Alfredo del Diestro
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.087 |
Birthday | 1885-10-07 |
Place of Birth | Valparaíso, Chile |
Also Known As | Alfredo del Diestro Cavallté, |
1939
Hombres del aire
5/2
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Hombres del aire
1933
Prisoner 13
6.7/14
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promo...
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Prisoner 13
1934
El compadre Mendoza
6.3/22
In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the forme...
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El compadre Mendoza
1941
Adios mi chaparrita
5/2
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Adios mi chaparrita
1945
Adam, Eve and the Devil
5/2
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Adam, Eve and the Devil
1939
La casa del ogro
5/5
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
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La casa del ogro
1941
El rápido de las 9.15
5.3/3
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
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El rápido de las 9.15
1933
The Crying Woman
5.3/18
Llorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or killed her child and now returns to seek revenge and haunt...
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The Crying Woman
1937
La paloma
5/5
Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial gov...
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La paloma
1948
Se la llevó el Remington
5.6/5
While tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other misdeeds, seemingly based on his desire to wreck as many...
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Se la llevó el Remington
1930
Those Who Dance
0/0
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Those Who Dance
1941
Ni sangre ni arena
7.2/18
Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is iden...
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Ni sangre ni arena
1934
Juarez and Maximilian
6/5
The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
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Juarez and Maximilian
1940
Madre a la fuerza
5/2
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
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Madre a la fuerza
1940
El jefe máximo
5/2
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
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El jefe máximo
1942
Mi viuda alegre
5/2
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
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Mi viuda alegre
1940
The Underdogs
5.7/6
During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of th...
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The Underdogs
1933
Shadow of Pancho Villa
5.7/3
A 1933 film.
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Shadow of Pancho Villa
1937
Las mujeres mandan
3.7/3
Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer.
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Las mujeres mandan
1943
El padre Morelos
5/2
Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
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El padre Morelos
1949
Un milagro de amor
5.3/3
Young man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's embezzlement at their place of employ. Meanwhile, back hom...
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Un milagro de amor
1948
La norteña de mis amores
6.571/7
Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
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La norteña de mis amores
1949
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
5/4
Two military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same guys rape and murder his wife, then use their young son f...
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Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
1931
Law of the Harem
0/0
When Renée Duval, a Frenchwoman who had been on her way to Venice, is discovered by Al-Hadi, an Arabian prince in the wreckage of an ambushed caravan...
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Law of the Harem
1933
La noche del pecado
0/0
La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Nov...
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La noche del pecado
1935
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
5/2
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1922
María
5/1
María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from Valle del Cauca. They both...
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