Alfredo del Diestro
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 7, 1885
- Died
- February 20, 1951 (aged 65)
- Birthplace
- Valparaíso, Chile
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
Nobleza ranchera
Movie
Un milagro de amor
Movie
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Movie
Se la llevó el Remington
Movie · as Don Eusebio
La norteña de mis amores
Movie
Mary Magdalene, Sinner of Magdala
Movie · as Joaquín
Adam, Eve and the Devil
Movie
Como yo te quería
Movie · as Don Antonio
Tribunal de Justicia
Movie
Adiós, Mariquita linda
Movie
El camino de los gatos
Movie · as Don Alberto de la Fuente
Viejo nido
Movie
El padre Morelos
Movie
Mi viuda alegre
Movie
Adios mi chaparrita
Movie · as Andrés
El rápido de las 9.15
Movie · as El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
Neither Blood Nor Sand
Movie · as Don Ramón
El jefe máximo
Movie
Madre a la fuerza
Movie · as Gustavo Reynoso
The Underdogs
Movie · as El güero Margarito
Hombres del aire
Movie
La casa del ogro
Movie · as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
Noches de gloria
Movie · as Don Federico
Padre de más de cuatro
Movie · as Don Francisco Fernández de la Vuente y Villar de las Alpujarras
Alarma
Movie · as Pedro Alvarez
La paloma
Movie · as Mariscal Bazaine
Las mujeres mandan
Movie · as Isidro Rodríguez
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Movie · as Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda
Silencio sublime
Movie · as Antonio Rodríguez
El compadre Mendoza
Movie · as Rosalio Mendoza
Juarez and Maximilian
Movie
Tribu
Movie
Oro y plata
Movie · as Don Ridrigo
Chucho el Roto
Movie · as Don Diego de Frizac
Prisoner 13
Movie · as Colonel Julián Carrasco
The Crying Woman
Movie · as Jefe de policía
Shadow of Pancho Villa
Movie · as Medrano
La noche del pecado
Movie
Soñadores de gloria
Movie · as Don Manuel
Una vida por otra
Movie · as Agente del ministerio público
Law of the Harem
Movie
La dama atrevida
Movie · as Fleming
El pasado acusa
Movie · as Detective Palmer
Those Who Dance
Movie · as Benson
María
Movie · as Salomón