Alfonso Mejía

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.

Personal life and death

Mejía Silva died on 29 December 2021, at the age of 87.

Filmography

* 1970 ''Rubí''
* 1970 ''Las bestias jóvenes''
* 1969 ''La frontera de cristal'' (television series)
* 1969 ''Arriba las manos''
* 1968 ''Por mis pistolas''
* 1967 ''Frontera'' (TV series)
* 1967 ''Detectives o ladrones..? (Dos agentes innocentes)''
* 1967 ''Serenata en noche de luna''
* 1967 ''Los tres mosqueteros de Dios''
* 1965 ''Always Further On''
* 1965 ''Río Hondo Miguel''
* 1964 ''Los novios de mis hijas''
* 1962 ''Los falsos héroes''
* 1962 ''Contra viento y marea''
* 1962 ''The Young and Beautiful Ones''
* 1962 ''Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)''
* 1961 ''Mañana serán hombres''
* 1961 ''Machine Gun Man''
* 1961 ''Vacations in Acapulco''
* 1961 ''Chicas casaderas''
* 1960 ''Puños de Roca''
* 1960 ''Quinceañera Pancho''
* 1959 ''La edad de la tentación''
* 1958 ''The Boxer''
* 1956 ''Juventud desenfrenada''
* 1955 ''El túnel 6''
* 1953 ''Padre nuestro''
* 1952 ''Mi esposa y la otra''
* 1952 ''El mártir del Calvario''
* 1951 ''La bienamada''
* 1950 ''Los Olvidados''

References

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1934 births
2021 deaths
Male actors from Mexico City
Mexican male film actors

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