Born Alma Leonor Martinez, Alma 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 she appeared in such films as Marathon Man, Oh, God! Book II, Ghost and her final credit in the 2002 comedy film Buying the Cow
