Alfonso Mejía

Alfonso Mejía

Born: November 16, 1934
Died: December 29, 2021
in Mexico City, Mexico
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.

Movies for Alfonso Mejía...

Rubí
Title: Rubí
Character: Dr. Cuevas
Released: September 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Rubi steals the fiancé from her millionaire friend Maribel, leaves her city and gets married in New York.
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The Young Animals
Title: The Young Animals
Released: April 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
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Por mis pistolas
Title: Por mis pistolas
Character: Pablo Sanchez
Released: August 21, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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Detectives o ladrones..?
Title: Detectives o ladrones..?
Released: June 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.
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Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Title: Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Character: Ray
Released: March 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
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Serenata en noche de luna
Title: Serenata en noche de luna
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
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Rio Hondo
Title: Rio Hondo
Character: Miguel
Released: August 12, 1965
Type: Movie
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Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Title: Tarahumara (Further and farther)
Character: Roniali
Released: June 8, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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Los novios de mis hijas
Title: Los novios de mis hijas
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Los falsos héroes
Title: Los falsos héroes
Released: November 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Three spoiled rich kids live profligately and set a bad example for an ambitious middle-class friend.
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Contra viento y marea
Title: Contra viento y marea
Released: August 9, 1962
Type: Movie
Two spoiled rich kids learn to value their father's working-class heritage.
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Jóvenes y bellas
Title: Jóvenes y bellas
Released: May 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
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Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
Title: Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
Released: January 3, 1962
Type: Movie
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!
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El hombre de la ametralladora
Title: El hombre de la ametralladora
Character: Paco
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
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Mañana serán hombres
Title: Mañana serán hombres
Released: August 3, 1961
Type: 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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Vacaciones en Acapulco
Title: Vacaciones en Acapulco
Character: Lencho
Released: May 22, 1961
Type: Movie
A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
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Chicas casaderas
Title: Chicas casaderas
Released: February 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
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Quinceañera
Title: Quinceañera
Character: Pancho
Released: June 9, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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La edad de la tentación
Title: La edad de la tentación
Released: January 8, 1959
Type: Movie
By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined
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El boxeador
Title: El boxeador
Released: July 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Undefeated boxing champion for 15 years faces retirement. One final bout...
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Juventud desenfrenada
Title: Juventud desenfrenada
Released: December 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Teenagers with neglectful parents run amok; some get killed, some get arrested, some get rehabilitated.
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El túnel 6
Title: El túnel 6
Released: September 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
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Padre nuestro
Title: Padre nuestro
Character: Eduardo Molina
Released: October 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
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The Martyr of Calvary
Title: The Martyr of Calvary
Character: Marcos
Released: April 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
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La bienamada
Title: La bienamada
Released: September 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
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The Young and the Damned
Title: The Young and the Damned
Character: Pedro
Released: December 9, 1950
Type: Movie
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.