Alfonso Mejía

Acting

Alfonso Mejía

Born 1934-11-16 · 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.

Acting credits

The Young and the Damned poster
8.1

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

1950

Rubí poster
7.1

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

1970

Padre nuestro poster
6.5

Pops is dismissed from his banking job for embezzlement, and his family have to adjust to a more modest lifestyle.

Padre nuestro

1953

Jóvenes y bellas poster
6.0

Five city boys and five country boys compete for the attentions of five city girls.

Jóvenes y bellas

1962

Por mis pistolas poster
7.7

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

1968

No artwork available
6.0

Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.

Chicas casaderas

1961

Detectives o ladrones..? poster
6.8

Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.

Detectives o ladrones..?

1967

The Martyr of Calvary poster
8.1

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

1952

El túnel 6 poster
6.3

Engineering crew excavating a tunnel through a mountain, are trapped by a landslide.

El túnel 6

1955

Tarahumara (Further and farther) poster
6.0

A worker of the Mexican Indigenist Institute tries to help the Tarahumara Indians to protect and keep their lands, but he must face corrupt landowners and politicians.

Tarahumara (Further and farther)

1965

Mañana serán hombres poster
5.8

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

1961

Juventud sin Dios (La vida del padre Lambert) poster
6.2

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)

1962

El hombre de la ametralladora poster
5.8

A villain hires a hired assassin, "The Machine Gun Man" for the kidnapping of two rich girls.

El hombre de la ametralladora

1961

The Young Animals poster
4.0

A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.

The Young Animals

1970

Vacaciones en Acapulco poster
5.8

A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.

Vacaciones en Acapulco

1961

La bienamada poster
6.2

Civic-minded elementary-school teacher marries and sets up home with wife and her little brother. The-e-n...

La bienamada

1951

Quinceañera poster
7.2

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

1960

Los novios de mis hijas poster
6.6

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

1964

No artwork available
5.8

Undefeated boxing champion for 15 years faces retirement. One final bout...

El boxeador

1958

No artwork available
6.4

Three priests resort to desperate long-shots (like quiz-shows) to raise money for their parish.

Los tres mosqueteros de Dios

1967

Contra viento y marea poster
6.0

Two spoiled rich kids learn to value their father's working-class heritage.

Contra viento y marea

1962

Rio Hondo poster
5.9

A gang of bandits attacks the population of Río Hondo, shooting left and right; a man decides to act.

Rio Hondo

1965

Juventud desenfrenada poster
6.0

Teenagers with neglectful parents run amok; some get killed, some get arrested, some get rehabilitated.

Juventud desenfrenada

1956

La edad de la tentación poster
4.8

By the negligence of parents who not assume their responsibility in sex education, many lives are ruined

La edad de la tentación

1959