Exiled from Spain by the civil war, he rebuilt his life in Mexico after 1940 and quickly entered the local cinema as an actor, appearing in titles such as La Torre de los suplicios (1941) and El gran calavera (1949). Simultaneously, he developed a prolific screen-writing career, contributing scripts to dozens of productions throughout the 1940s and 1950s, including the celebrated El ángel extermin…
