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
- Border River as Captain Vargas
- Ricochet Romance as Alfredo Gonzáles
- The Black Pirates as Garza
1953
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Degas
- Sombrero as Don Inocente
1952
- Por ellas aunque mal paguen as Don Lupe
- California Conquest as José Martínez
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
- Border Incident as Cuchillo
- Streets of Laredo as Charley Calico
- The Bewitched House
1948
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Gold Hat
- Angel on the Amazon as Paulo
- Angel in Exile as Ysidro Álvarez
- El último chinaco
1947
- The Pearl
- Gran Casino as El Rayado
- Albur de amor as (as Alfonso 'Indio' Bedoya)
- Si me han de matar mañana
- El tigre de Jalisco
1946
1945
- Hasta que perdió Jalisco
- The Abandoned as Gertrudis López, asistente
- Me he de comer esa tuna
- Canaima as Cholo Parima (Pantoja)
- Rosalinda
1944
- The Headless Woman
- Mis hijos! as Borracho cantina (uncredited)
- Me ha besado un hombre as Nacho
1943
- Wild Flower as Teniente de Rogelio
- Doña Bárbara as Peasant
- El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) as Bandido (uncredited)
1942
- The Three Musketeers as Gorila en cabaret
- La abuelita
- I'm a Real Mexican as Tomás
1941
- The Unknown Policeman as Greñas (uncredited)
- Rancho Alegre
1940
- The Underdogs as El manteca (as Alfonso Bedolla)
- El charro Negro as Police Commander
- The Hawk as Pistoler
- Los olvidados de Dios as El Tejón