Bedoya, Alfonso (1904-57)
?Actor. While filming The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on location??? in??? Mexico,?? John??? Huston?? ?met Alfonso Bedoya and cast him for what was to? prove a? key? role? in the? film.? As the smiling, deadly bandit who is Humphrey Bogart's nemesis, Bedoya exuded a bizarre menace? which?? precisely?? fitted?? the?? film's allegory? of self-destructive greed.? Bedoya stayed on in American movies, but not until The Big Country did he appear in another major Western. Before he met Huston, he had made around? 170 Mexican films, the titles impossible to trace.
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