Alfonso Mejía

Alfonso Mejía Silva (16 November 1934 – 29 December 2021) was a Mexican actor. He was best known for his lead role as "Pedro" in Los Olvidados (known in English as The Young and the Damned), for which he won the Best Child Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. Director Luis Buñuel chose Mejía for the part. After a successful career in the 1950s and 1960s in Mexico, Mejia retired from the acting industry.

Mejía Silva died on 29 December 2021, at the age of 87.