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
El jefe máximo (1940)
Actor
Shadow of Pancho Villa (1933)
as Medrano
María (1922)
as Salomón
El compadre Mendoza (1934)
as Rosalio Mendoza
La dama atrevida (1931)
as Fleming
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio (1949)
Actor
Adios mi chaparrita (1941)
as Andrés
Prisoner 13 (1933)
as Colonel Julián Carrasco
Mi viuda alegre (1942)
Actor
Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
as Don Ramón
Hombres del aire (1939)
Actor
Nobleza ranchera (1938)
Actor
Noches de gloria (1938)
as Don Federico
The Underdogs (1940)
as El güero Margarito
Juarez and Maximilian (1934)
Actor
La casa del ogro (1939)
as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
Madre a la fuerza (1940)
as Gustavo Reynoso
Se la llevó el Remington (1948)
as Don Eusebio
La norteña de mis amores (1948)
Actor
La noche del pecado (1933)
Actor
The Crying Woman (1933)
as Jefe de policía
Un milagro de amor (1949)
Actor
Law of the Harem (1931)
Actor
Tribu (1934)
Actor
Adam, Eve and the Devil (1945)
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 paloma (1937)
as Mariscal Bazaine
Las mujeres mandan (1937)
as Isidro Rodríguez
El padre Morelos (1943)
Actor
Those Who Dance (1930)
as Benson