Alfredo del Diestro

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.

  • Title: Alfredo del Diestro
  • Popularity: 1.201
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1885-10-07
  • Place of Birth: Valparaíso, Chile
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  • Also Known As: Alfredo del Diestro Cavallté
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Alfredo del Diestro Movies

  • 1939
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    Hombres del aire

    Hombres del aire

    5 1939 HD

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  • 1933
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    Prisoner 13

    Prisoner 13

    6.7 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1934
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    El compadre Mendoza

    El compadre Mendoza

    6.4 1934 HD

    In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the...

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  • 1941
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    Adios mi chaparrita

    Adios mi chaparrita

    5 1941 HD

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  • 1945
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    Adam, Eve and the Devil

    Adam, Eve and the Devil

    5 1945 HD

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  • 1939
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    La casa del ogro

    La casa del ogro

    5 1939 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    El rápido de las 9.15

    El rápido de las 9.15

    5.3 1941 HD

    Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.

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  • 1933
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    The Crying Woman

    The Crying Woman

    5.3 1933 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    La paloma

    La paloma

    5 1937 HD

    Dazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the Mexican army switches his allegiance to the Imperial...

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  • 1948
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    Se la llevó el Remington

    Se la llevó el Remington

    5.6 1948 HD

    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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  • 1930
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    Those Who Dance

    Those Who Dance

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1941
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    Ni sangre ni arena

    Ni sangre ni arena

    7.2 1941 HD

    Cantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also, there's a professional bullfighter, Manolete, who is...

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  • 1934
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    Juarez and Maximilian

    Juarez and Maximilian

    6 1934 HD

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

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  • 1940
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    Madre a la fuerza

    Madre a la fuerza

    5 1940 HD

    A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.

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  • 1940
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    El jefe máximo

    El jefe máximo

    5 1940 HD

    A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.

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  • 1942
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    Mi viuda alegre

    Mi viuda alegre

    5 1942 HD

    A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.

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  • 1940
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    The Underdogs

    The Underdogs

    5.7 1940 HD

    During the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities committed by the federals, decide to follow one of...

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  • 1933
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    Shadow of Pancho Villa

    Shadow of Pancho Villa

    5.7 1933 HD

    A 1933 film.

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  • 1937
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    Las mujeres mandan

    Las mujeres mandan

    3.7 1937 HD

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

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  • 1943
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    El padre Morelos

    El padre Morelos

    5 1943 HD

    Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.

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  • 1949
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    Un milagro de amor

    Un milagro de amor

    5.3 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    La norteña de mis amores

    La norteña de mis amores

    6.6 1948 HD

    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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  • 1949
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    Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio

    Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio

    5 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1931
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    Law of the Harem

    Law of the Harem

    1 1931 HD

    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...

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  • 1933
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    La noche del pecado

    La noche del pecado

    1 1933 HD

    La noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras Torres with Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda,...

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  • 1935
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    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

    5 1935 HD

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  • 1922
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    María

    María

    5 1922 HD

    María tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother Efraín, a handsome young man from...

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  • 1922
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    María

    María

    5 1922 HD

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  • 1930
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    Those Who Dance

    Those Who Dance

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1922
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    María

    María

    5 1922 HD

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  • 1922
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    María

    María

    5 1922 HD

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  • 1955
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    X Murderer

    X Murderer

    5.2 1955 HD

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