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.
31 movies
Un milagro de amor
1949·5.3
Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
1949·6.0
La norteña de mis amores
1948·6.9
Se la llevó el Remington
1948·5.8
Adam, Eve and the Devil
1945·6.3
El padre Morelos
1943·5.7
Mi viuda alegre
1942·5.7
El rápido de las 9.15
1941·5.8
Adios mi chaparrita
1941·5.7
Ni sangre ni arena
1941·7.4
El jefe máximo
1940·6.3
Madre a la fuerza
1940·6.0
The Underdogs
1940·6.3
La casa del ogro
1939·5.1
Hombres del aire
1939·6.7
Noches de gloria
1938·6.0
Nobleza ranchera
1938·6.0
Las mujeres mandan
1937·4.0
La paloma
1937·5.3
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1935·5.7
Juarez and Maximilian
1934·7.0
El compadre Mendoza
1934·6.7
Tribu
1934·6.0
La noche del pecado
1933·10.0
Prisoner 13
1933·6.7
The Crying Woman
1933·5.7
Shadow of Pancho Villa
1933·6.0
Law of the Harem
1931·9.0
La dama atrevida
1931·10.0
Those Who Dance
1930·9.0
María
1922·6.0