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Alfredo del Diestro

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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.

07-10-1885

Birthday

Libra

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27

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Valparaíso, Chile

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

27 Works

producer

0 Works

director

5 Works

writer

2 Works

other

1 Works

Un milagro de amor

Un milagro de amor

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 home, his fiancée the blind woman...
5.3

Year:

1949

Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio

Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio

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 for target practice. Enough is enough.
5.0

Year:

1949

La norteña de mis amores

La norteña de mis amores

Child whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new victim of the same bad guy.
6.6

Year:

1948

Se la llevó el Remington

Se la llevó el Remington

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 lives as possible. Doesn't really have anything to do with the historical figure known as Remington, though they used his name for the character here.
5.6

Year:

1948

El padre Morelos

El padre Morelos

Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
5.0

Year:

1943

Mi viuda alegre

Mi viuda alegre

A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
5.0

Year:

1942

El rápido de las 9.15

El rápido de las 9.15

Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
5.3

Year:

1941

Ni sangre ni arena

Ni sangre ni arena

Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is identical to Cantinflas. Manolete has to give a bullfight show in a village, but Cantinflas arrives first as a stowaway in a train, and he'll be mistake by the real bullfighter. Cantinflas will give us a demonstration of courage.
7.2

Year:

1941

El jefe máximo

El jefe máximo

A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
5.0

Year:

1940

Madre a la fuerza

Madre a la fuerza

A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
5.0

Year:

1940

The Underdogs

The Underdogs

During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of their own, General Demetrio Macias, a thief with tricks he learned in jail and who along with "La Pintada" decides to take his people to victory. Led by Captain Anastacio Montañez, the newly formed army fight and honor their code at the same time as they loot houses to spread the wealth.
5.7

Year:

1940

La casa del ogro

La casa del ogro

Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
5.0

Year:

1939

Hombres del aire

Hombres del aire

5.0

Year:

1939

Las mujeres mandan

Las mujeres mandan

Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer.
3.7

Year:

1937

La paloma

La paloma

Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial government with Maximilian as figurehead. Bad move, space cadet.
5.0

Year:

1937

Juarez and Maximilian

Juarez and Maximilian

The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
6.0

Year:

1934

El compadre Mendoza

El compadre Mendoza

In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the former, he is a supporter of Huerta. For the latter, he is a Zapata supporter. Depending on the political preference of whoever visits him at his hacienda, he has portraits of Huerta or Zapata put up, and organizes a party in honor of his visitors. However, time goes by and the situation becomes untenable. For whom will he take sides?
6.4

Year:

1934

La noche del pecado

La noche del pecado

La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Novara and produced by Contreras Torres in 1933.
0.0

Year:

1933

Prisoner 13

Prisoner 13

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 promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe Martinez, from his prison. Martinez has been sentenced to execution at the hands of a firing squad. Carrasco asks to have the revolutionary replaced by absolutely anyone. In a twist of fate, that anyone turns out to be his own long lost son Juan. Upon receiving this news, Marta races to the prison and explains the predicament to Carrasco. He subsequently desperately attempts to prevent the gunning down of his son by his very own government officials.
6.7

Year:

1933

The Crying Woman

The Crying Woman

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 the living. With its framing story and flashback structure, this film sets forth a couple of variations of the story.
5.3

Year:

1933

Shadow of Pancho Villa

Shadow of Pancho Villa

A 1933 film.
5.7

Year:

1933

Law of the Harem

Law of the Harem

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 it is just the beginning of a breathless adventure that will put both their lives at risk!
0.0

Year:

1931

Those Who Dance

Those Who Dance

0.0

Year:

1930

María

María

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 fall in love and live their romance on the farm "El Paraíso", in Valle del Cauca, but not everything is rosy, since Efraín must go to Bogotá because of study reasons leaving María with pain in her soul. Some time later, María becomes ill and Emma tells her brother about the situation.
5.0

Year:

1922