Alfonso Bedoya(1904-1957)
- Actor
Mexican character actor who achieved his greatest success in U.S.
films. He was born in Mexico city, living in numerous places throughout the country. He received a private education in Houston,
Texas as a teenager, but dropped out and roamed about doing an
assortment of jobs. His family, however, brought him back to Mexico
City, where he subsequently found work in the struggling Mexican film
industry. He appeared in many Mexican films before director John Huston
offered him the role of Gold Hat in Le Trésor de la Sierra Madre (1948). Bedoya stole the scenes in
which he appeared as the smiling cutthroat and delivered the famous
line about not needing any "stinking badges". He made a number of
popular films in the U.S. in the next nine years, but a drinking
problem destroyed his health. He died of a heart attack at the age of 53.
