Alfredo del Diestro
Actor
- Born
- October 7, 1885 · Valparaíso, Chile
- Died
- February 20, 1951 (age 65)
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
Neither Blood Nor Sand
May 22, 1941
El compadre Mendoza
April 5, 1934
The Crying Woman
May 25, 1933
Prisoner 13
May 31, 1933
La norteña de mis amores
December 25, 1948
La casa del ogro
January 20, 1939
The Underdogs
June 1, 1940
La paloma
August 20, 1937
Se la llevó el Remington
November 4, 1948
Juarez and Maximilian
June 28, 1934
Las mujeres mandan
August 27, 1937
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
June 15, 1949
Acting31
- 1949Un milagro de amor
- 1949Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
- 1948La norteña de mis amores
- 1948Se la llevó el Remington as Don Eusebio
- 1945Adam, Eve and the Devil
- 1943El padre Morelos
- 1942Mi viuda alegre
- 1941El rápido de las 9.15 as El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
- 1941Adios mi chaparrita as Andrés
- 1941Neither Blood Nor Sand as Don Ramón
- 1940El jefe máximo