- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAlma Leonor Martinez
- Nicknames
- Ally
- Bella
- Height1.71 m
- Beltran started her film career in Hollywood in the uncredited role of Miss Guatemala in the film Sérénade américaine (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 Sur la piste du crime (1965), Bonanza (1959), Lou Grant (1977), K 2000 (1982), L'agence tous risques (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.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseOrlando Alfredo Beltran(1944 - October 2, 1957) (his death)
- ParentsConcepcion Lizarraga MartinezYgnacio S. Martinez
- Dark brown hair
- Soft Mexican accent
- Was a naturalized citizen of the United States.
- Was a singer with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra in the mid-1940s.
- 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.
- 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.
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