Actor: Alfonso Mejía

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Birthday: 1934-11-16
Born in: Mexico City, Mexico
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.

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The Young and the Damned

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.
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The Young and the Damned

1950

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Por mis pistolas

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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Por mis pistolas

1968

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The Martyr of Calvary

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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The Martyr of Calvary

1952

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Tarahumara (Further and farther)

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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Tarahumara (Further and farther)

1965

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