Beltran started her film career in Hollywood in the uncredited role of Miss Guatemala in the film Pan-Americana (1945) (1945). From 1945 to 2002, in addition to her film roles, Beltran played over 80 roles in film and television, often in smaller roles, always as Mexican women, and then later in her career, as family matriarch types or senoritas. These included guest roles in such popular TV series as The F.B.I. (1965), Bonanza (1959), Lou Grant (1977), Knight Rider (1982), The A-Team (1983) and The Jeffersons (1975). On the big screen, in film, she appeared in such films as Jubilee Trail, Marathon Man (1976), Oh, God! Book II (1980), and most recently in Ghost (1990) which co-starred Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, and the 2002 comedy film Buying the Cow (2002). She died in Northridge, California in 2007.
Alma Beltran
Movies
Ghost
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the Earth as a powerless spirit. When he learns of…
Fun Facts
Attractive, brunette actress of stage, screen and radio, born in Sonora, Mexico. In Hollywood from 1945, she was mainly confined to playing small 'south of the border' supporting roles, but kept a busy profile with many TV appearances throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
When she and her family moved to California they maintained a good living by means of running a restaurant in Los Angeles.
Before she was an actress, she was a radio personality in her native country.
Was never a leading lady, she always appeared in supporting roles.
Is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
As a member of the group of Mexican artists in Los Angeles, she participated in music festivals such as the Fiesta de la Raza.
Was a registered Republican.
Was a naturalized citizen of the United States.
She was well recognized to American TV viewers as Mrs. Fuentes, the mother of Julio Fuentes, on the NBC-TV series Sanford and Son (1972).
Was a singer with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra in the mid-1940s.
When she retired in 2002, she spent the last years of her life voluntarily teaching drama and speech at the UCLA.
Her husband, Orlando Alfredo Beltran, worked for over 20 years as a staff member for the Philosophical Research Society, founded by Philosopher, Manly Palmer Hall. His published writings include most notably, "Symbolism of Oriental Religious Art"". They wed in 1944 and she used her married name when she began her acting career. She was widowed in 1957