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Alfredo del Diestro

Alfredo del Diestro

Actor · Born 1885-10-07 · Valparaíso, Chile

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Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Ni sangre ni arena (1941) — Don Ramón
  2. El compadre Mendoza (1934) — Rosalio Mendoza
  3. The Crying Woman (1933) — Jefe de policía
  4. Prisoner 13 (1933) — Colonel Julián Carrasco
  5. La norteña de mis amores (1948)
  6. La casa del ogro (1939) — El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
  7. The Underdogs (1940) — El güero Margarito
  8. La paloma (1937) — Mariscal Bazaine
  9. Se la llevó el Remington (1948) — Don Eusebio
  10. Juarez and Maximilian (1934)
  11. Las mujeres mandan (1937) — Isidro Rodríguez
  12. Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio (1949)
  13. El rápido de las 9.15 (1941) — El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
  14. Shadow of Pancho Villa (1933) — Medrano
  15. Un milagro de amor (1949)
  16. Hombres del aire (1939)
  17. Adios mi chaparrita (1941) — Andrés
  18. Adam, Eve and the Devil (1945)
  19. Madre a la fuerza (1940) — Gustavo Reynoso
  20. El jefe máximo (1940)
  21. Mi viuda alegre (1942)
  22. El padre Morelos (1943)
  23. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1935) — Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda
  24. Noches de gloria (1938) — Don Federico
  25. Tribu (1934)
  26. Nobleza ranchera (1938)
  27. María (1922) — Salomón
  28. Those Who Dance (1930) — Benson
  29. Law of the Harem (1931)
  30. La noche del pecado (1933)
  31. La dama atrevida (1931) — Fleming

Directed

  1. María (1922) — Director
  2. Those Who Dance (1930) — Director