[1] He was born in Meis, Pontevedra[2] on 14 August 1924, and raised in Haro and Santander, where he studied Bachillerato.

[3] He began his career as a voice actor from 1942 to 1946, and in 1947 he made his film debut in Héroes del 95, directed by Raúl Alfonso.

[4] In the 1950s he moved to Mexico, and when he came back to Spain appeared in spaghetti westerns such as Gli eroi di Fort Worth (1965) by Martin Herbert, and Django (1966) by Sergio Corbucci.

[6] He started the Almeria Walk of Fame,[7] where he received a star in April 2012 due to his intervention in 7th Cavalry and Django.

In Mexico he married twice, once with the actress Carmelita González, with whom he had a daughter, Paloma del Rocío.