He appeared in films such as Escuela de rateros (1958) alongside Pedro Infante.
[1] He also worked as voice actor in many movies and cartoons.
In 1949, while working at Radio Quito in Ecuador, he participated in an adaptation of The War of the Worlds, similar to how Orson Welles had done a decade earlier in the United States.
Alcaraz was in charge of the script of this new version, which like Welles's version represented the events narrated as if it were a true transmission.
When it was revealed that it was a fictional story, a crowd made their way to the El Comercio newspaper building, where the radio worked, and set it on fire.