Alfredo del Diestro
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.
Known For
Ni sangre ni arena
The Underdogs
The Crying Woman
Se la llevó el Remington
Hombres del aire
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
El compadre Mendoza
Law of the Harem
All Movies (30)
- Un milagro de amor1949
- Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio1949
- La norteña de mis amores1948
- Se la llevó el Remington1948 · as Don Eusebio
- Adam, Eve and the Devil1945
- El padre Morelos1943
- Mi viuda alegre1942
- El rápido de las 9.151941 · as El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
- Ni sangre ni arena1941 · as Don Ramón
- Adios mi chaparrita1941 · as Andrés
- El jefe máximo1940
- Madre a la fuerza1940 · as Gustavo Reynoso
- The Underdogs1940 · as El güero Margarito
- La casa del ogro1939 · as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
- Hombres del aire1939
- Noches de gloria1938 · as Don Federico
- Las mujeres mandan1937
- La paloma1937 · as Mariscal Bazaine
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz1935 · as Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda
- Juarez and Maximilian1934
- El compadre Mendoza1934 · as Rosalio Mendoza
- Tribu1934
- La noche del pecado1933
- Prisoner 131933 · as Colonel Julián Carrasco
- The Crying Woman1933 · as Jefe de policía
- Shadow of Pancho Villa1933 · as Medrano
- Law of the Harem1931
- La dama atrevida1931 · as Fleming
- Those Who Dance1930 · as Benson
- María1922 · as Salomón