Born in Langreo, Asturias, Spain, Ibáñez Menta made his first stage appearance at the age of seven at the Teatro La Comedia of Buenos Aires.

He worked in both theatre and film in Argentina until 1964, when he returned to Spain and developed a successful television career.

His health gradually deteriorated, to the point that in 1996 he was implanted with a pacemaker and spent the last few years prostrate in bed.

In 2008, Argentine cinema director Gustavo Leonel Mendoza exhibited a documentary about Ibañez Menta's life, titled Nadie inquietó más ('Nobody disturbed more').

In 2010, Argentine writers Leandro D'Ambrosio and Marcelo Rodríguez aka "Gillespi" published a biography of the actor, El artesano del miedo ['The Craftsman of Fear'].