Alfredo del Diestro
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Actor and film director, born in Valparaíso Chile, October 7, 1885, died in Mexico City in 1951. Son of Spanish merchant Juan del Diestro and Italian pianist Matilde Cavaletti, Alfredo del Diestro spent his adolescence in Havana with his parents. In 1900 he returned to Colombia with the theatrical company Juan del Diestro, formed by him and his younger brother Juan. The company remained in the country until 1903, when it resumed its transhumance through Central America and the Caribbean. In Havana he met the Mexican actress Emma Roldán, and married her. In 1920, when he was doing a season at the Municipal Theater of Cali, he met Francisco Antonio Posada, who proposed him to co-direct with the Spaniard Máximo Calvo the silent feature film María. Del Diestro did the art direction, directed the dialogues and the staging. He returned to Mexico in 1924, where he continued working in film. His most outstanding performance was in the feature film Allá en el rancho grande, made in 1936.
Known for
Credits
Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
as Don Ramón
Shadow of Pancho Villa (1933)
as Medrano
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio (1949)
Actor
The Underdogs (1940)
as El güero Margarito
El compadre Mendoza (1934)
as Rosalio Mendoza
Se la llevó el Remington (1948)
as Don Eusebio
El jefe máximo (1940)
Actor
Mi viuda alegre (1942)
Actor
La norteña de mis amores (1948)
Actor
Adam, Eve and the Devil (1945)
Actor
La dama atrevida (1931)
as Fleming
Juarez and Maximilian (1934)
Actor
El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)
as El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1935)
as Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda
La casa del ogro (1939)
as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
Law of the Harem (1931)
Actor
Las mujeres mandan (1937)
Actor
La paloma (1937)
as Mariscal Bazaine
Hombres del aire (1939)
Actor
Prisoner 13 (1933)
as Colonel Julián Carrasco
María (1922)
as Salomón
The Crying Woman (1933)
as Jefe de policía
El padre Morelos (1943)
Actor
Un milagro de amor (1949)
Actor
Noches de gloria (1938)
as Don Federico
Madre a la fuerza (1940)
as Gustavo Reynoso
La noche del pecado (1933)
Actor
Those Who Dance (1930)
as Benson
Tribu (1934)
Actor
Adios mi chaparrita (1941)
as Andrés