His first appearance was in 1984, in the telenovela Andrea, Justicia de mujer, but due to his exile in the Soviet Union, he was banned from television until 1990.
He also participated in the children's program Pin Pon on TVN between 1991 and 1993 with Jorge Guerra characterizing Amigo Pepe.
[2][3][4] In 1972 he met the dance student, Vivana Corvalán —daughter of the general secretary of the PC, Luis Corvalán—, with whom he formed a relationship until the beginning of 1980.
He is the father of the actress Adela Secall Corvalán, who was born in 1979, while he was in his political exile in Moscow, after the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
The actor maintained a sentimental bond in his adolescence with the actress Sonia Viveros, with whom he was reunited after his return to Chile and forged a great friendship.