Alfredo del Diestro
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
Ni sangre ni arena
as Don Ramón 1941
El compadre Mendoza
as Rosalio Mendoza 1934
The Crying Woman
as Jefe de policía 1933
Prisoner 13
as Colonel Julián Carrasco 1933
La norteña de mis amores
1948
La casa del ogro
as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez) 1939
The Underdogs
as El güero Margarito 1940
La paloma
as Mariscal Bazaine 1937
Se la llevó el Remington
as Don Eusebio 1948
Juarez and Maximilian
1934
Las mujeres mandan
1937
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
1949
El rápido de las 9.15
as El Incurable (Don Atanasio) 1941
Shadow of Pancho Villa
as Medrano 1933
Un milagro de amor
1949
Hombres del aire
1939
Adios mi chaparrita
as Andrés 1941