In 1938, after the Spanish Civil War broke out, the young Andrés worked as an amateur street actor and then as a "galán cómico" in the Salvador Videgain theatre company.

In 1940, he played roles in the Isbert, Infanta Isabel and María Guerrero theatre companies, among others.

In the 1980s, Andrés starred in numerous comedy films, winning the affection as a humorist and also in the TV series Celia and Lorca la muerte de un poeta of Juan Antonio Bardem.

In the 1988 he played the character of Zenón de Somodevilla in Josefina Molina film's Esquilache with Fernando Fernán Gómez and Concha Velasco.

After suffering a paralysis due to a thrombus in the 1990s, he retired from the theaters, but not from television screens.