
Actor
Alfredo del Diestro
Born 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, 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.
Acting

Ni sangre ni arena
Don Ramón · 1941

El compadre Mendoza
Rosalio Mendoza · 1934

La dama atrevida
Fleming · 1931

Those Who Dance
Benson · 1930

Prisoner 13
Colonel Julián Carrasco · 1933

The Crying Woman
Jefe de policía · 1933

The Underdogs
El güero Margarito · 1940

Se la llevó el Remington
Don Eusebio · 1948

Shadow of Pancho Villa
Medrano · 1933

Madre a la fuerza
Gustavo Reynoso · 1940

Noches de gloria
Don Federico · 1938
El rápido de las 9.15
El Incurable (Don Atanasio) · 1941

María
Salomón · 1922

La paloma
Mariscal Bazaine · 1937

La casa del ogro
El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez) · 1939
Adios mi chaparrita
Andrés · 1941

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda · 1935
