Alfredo del Diestro

Alfredo del Diestro

Acting 1885-10-07 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.

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1941 Don Ramón
1940 Gustavo Reynoso
1940 El güero Margarito
1939 El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
1938 Don Federico
1937 Mariscal Bazaine
1934 Rosalio Mendoza
1934
1933 Colonel Julián Carrasco
1933 Jefe de policía
1933 Medrano
1931 Fleming
1930 Benson
1930 Director
1922 Salomón
1922 Director
1922 Writer
1922 Art Direction