Alfredo del Diestro

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: Acting

Born: Valparaíso, Chile, 1885-10-07

Died: 1951-02-20

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1922	María	Salomón	50
2	1930	Those Who Dance	Benson	0
3	1931	Law of the Harem		0
4	1933	Shadow of Pancho Villa	Medrano	57
5	1933	The Crying Woman	Jefe de policía	53
6	1933	Prisoner 13	Colonel Julián Carrasco	67
7	1933	La noche del pecado		0
8	1934	El compadre Mendoza	Rosalio Mendoza	64
9	1934	Juarez and Maximilian		60
10	1935	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz		50
11	1937	La paloma	Mariscal Bazaine	50
12	1937	Las mujeres mandan		37
13	1938	Noches de gloria	Don Federico	50
14	1939	Hombres del aire		50
15	1939	La casa del ogro	El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)	50
16	1940	The Underdogs	El güero Margarito	57
17	1940	Madre a la fuerza	Gustavo Reynoso	50
18	1940	El jefe máximo		50
19	1941	Adios mi chaparrita	Andrés	50
20	1941	Ni sangre ni arena	Don Ramón	71
21	1941	El rápido de las 9.15	El Incurable (Don Atanasio)	53
22	1942	Mi viuda alegre		50
23	1943	El padre Morelos		50
24	1945	Adam, Eve and the Devil		50
25	1948	Se la llevó el Remington	Don Eusebio	56
26	1948	La norteña de mis amores		66
27	1949	Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio		50
28	1949	Un milagro de amor		53

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1922