Alfredo del Diestro

Alfredo del Diestro

Born: October 7, 1885
Died: January 1, 1951
in Valparaíso, Chile
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.

Movies for Alfredo del Diestro...

Un milagro de amor
Title: Un milagro de amor
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
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...
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Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Title: Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
Released: June 15, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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La norteña de mis amores
Title: La norteña de mis amores
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
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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Se la llevó el Remington
Title: Se la llevó el Remington
Character: Don Eusebio
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
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.
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Adam, Eve and the Devil
Title: Adam, Eve and the Devil
Released: August 10, 1945
Type: Movie
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El padre Morelos
Title: El padre Morelos
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
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Mi viuda alegre
Title: Mi viuda alegre
Released: February 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
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El rápido de las 9.15
Title: El rápido de las 9.15
Character: El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
Released: September 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
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Ni sangre ni arena
Title: Ni sangre ni arena
Character: Don Ramón
Released: May 22, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Adios mi chaparrita
Title: Adios mi chaparrita
Character: Andrés
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
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El jefe máximo
Title: El jefe máximo
Released: October 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
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Madre a la fuerza
Title: Madre a la fuerza
Character: Gustavo Reynoso
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
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The Underdogs
Title: The Underdogs
Character: El güero Margarito
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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La casa del ogro
Title: La casa del ogro
Character: El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
Released: January 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life lessons.
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Hombres del aire
Title: Hombres del aire
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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Las mujeres mandan
Title: Las mujeres mandan
Released: September 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer.
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La paloma
Title: La paloma
Character: Mariscal Bazaine
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Title: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Released: June 20, 1935
Type: Movie
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Juarez and Maximilian
Title: Juarez and Maximilian
Released: June 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
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El compadre Mendoza
Title: El compadre Mendoza
Character: Rosalio Mendoza
Released: April 5, 1934
Type: Movie
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?
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La noche del pecado
Title: La noche del pecado
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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Prisoner 13
Title: Prisoner 13
Character: Colonel Julián Carrasco
Released: May 31, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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The Crying Woman
Title: The Crying Woman
Character: Jefe de policía
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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Shadow of Pancho Villa
Title: Shadow of Pancho Villa
Character: Medrano
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A 1933 film.
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Law of the Harem
Title: Law of the Harem
Released: October 9, 1931
Type: Movie
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Those who dance
Title: Those who dance
Character: Benson
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
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María
Title: María
Character: Salomón
Released: October 20, 1922
Type: Movie
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.