Alfredo del Diestro
Nacimiento : 1885-10-07, Valparaíso, Chile
Muerte : 1951-01-01
Historia
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.
Writer
Un desconocido llega a un departamento, decide esperar y dar un recibimiento sorpresa al habitante. Éste llega a casa y abre su caja fuerte, entonces el misterioso hombre le apunta con una pistola, le dispara y el habitante muere. No toma o roba el dinero de la caja fuerte. Posteriormente, el asesino llega a la estación de policía a confesar el crimen que ha cometido y a entregarse a la justicia. Confirmado que ha cometido el asesinato, se le retiene. Entonces comienza la odisea de su abogado por defenderlo, a pesar de que el ahora llamado Asesino X, hace todo por evitar que así sea.
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...
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.
El hijo de un ranchero asesinado busca venganza y mientras tanto se enamora de una bella y rebelde mujer.
Don Eusebio
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.
Biography of early-1800s Mexican priest/statesman.
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
El Incurable (Don Atanasio)
Every passenger boarding The Express has a story.
Don Ramón
Cantinflas es el vivo retrato de Manolete, el famoso torero. Manolete está invitado a la fiesta de Anita y Cantinflas también quiere ir. Manolete viaja en en tren y Cantinflas en el mismo, pero sin billete. Para escapar del revisor Cantinflas roba la ropa de un viajero, que resulta ser Manolete. Manolete acaba en la cárcel mientras Cantinflas es recibido con todos los honores en la finca de Anita.
Andrés
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Gustavo Reynoso
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
El güero Margarito
Liderados por el capitán Anastasio Montañez, el recién formado ejército de campesinos -hartos de las injusticias de los federales-, toma como código de honor saquear las casas para repartir las riquezas.
El médico (Doctor Gutiérrez)
Un hombre muy avaro castiga cruelmente a sus dos hijas por haber decidido comprar un par de zapatos sin consultarselo, al darse cuenta de la gravedad del castigo trata de disculparse con ellas, pero ya es muy tarde, pues estas ya habían decidido abandonarlo.
Aging bank-teller gets mixed up with a nightclub singer.
Mariscal Bazaine
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.
The story of Mexican President Benito Juárez and the emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and the empress Carlota.
Rosalio Mendoza
During Mexican Revolution, Rosalio Mendoza survives by making and winning favors from both factions, the governmental forces and Zapata's Army. His hacienda welcomes everybody, and Mendoza is considered a good friend of his guests. Eventually, the situation becomes unsustainable and he has to take sides. Betrayal and deception overcome and Mendoza's dark side surfaces
La noche del pecado es una co-producción mexicana y norteamericana dirigida por Miguel Contreras Torres con Ernesto Vilches, Ramón Pereda, Medea de Novara y producida por Contreras Torres en 1933. Se estrenó en el Cine Palacio en enero 11 de 1934.
Colonel Julián Carrasco
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.
Jefe de policía
Dos historias enmarcadas por una fiesta de cumpleaños que es interrumpida por un asesinato y un secuestro. Una mujer (Zea) maldice a una familia por haber perdido a su hijito y eventualmente se suicida, convirtiéndose en la fantasmal figura que llora.
Medrano
A 1933 film.
Benson
Director
Art Direction
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Salomón
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.
