
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.

Ni sangre ni arena

El prisionero 13

La norteña de mis amores

El compadre Mendoza

Juárez y Maximiliano: la caída de un imperio

Los de abajo

Revolución

Se la llevó el Remington

La Llorona

Un milagro de amor

Hombres del aire

La paloma

Madre a la fuerza

El jefe máximo

Mi viuda alegre

El padre Morelos

Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

María

Noches de gloria

Tribu

La casa del ogro

Las mujeres mandan

La ley del harem

La noche del pecado

La dama atrevida