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
F.B.I. (1965),
Bonanza (1959),
Lou Grant (1977),
Knight Rider (1982),
Das A-Team (1983) and
Die Jeffersons (1975). On the
big screen, in film, she appeared in such films as Jubilee Trail,
Der Marathon-Mann (1976),
Tracy trifft den lieben Gott (1980), and
most recently in Ghost - Nachricht von Sam (1990) which
co-starred Demi Moore,
Patrick Swayze and
Whoopi Goldberg, and the 2002 comedy
film Die Hochzeitsfalle (2002). She
died in Northridge, California in 2007.
