Mexican character actor who achieved his greatest success in U.S. films. He was born in Mexico city, living in numerous places throughout the country. 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 Il tesoro della 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.

Birth Name: Benito Alfonso Bedoya y Díaz de Guzmán

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Birth Details: April 16, 1904 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico

Date of Birth: 1904-04-16

Place of Birth: Mexico, D.F., Mexico

Spouses: Gertrude Elizabeth Lasky Karas (8 March 1950 - ?)