Alfonso Bedoya
Born: 1904-04-16 in Vicam, Sonora, Mexico
Died: 1957-12-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Alfonso Bedoya (April 16, 1904 – December 15, 1957) was a Mexican actor who frequently appeared in U.S. films. Bedoya was born in the small town of Vicam, Sonora, Mexico, of Yaqui Indian heritage. He had a nomadic childhood upbringing in Mexico, though he was educated in Houston, Texas. Bedoya found work as a character actor in the US and Mexican film industries in the 1930s to 1940s. During that time, he worked in over 175 Mexican films. His last movie, The Big Country, was released in 1958 after his death.
Filmography
2003
- Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' as Gold Hat (archive footage)
1958
- The Big Country as Ramón Guiteras
1955
- Ten Wanted Men as Hermando
1954
- The Black Pirates as Garza
- Border River as Captain Vargas
- Ricochet Romance as Alfredo Gonzáles
1953
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Degas
- Sombrero as Don Inocente
1952
- California Conquest as José Martínez
- Por ellas aunque mal paguen as Don Lupe
1951
- Man in the Saddle as Cultus Charley
- Stronghold as Ignacio 'Nacho' Lopez
- Furia roja as Ignacio 'El Nacho' López
1950
- The Black Rose as Lu Chung
- Fortunes of Captain Blood as Carmilio, Prison Overseer
1949
- Streets of Laredo as Charley Calico
- Border Incident as Cuchillo
- The Bewitched House
1948
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Gold Hat
- El último chinaco
- Angel in Exile as Ysidro Álvarez
- Angel on the Amazon as Paulo
1947
- The Pearl
- Gran Casino as El Rayado
- El tigre de Jalisco
- Si me han de matar mañana
- Albur de amor as (as Alfonso 'Indio' Bedoya)
1946
1945
- The Abandoned as Gertrudis López, asistente
- Hasta que perdió Jalisco
- Me he de comer esa tuna
- Canaima as Cholo Parima (Pantoja)
- Rosalinda
1944
- Me ha besado un hombre as Nacho
- Mis hijos! as Borracho cantina (uncredited)
- The Headless Woman
1943
- Wild Flower as Teniente de Rogelio
- El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) as Bandido (uncredited)
- Doña Bárbara as Peasant
- María Eugenia as Pedro
1942
- The Three Musketeers as Gorila en cabaret
- I'm a Real Mexican as Tomás
- La abuelita
1941
- The Unknown Policeman as Greñas (uncredited)
- Rancho Alegre
1940
- The Hawk as Pistoler
- The Underdogs as El manteca (as Alfonso Bedolla)
- El charro Negro as Police Commander
- Los olvidados de Dios as El Tejón