Alfonso Bedoya

Biography

Alfonso Bedoya was a Mexican actor born in Vicam, Sonora, Mexico, of Yaqui Indian heritage, to Norberto Bedoya Perea and Ignacia Díaz de Guzmán. He had a nomadic childhood upbringing before emigrating to the US at 14 and working various jobs. Bedoya found success as a character actor in US and Mexican films in the 1930s-1940s, with notable roles including Ramón Guiteras in "The Big Country" (1958) and the iconic bandit leader in John Huston's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre".