Alfonso Bedoya

✎ About Alfonso Bedoya

Who is it?: Actor

Birth Place: Vicam, Sonora, Mexico, Mexico

Other names: Alfonso Bedolla Alfonso 'El Indio' Bedoya

Years active: 1935–1957

Alfonso Bedoya

Alfonso Bedoya was born on April 16, 1904 in Vicam, Sonora, Mexico, Mexico, is Actor. Mexican character actor who achieved his greatest success in U.S. films. He was born in a tiny village in Mexico of Yaqui heritage and he had a nomadic upbringing, living in numerous places throughout the country including, for a time, Mexico City. 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 The Treasure of the 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.
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As per our current Database, Alfonso Bedoya has been died on December 15, 1957 (aged 53)\nMexico City, Mexico.

🎂 Alfonso Bedoya - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

When Alfonso Bedoya die, Alfonso Bedoya was 53 years old.

Popular As	Alfonso Bedoya
Occupation	Actor
Age	53 years old
Zodiac Sign	Taurus
Born	April 16, 1904 ( Vicam, Sonora, Mexico, Mexico)
Birthday	April 16
Town/City	Vicam, Sonora, Mexico, Mexico
Nationality	Mexico

🌙 Zodiac

Alfonso Bedoya’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Alfonso Bedoya was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

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Biography/Timeline

1930

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.

1948

Bedoya is best remembered as "Gold Hat", the bandit leader who declares "I don't have to show you any stinking badges" in John Huston's 1948 adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This movie is number 30 on AFI's 100 Years…100 Movies and Bedoya's line is number 36 on AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes list. Bedoya's line has become widely imitated by entertainers.

1950

Bedoya married Gertrude Elizabeth Larky Karas on March 8, 1950, in Mexico City.

1957

Bedoya completed filming The Big Country in November, 1957, in California, and returned to Mexico City on December 8. Eight days later, after a night of partying with manicurist Maria Lucia Solana Martinez, Bedoya died of a heart attack in a Mexico City motel room.