Alfonso Mejía

Alfonso Mejía

Birth : 1934-11-16, Mexico City, Mexico

Death : 2021-12-29

History

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.

Profile

Alfonso Mejía

Movies

Rubí
Dr. Cuevas
Rubi steals the fiancé from her millionaire friend Maribel, leaves her city and gets married in New York.
The Young Animals
A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
Por mis pistolas
Pablo Sanchez
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.
Detectives o ladrones..?
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.
Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Ray
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
Serenata en noche de luna
Rio Hondo
Miguel
Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Roniali
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.
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.
Los falsos héroes
Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
Contra viento y marea
Two spoiled rich kids learn to value their father's working-class heritage.
Jóvenes y bellas
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
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!
El hombre de la ametralladora
Paco
Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
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...
Vacaciones en Acapulco
Lencho
A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
Chicas casaderas
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
Quinceañera
Pancho
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.
La edad de la tentación
By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined
El boxeador
Undefeated boxing champion for 15 years faces retirement. One final bout...
Juventud desenfrenada
Teenagers with neglectful parents run amok; some get killed, some get arrested, some get rehabilitated.
Padre nuestro
Eduardo Molina
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
The Martyr of Calvary
Marcos
The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
La bienamada
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
The Young and the Damned
Pedro
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.