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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 7, 1885
Died
February 20, 1951
Place of Birth
Valparaíso, Chile
Also Known As
- Alfredo del Diestro Cavallté
Alfredo del Diestro
0.1 Popularity
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
5.3
Un milagro de amor
1949
5.0
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
1949
6.6
La norteña de mis amores
1948
5.6
Don Eusebio
Se la llevó el Remington
1948
🎬
5.0
Adam, Eve and the Devil
1945
5.0
El padre Morelos
1943
5.0
Mi viuda alegre
1942
5.3
El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
El rápido de las 9.15
1941
7.1
Don Ramón
Ni sangre ni arena
1941
🎬
5.0
Andrés
Adios mi chaparrita
1941
Credits
Un milagro de amor
1949
5.3
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
1949
5.0
La norteña de mis amores
1948
6.6
Se la llevó el Remington
as Don Eusebio
1948
5.6
🎬
Adam, Eve and the Devil
1945
5.0
El padre Morelos
1943
5.0
Mi viuda alegre
1942
5.0
El rápido de las 9.15
as El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
1941
5.3
Ni sangre ni arena
as Don Ramón
1941
7.1
🎬
Adios mi chaparrita
as Andrés
1941
5.0
El jefe máximo
1940
5.0
Madre a la fuerza
as Gustavo Reynoso
1940
5.0
The Underdogs
as El güero Margarito
1940
5.7
La casa del ogro
as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
1939
5.0
Hombres del aire
1939
5.0
Noches de gloria
as Don Federico
1938
5.0
Las mujeres mandan
1937
3.7
La paloma
as Mariscal Bazaine
1937
5.0
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1935
5.0
Juarez and Maximilian
1934
6.0
El compadre Mendoza
as Rosalio Mendoza
1934
6.4
La noche del pecado
1933
0.0
Prisoner 13
as Colonel Julián Carrasco
1933
6.7
The Crying Woman
as Jefe de policía
1933
5.3
Shadow of Pancho Villa
as Medrano
1933
5.7
Law of the Harem
1931
0.0
🎬
Those Who Dance
as Benson
1930
0.0
María
as Salomón
1922
5.0