Alfonso Bedoya

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Alfonso Bedoya (born April 16, 1904 in Mexico , † December 15, 1957 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican film actor.

Life

Alfonso Bedoya grew up in unsteady, nomadic circumstances in his childhood and was briefly at home in numerous places, including Mexico City. As a teenager, his family sent him to Houston , Texas , to attend a denominational school. However, he did not want to adapt to the circumstances, ran away and got by with odd jobs more poorly than well. Under pressure from the family, he was finally brought back to Mexico by his brother. There he got into the emerging Mexican film industry. After making his debut in the film Tudo un hombre in 1935 , Bedoya appeared in numerous Mexican films in the 1930s and 1940s. He gained some reputation as a character actor , preferably in adventure films . For his contribution to the 1945 film Canaima (also El Dios del mal ), he was nominated in 1946 for the most important Mexican film award, the silver Ariel .

In the 1947 film La Perla , based on a novella by John Steinbeck , Bedoya played a mafia godfather. In the same year, Hollywood director John Huston hired him for the adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre . In addition to Hollywood greats such as Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston , Bedoya played the Mexican bandit leader Goldhut (Gold Hat) there . In addition to the oversized sombrero and her broad grin, this film character became immortal in film history primarily through a dialogue with the main character Dobbs mimed by Bogart . The statement made by Bedoya aka Goldhut (with increasing irritation): “Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! ! I do not have to show you any stinking badges "(on German about:" service trademarks We have not received official stamps We do not need official stamps I need them at all to show stinking badge "!) The Stinking Badges GO indication was especially in North America to the catchphrase . The American Film Institute counted her in the "100 best film quotes" in 2005, and placed her 36th there.

After Sierra Madre , Bedoya starred in both American and Mexican films. His last role was in the monumental Western Far Country by director William Wyler as the Mexican ranch worker Ramón Gutierrez . When the film, published in 1958, was released, Alfonso Bedoya had already succumbed to his serious alcohol problems and died at the age of 53.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1935: Todo un hombre
  • 1941: El gendarme desconocido
  • 1943: Doña Bárbara
  • 1943: Flor silvestre
  • 1947: Mexican Romance (La perla)
  • 1947: Gran Casino
  • 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
  • 1949: Deadly Border (Border Incident)
  • 1949: The Death Riders of Laredo (Streets of Laredo)
  • 1950: The Black Rose (The Black Rose)
  • 1950: Love under Black Sails (Fortunes of Captain Blood)
  • 1951: Man in the Saddle
  • 1952: California on Fire (California Conquest)
  • 1953: The Stranger Wore a Gun
  • 1954: The Devil's Passage (Border River)
  • 1954: The Black Pirates
  • 1955: Avengers in Black (Ten Wanted Men)
  • 1958: The Big Country (The Big Country)

literature

  • Claudio Bertieri, Roberto Chiti: Art. Bedoya, Alfonso . In: Michele Lacalamita (ed.), Filmlexicon degli autori e delle opere , vol. 1: Autori A – C, Bianco e Nero, Rome 1958, col. 502f.

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personal data
SURNAME Bedoya, Alfonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican film actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1957
Place of death Mexico city