Alfonso Bedoya
Alfonso Bedoya ( born April 16, 1904 in Mexico, † December 15, 1957 in Mexico City) was a Mexican film actor.
Life
Alfonso Bedoya grew in his childhood in unsteady, nomadic conditions, each was briefly in many places home, including in Mexico City. As a teenager, he was sent by his family to study in a parochial school to Houston, Texas. However, it might be the ratios do not adapt, crack and struck with odd jobs more bad than good by. Under pressure from the family, he was finally brought his brother back to Mexico. There he came to the distinguished Mexican film industry. After he made his debut in the film Tudo un hombre 1935, Bedoya was seen in the 1930s and 1940s years in numerous Mexican films. He gained some reputation as a character actor, preferably in adventure films. For his contribution to the 1945 released movie Canaima (also El Dios del mal ) he was nominated in 1946 for the most important Mexican Film Award, the Silver Ariel.
In the published 1947 film La Perla, after a novel by John Steinbeck, Bedoya played a Mafia godfather. In the same year, the Hollywood director John Huston hired him for the adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Apart from Hollywood celebrities like Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston Bedoya played there the Mexican bandit leader Gold Hat (Gold Hat). This film character was immortalized in film history next to the oversized sombrero and its broad grin primarily through a dialogue with the mimed Bogart main character Dobbs. The investment made by Bedoya also known as Gold Hat statement ( with increasing anger ): " Badges? We is not got no badges! We do not need no badges! Off I do not have to show you any stinking badges " ( in German about :"! Dienstmarken We have not received any official stamps We do not need service marks I need them at all show no stinking badge " ) The Stinking Badges statement was especially in North America dictum. The American Film Institute in 2005, it was one of the "100 best movie quotes ", classified them there at No. 36.
After Sierra Madre Bedoya was seen both in the U.S. as well as in Mexican films. He had his last role in the Monumental Western Big Country by director William Wyler as a Mexican ranch hand Ramón Guiteras. With the appearance of the film published in 1958, Alfonso Bedoya, however, was already succumbed to its significant alcohol problems, and died the age of 53.