Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 07, 1885
Died
Feb 20, 1951
Place of Birth
Valparaíso, Chile
Credits
32 titles
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
Filmography
X Murderer
Writer
Un milagro de amor
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
La norteña de mis amores
Se la llevó el Remington
Don Eusebio
Adam, Eve and the Devil
El padre Morelos
Mi viuda alegre
El rápido de las 9.15
El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
Adios mi chaparrita
Andrés
Ni sangre ni arena
Don Ramón
El jefe máximo
Madre a la fuerza
Gustavo Reynoso
The Underdogs
El güero Margarito
La casa del ogro
El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
Hombres del aire
Nobleza ranchera
Noches de gloria
Don Federico
Las mujeres mandan
Isidro Rodríguez
La paloma
Mariscal Bazaine
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda
Juarez and Maximilian
El compadre Mendoza
Rosalio Mendoza
Tribu
La noche del pecado
Prisoner 13
Colonel Julián Carrasco
The Crying Woman
Jefe de policía
Shadow of Pancho Villa
Medrano
Law of the Harem
La dama atrevida
Fleming
Those Who Dance
Benson
María
Salomón