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.
The Crying Woman
as Jefe de policíaLlorona is a figure unique to Mexican folklore -- the wailing spirit of a woman who lost or...
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El compadre Mendoza
as Rosalio MendozaIn the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the...
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Se la llevó el Remington
as Don EusebioWhile tracking down the three men that killed his father, a notorious bad-ass commits other...
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The Underdogs
as El güero MargaritoDuring the Mexican Revolution, the people tired of living in poverty and enduring the atrocities...
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Ni sangre ni arena
as Don RamónCantinflas enjoys the bullfight show, and wants to crash in every of these spectacles. Also,...
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El padre Morelos
as uncreditedBiography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
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La paloma
as Mariscal BazaineDazzled by the Empress Carlotta's graciousness, magnanimity and charm, a young officer in the...
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La casa del ogro
as El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)Lives of the tenants in a shabby-genteel apartment house. Miserly landlord learns valuable life...
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Ahí viene Vidal Tenorio
as uncreditedTwo military goons slaughter a young man's parents and siblings. A few years later, the same...
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La norteña de mis amores
as uncreditedChild whose father was murdered grows up and seeks revenge, also falling in love with a new...
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Las mujeres mandan
as uncreditedAging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer.
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Prisoner 13
as Colonel Julián CarrascoColonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an...
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Juarez and Maximilian
as uncreditedThe story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the...
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El rápido de las 9.15
as El Incurable (Don Atanasio)Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
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El jefe máximo
as uncreditedA 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
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Un milagro de amor
as uncreditedYoung man goes to Mexico City in search of opportunity and gets framed for another person's...
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María
as SalomónMaría tells the tragic love story of María, a beautiful young woman, and her half brother...
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Madre a la fuerza
as Gustavo ReynosoA 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
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La noche del pecado
as uncreditedLa noche del pecado is a Mexican and North American co-production directed by Miguel Contreras...
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