Alphonso DeNoble was a morbidly obese actor who only appeared in three
low-budget horror pictures during his regrettably fleeting career.
DeNoble's regular job was working as a bouncer at a Paterson, New
Jersey gay bar. Writer/director Alfred Sole convinced him to play the
strikingly lewd, sleazy, and grotesque pedophile landlord Mr. Alphonso
in the excellent "Alice, Sweet Alice." Alphonso went on to appear in two movies
for director Joel M. Reed: he portrayed a white slave dealer in the
notorious splatter sickie "Bloodsucking Freaks" and a camera store
proprietor in the cruddy "Night of the Zombies."
To earn extra money, Alphonso would often dress up as a priest and hang
around cemeteries. Elderly widows would ask "Father Alphonso" for a
blessing and offer him a donation for the church in return.
Regarding his death, director Joel M. Reed said that Alphonso shot himself after an incident of him getting stuck in a turnstile due to his weight appeared in the papers.