Spanish-Argentine Actor. He appeared on stage and in films between 1913 and his death in 1956. When he told his father he wanted to be an actor, his father forced him to join the Navy. Before leaving, at the age of seventeen, he made ​​a small professional debut in 1898 with the theater company Jeronimo Podesta. After the Navy at the age of twenty, he became an actor full-time working at first without pay with Rachel Félix Saenz in the Teatro. He was very successful in the National Theatre in plays like “This is Like”, “Triple Dry” and “San Antonio de los Cobres”. At the age of forty-one, he performed a theatrical tour of his homeland, Galicia, with the Muiño-Alippi. They also had performances in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, San Sebastian and Bilbao. He was honored in his hometown, Laracha, and at the Galician Center of Madrid. At this point in his career, he moved from Spain to Buenos Aires seeking a career in film industry. He made over 20 film appearances in Argentina and the United States. After international tours, he had fans in other Spanish-speaking countries around the world as his films were beginning shown there also. Newspapers of this era document the publicity that he received. In 1939, he was cast in roles in “The Old Doctor”, “Wings of My Country”, and “That’s Life”. The film 1940 “Footprints” gave him another role and then another followed in a more successful film, “The Gaucho Priest”, in 1941. He was cast in the Argentine historical drama and epic “La guerra gaucha” (The Gaucho War), which was the recipient of the 1942 Silver Condor Award. Also, in 1942, he had a role in “The Old Money Box”. He was cast in the another lead role in “Su mejor alumno” (His Best Student) in 1944, for which he received the Silver Condor Award for Best Actor at the 1945 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards. He was the narrator in the 1945 film “Savage Pampas” and had the lead role in the 1946 “Where Words Fail”. In 1948, he was cast in “For Them… Everything” and “The Street Cries”. He had roles in “Unknown Father” and “From Man to Man” in 1949; “School Companions” in 1950; and “Creole Caballito” in 1953. He was cast in the lead role in the 1954 film “The Grandfather” with Mecha Ortiz; in 1955 the films “What Happened to Reynoso” and “Goodbye Problems”; and his last lead role was in 1956 in “Furrows in the Sea”. In the last years of his life, he became very interested in painting. He studied with French Post-impressionist artist Fernando Fader, before exhibiting in the Witcomb Gallery in Buenos Aires. Today, his beautiful paintings can be purchased for thousands of dollars.