Acting
Alfredo del Diestro
ES, EN, XX cinema · 32 credits
Born
7 October 1885
Died
20 February 1951 (aged 65)
Birthplace
Valparaíso, Chile
Also known as Alfredo del Diestro Cavallté
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
Filmography
X Murderer
Writer
Se la llevó el Remington
as Don Eusebio
El rápido de las 9.15
as El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
Neither Blood Nor Sand
as Don Ramón
Madre a la fuerza
as Gustavo Reynoso
The Underdogs
as El güero Margarito
La casa del ogro
as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
Noches de gloria
as Don Federico
La paloma
as Mariscal Bazaine
Las mujeres mandan
as Isidro Rodríguez
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
as Padre Antonio Núñez de Miranda
El compadre Mendoza
as Rosalio Mendoza
Tribu
Actor
Prisoner 13
as Colonel Julián Carrasco
The Crying Woman
as Jefe de policía
Shadow of Pancho Villa
as Medrano
La dama atrevida
as Fleming
Those Who Dance
as Benson, Director
María
as Salomón, Director, Writer, Art Direction