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Alfonso Bedoya was a Mexican actor. He was born in 1904 at Vicam and died in 1957. He was a character actor who achieved his greatest success in American. films. He was born in a tiny village in Mexico and had a nomadic upbringing, living in numerous places throughout the country including, for a time, Mexico City. 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 the director John Huston offered him the role of Gold Hat in the 1948 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. 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 USA in the next nine years, but a drinking problem destroyed his health.
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John Huston is an actor. He was born in 1906.
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Heaven Knows, Mr Allison is a drama starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr in a story set during the Second World War about a US Marine and a Catholic nun who find themselves stranded together on a South Pacific Island occupied by the Japanese. Heaven Knows, Mr Allison was directed by John Huston in 1957.
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Annie is a musical starring Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking and Tim Curry in a story about a ten-year old orphan girl whose luck changes when she is adopted by a billionaire. Annie was directed by John Huston in 1982.
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Casino Royale is a James Bond spoof starring David Niven, Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress in a tale of agent 007 having retired but being called back into service following the assassination of 'M'. Casino Royale was directed in 1967 by John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish and Joe McGrath.
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Escape To Victory is a Second World War prisoner of war drama starring Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in a story about a football match organised between POWs and the German national team being used for an escape.
Escape To Victory was directed by John Huston in 1981.
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Heaven Knows, Mr Allison is a drama starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr in a story set during the Second World War about a US Marine and a Catholic nun who find themselves stranded together on a South Pacific Island occupied by the Japanese. Heaven Knows, Mr Allison was directed by John Huston in 1957.
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Key Largo is a gangster film starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G Robinson and Lauren Bacall in a story about an exiled and notorious gangster who terrorises the occupants of a Florida Hotel. Key Largo was directed by John Huston in 1948.
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Moulin Rouge is a biographical drama starring Jose Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Katherine Kath in the story of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec becoming a famous painter in Paris. Moulin Rouge was directed by John Huston in 1952.
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Myra Breckinridge is a comedy starring Mae West, John Huston and Raquel Welch in a story about a transsexual arriving in Tinseltown to collect an inheritance.
Myra Breckinridge was directed by Michael Sarne in 1970.
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