Alma Beltran

When she retired in 2002, she spent the last years of her life voluntarily teaching drama and speech at the UCLA.

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 was well recognized to American TV viewers as Mrs. Fuentes, the mother of Julio Fuentes, on the NBC-TV series Sanford and Son (1972).

(1965), Bonanza (1959), Lou Grant (1977), Knight Rider (1982), The A-Team (1983) and The Jeffersons (1975).

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.

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, when he died unexpectedly from a heart attack at age 51.

Was a singer with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra in the mid-1940s.