Alfredo del Diestro

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Alfredo del Diestro

Acting October 7, 1885

Valparaíso, Chile

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, Al…

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Neither Blood Nor Sand

Neither Blood Nor Sand

7.5 1941 Movie
El compadre Mendoza

El compadre Mendoza

6.7 1934 Movie
The Crying Woman

The Crying Woman

5.7 1933 Movie
Shadow of Pancho Villa

Shadow of Pancho Villa

6.0 1933 Movie
Prisoner 13

Prisoner 13

6.7 1933 Movie
María

María

6.0 1922 Movie
The Underdogs

The Underdogs

6.3 1940 Movie
La casa del ogro

La casa del ogro

5.1 1939 Movie
Nobleza ranchera

Nobleza ranchera

6.0 Movie
La norteña de mis amores

La norteña de mis amores

6.9 1948 Movie
La paloma

La paloma

5.3 1937 Movie
Juarez and Maximilian

Juarez and Maximilian

7.0 1934 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 1955
    X Murderer

    Movie Writer

  2. 1949
    Un milagro de amor

    Movie

  3. 1949
    Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio

    Movie

  4. 1948
    La norteña de mis amores

    Movie

  5. 1948
    Se la llevó el Remington

    Movie Don Eusebio

  6. 1945
    Adam, Eve and the Devil

    Movie

  7. 1943
    El padre Morelos

    Movie

  8. 1942
    Mi viuda alegre

    Movie

  9. 1941
    El rápido de las 9.15

    Movie El Incurable (Don Atanasio)

  10. 1941
    Adios mi chaparrita

    Movie Andrés

  11. 1941
    Neither Blood Nor Sand

    Movie Don Ramón

  12. 1940
    El jefe máximo

    Movie

  13. 1940
    Madre a la fuerza

    Movie Gustavo Reynoso

  14. 1940
    The Underdogs

    Movie El güero Margarito

  15. 1939
    La casa del ogro

    Movie El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)

  16. 1939
    Hombres del aire

    Movie

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  1. 1938
    Noches de gloria

    Movie Don Federico

  2. 1937
    Las mujeres mandan

    Movie Isidro Rodríguez

  3. 1937
    La paloma

    Movie Mariscal Bazaine

  4. 1935
    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

    Movie Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda

  5. 1934
    Juarez and Maximilian

    Movie

  6. 1934
    El compadre Mendoza

    Movie Rosalio Mendoza

  7. 1934
    Tribu

    Movie

  8. 1933
    La noche del pecado

    Movie

  9. 1933
    Prisoner 13

    Movie Colonel Julián Carrasco

  10. 1933
    The Crying Woman

    Movie Jefe de policía

  11. 1933
    Shadow of Pancho Villa

    Movie Medrano

  12. 1931
    Law of the Harem

    Movie

  13. 1931
    La dama atrevida

    Movie Fleming

  14. 1930
    Those Who Dance

    Movie Benson

  15. 1922
    María

    Movie Salomón

  16. —
    Nobleza ranchera

    Movie