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
- Fortunes of Captain Blood as Carmilio, Prison Overseer
- The Black Rose as Lu Chung
1949
- Border Incident as Cuchillo
- Streets of Laredo as Charley Calico
- The Bewitched House as Vendedor de palomas
1948
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Gold Hat
- Angel on the Amazon as Paulo
- El último chinaco
- Angel in Exile as Ysidro Álvarez
1947
- El tigre de Jalisco
- The Pearl
- Si me han de matar mañana
- Gran Casino as El Rayado
- Albur de amor as (as Alfonso 'Indio' Bedoya)
1946
- It’s Not Enough to Be a Charro
- La hija del payaso as Venadito
1945
- Hasta que perdió Jalisco
- Me he de comer esa tuna
- Canaima as Cholo Parima (Pantoja)
- The Abandoned as Gertrudis López, asistente
- Rosalinda
1944
- Me ha besado un hombre as Nacho
- The Headless Woman as Preso (uncredited)
- Mis hijos! as Borracho cantina (uncredited)
1943
- El rebelde (Romance de Antaño) as Bandido (uncredited)
- Doña Bárbara as Peasant
- María Eugenia as Pedro
- Wild Flower as Teniente de Rogelio
1942
- The Three Musketeers as Gorila en cabaret
- Virgen de medianoche as Esbirro (sin créditos)
- I'm a Real Mexican as Tomás
- La abuelita
1941
- The Unknown Policeman as Greñas (uncredited)
- El rápido de las 9.15 as Tripulación del tren (uncredited)
- Rancho Alegre
1940
- The Hawk as Pistoler
- Los olvidados de Dios as El Tejón
- The Underdogs as El manteca (as Alfonso Bedolla)
- El charro Negro as Police Commander