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1955 | 2.5/5 | 1h 56min
 
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Movies with Alfonso Mejía as Actor(25)

1970 The Young Animals
as Dr. Cuevas1970 Rubí
as Pablo Sanchez1968 Por mis pistolas
1967 Serenata en noche de luna
as Ray1967 Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
1967 Detectives o ladrones..?
as Miguel1965 Rio Hondo
as Roniali1965 Tarahumara (Further and farther)
1964 Los novios de mis hijas
1962 Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
1962 Jóvenes y bellas
1962 Contra viento y marea
1962 Los falsos héroes
1961 Chicas casaderas
1961 Mañana serán hombres
as Paco1961 El hombre de la ametralladora
as Lencho1961 Vacaciones en Acapulco
as Pancho1960 Quinceañera
1959 La edad de la tentación
1958 El boxeador
1956 Juventud desenfrenada
as Eduardo Molina1953 Padre nuestro
as Marcos1952 The Martyr of Calvary
1951 La bienamada
as Pedro1950 The Young and the Damned

Full Name: Alfonso Mejía
Citizenship: Mexico
Born: Friday, 11/16 1934 (November) in Mexico City (Mexico)
Died: Wednesday, 12/29 2021 (December) in Mexico (aged: 87)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: Spanish (ES)
Other names for Alfonso Mejía (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Альфонсо Мехия"
"Alfonso Mejía Silva"
Alfonso Mejía frequently works together with these people:
Carlos Savage (6x, Crew)
Miguel Morayta (5x, Crew)
Ariadna Welter (4x, Actress)
Gustavo César Carrión (4x, Crew)
Fernando Luján (4x, Actor)
Jorge Fernández (4x, Crew)
José Baviera (3x, Actor)
Alma Delia Fuentes (3x, Actress)
José María Fernández Unsáin (3x, Crew)
Rafael Bertrand (3x, Actor)
Héctor Godoy (3x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:420954, Added: 09/22/2018, Last updated: 04/14/2024