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.
Filmography
all 37
Movies 37
Director 2
Writer 1
X Murderer (1955)
Un milagro de amor (1949)
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio (1949)
La norteña de mis amores (1948)
Se la llevó el Remington (1948)
Como yo te quería (1945)
Adam, Eve and the Devil (1945)
El padre Morelos (1943)
Mi viuda alegre (1942)
El rápido de las 9.15 (1941)
Ni sangre ni arena (1941)
Adios mi chaparrita (1941)
El jefe máximo (1940)
Madre a la fuerza (1940)
The Underdogs (1940)
La casa del ogro (1939)
Hombres del aire (1939)
Alarma (1938)
Nobleza ranchera (1938)
Padre de más de cuatro (1938)
Noches de gloria (1938)
Las mujeres mandan (1937)
La paloma (1937)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1935)
Silencio sublime (1935)
Nothing More Than a Woman (1934)
Juarez and Maximilian (1934)
El compadre Mendoza (1934)
Oro y plata (1934)
Chucho el Roto (1934)
La noche del pecado (1933)
Prisoner 13 (1933)
The Crying Woman (1933)
Shadow of Pancho Villa (1933)
Law of the Harem (1931)
Those who dance (1930)
María (1922)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1885-10-07
Deathday1951-01-01 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceValparaíso, Chile
CitizenshipsChile
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