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
''Los Olvidados'' (, Spanish: ''The Forgotten Ones''; known in the United States as ''The Young and the Damned'') is a 1950 Mexican teen crime film directed by Luis Buñuel. It was filmed at Tepeyac Studios and on location in Mexico City.
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'' (known in English as ''
The Young and the Damned''), for which he won the Best Child Actor award at the
Cannes Film Festival
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in 1951. Director
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians and directors to be one of the greatest and ...
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
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The film's sets were designed by the art director Roberto Silva. It was sho ...
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* 1961 ''Chicas casaderas''
* 1960 ''Puños de Roca''
* 1960 ''Quinceañera Pancho''
* 1959 ''La edad de la tentación''
* 1958 ''
The Boxer
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* 1956 ''Juventud desenfrenada''
* 1955 ''El túnel 6''
* 1953 ''Padre nuestro''
* 1952 ''
My Wife and the Other One
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* 1952 ''El mártir del Calvario''
* 1951 ''La bienamada''
* 1950 ''
Los Olvidados
''Los Olvidados'' (, Spanish: ''The Forgotten Ones''; known in the United States as ''The Young and the Damned'') is a 1950 Mexican teen crime film directed by Luis Buñuel. It was filmed at Tepeyac Studios and on location in Mexico City.
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''
References
External links
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1934 births
2021 deaths
Male actors from Mexico City
Mexican male film actors
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