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 (known in English 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. After a successful career in the 1950s and 1960s in Mexico, Mejia retired from the acting industry.
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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
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 My Wife and the Other One
1952 El mártir del Calvario
1951 La bienamada
1950 Los Olvidados