Alma Beltran

Alma Beltran (born August 22, 1919 – died June 9, 2007) was a Mexican-American veteran film, stage and television actress. She appeared in 82 films between 1945 and 2002. She is well recognized to American TV viewers as Mrs. Fuentes, the mother of Julio Fuentes, on the NBC-TV series Sanford and Son.

Life and career
Beltran started her film career in Hollywood in the uncredited role of Miss Guatemala in the film Pan-Americana (1945). From 1945 until her 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. Bonanza, Lou Grant, Knight Rider, The A-Team and The Jeffersons. On the big screen, in film, she appeared in such films as Jubilee Trail, Marathon Man, Oh, God! Book II, and most recently in Ghost (1990) which co-starred Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, and the 2002 comedy film Buying the Cow. As a member of the group of Mexican artists in Los Angeles, she participated in music festivals such as the Fiesta de la Raza.

Death
Beltran died in Northridge, California in 2007.