Alfredo del Diestro
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
- 1949 · Un milagro de amor as
- 1949 · Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio as
- 1948 · La norteña de mis amores as
- 1948 · Se la llevó el Remington as Don Eusebio
- 1946 · Mary Magdalene, Sinner of Magdala as Joaquín
- 1945 · Como yo te quería as Don Antonio
- 1945 · Adam, Eve and the Devil as
- 1944 · El camino de los gatos as Don Alberto de la Fuente
- 1944 · Adiós, Mariquita linda as
- 1944 · Tribunal de Justicia as
- 1944 · Viejo nido as
- 1943 · El padre Morelos as
- 1942 · Mi viuda alegre as
- 1941 · El rápido de las 9.15 as El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
- 1941 · Adios mi chaparrita as Andrés
- 1941 · Neither Blood Nor Sand as Don Ramón
- 1940 · El jefe máximo as
- 1940 · Madre a la fuerza as Gustavo Reynoso
- 1940 · The Underdogs as El güero Margarito
- 1939 · La casa del ogro as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
- 1939 · Hombres del aire as
- 1938 · Padre de más de cuatro as Don Francisco Fernández de la Vuente y Villar de las Alpujarras
- 1938 · Alarma as Pedro Alvarez
- 1938 · Noches de gloria as Don Federico
- 1937 · Las mujeres mandan as Isidro Rodríguez
- 1937 · La paloma as Mariscal Bazaine
- 1935 · Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz as Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda
- 1935 · Silencio sublime as Antonio Rodríguez
- 1934 · Juarez and Maximilian as
- 1934 · El compadre Mendoza as Rosalio Mendoza
- 1934 · Tribu as
- 1934 · Oro y plata as Don Ridrigo
- 1934 · Chucho el Roto as Don Diego de Frizac
- 1933 · La noche del pecado as
- 1933 · Prisoner 13 as Colonel Julián Carrasco
- 1933 · Shadow of Pancho Villa as Medrano
- Future · Nobleza ranchera as
- 1933 · The Crying Woman as Jefe de policía
- 1932 · Soñadores de gloria as Don Manuel
- 1932 · Una vida por otra as Agente del ministerio público
- 1931 · El pasado acusa as Detective Palmer
- 1931 · Law of the Harem as
- 1931 · La dama atrevida as Fleming
- 1930 · Those Who Dance as Benson
- 1922 · María as Salomón