Alfonso Mejía

Alfonso Amador Mejía Silva (born 16 December 1934 Mexico City, Mexico) is an actor best known for his lead role in Los Olvidados (known in the United States 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.[1] After a successful career in the 1950s and 1960s in Mexico, Mejia retired from the acting industry.

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 Furthe 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
  1. https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/65217/Los-Olvidados/awards Los Olvidados


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