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.
Birthday: October 07, 1885
Death: February 20, 1951
October 20, 1922
December 05, 1930
March 18, 1955
January 01, 1939
May 31, 1933
April 05, 1934
January 01, 1941
August 10, 1945
January 20, 1939
September 11, 1941
March 31, 1933
August 20, 1937
November 04, 1948
May 22, 1941
June 28, 1934
October 01, 1940
August 01, 1940
June 01, 1940
February 22, 1942
February 08, 1933
September 28, 1937
April 22, 1943
December 09, 1949
December 25, 1948
June 15, 1949
October 09, 1931
December 25, 1933
June 20, 1935