
Alfredo del Diestro
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.
Acting (26 movies)

Hombres del aire
1939

Prisoner 13
1933

El compadre Mendoza
1934

La casa del ogro
1939

El rápido de las 9.15
1941

The Crying Woman
1933

La paloma
1937

Se la llevó el Remington
1948

Ni sangre ni arena
1941

Juarez and Maximilian
1934

Madre a la fuerza
1940

El jefe máximo
1940

The Underdogs
1940

Mi viuda alegre
1942

Shadow of Pancho Villa
1933

Las mujeres mandan
1937

El padre Morelos
1943

Un milagro de amor
1949

La norteña de mis amores
1948

Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
1949

Law of the Harem
1931

La noche del pecado
1933

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1935

María
1922

Noches de gloria
1938

Tribu
1934
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| María | 1922 | Writer | 
| X Murderer | 1955 | Writer |