Alfonso Mejía
Acting
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
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
Chicas casaderas
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.
The Young and the Damned
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.
Por mis pistolas
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
The Martyr of Calvary
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.
Rubí
Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.
Jóvenes y bellas
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 novios de mis hijas
A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.
Vacaciones en Acapulco
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.
Tarahumara (Further and farther)
By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined
La edad de la tentación
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.
Quinceañera
Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...
La bienamada
Teenagers with neglectful parents run amok; some get killed, some get arrested, some get rehabilitated.
Juventud desenfrenada
Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.
Padre nuestro
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...
Mañana serán hombres
Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.
Los tres mosqueteros de Dios
Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.
El túnel 6
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!
Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert)
A villain hires a hired assassin, "The Machine Gun Man" for the kidnapping of two rich girls.
El hombre de la ametralladora
A gang of bandits attacks the population of Río Hondo, shooting left and right; a man decides to act.