Abandonó los estudios de Medicina para ingresar a los 18 años en la compañía teatral de Ernesto Vilches. Tras finalizar la Guerra Civil Española, donde llegó a ser teniente de Aviación. Inicia su carrera profesional siendo uno de los galanes favoritos de los directores del régimen franquista. Alcanzó una gran fama en la posguerra por encarnar el prototipo de galán militar y heroico y del franquismo. Debutó en 1935, pero su consagración llegó en 1941 con Raza, de José Luis Sáenz de Heredia. Tras ésta llegó A mí la legión (1942), de Juan de Orduña, con el que protagonizó también La leona de Castilla (1951), junto a Amparo Rivelles. Otras de sus películas son la extraordinaria La caza (1965), de Carlos Saura, Peppermint Frappé (1967), también de Saura, o Los desafíos (1969), dirigida por Víctor Erice. Participó en más de 250 películas.
as Padre de Carmen
as Pablo Jordan
as Padre de Rodrigo
as Anchoa
as Vicario
as Padre
as Fray Diego de Deza
as Clussá's Grandfather
as Nacho
as Alfredo
as Général de Bourmont(12 eps)
as Lábaro
as Pop
as Don Fulgencio
as Padre de Aurelia
as Don Emilio
as Tío Palomo(6 eps)
as D. Ernesto
as Don Amalio
as Conde
as Sr. Bustos
as Aldo
as Rodolfo Ortiz
as Alejandro
as Don Esteban(1 ep)
as Ricardo
as Productor
as Jesús Churruca (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Don Pedro
as Hombre emocionado / Emiliano / Alfredo
as Self
as Doctor Armayor, Director del sanatorio
as Don Carlos
as Dr. Ángel Alcántara
as Don Pedro
as Dr. Kessling
as Héctor Goizueta
as D. Juan Manuel
as Ernest Culp(1 ep)
as Don Alfonso
as Padre de Toni
as Colonel Randolf Quint
as Oscar
as Don Ramón
as Gov. Fuller
as General Muller / Lopez
as Judge Miller
as John Wolley
as André
as Beniamino
as Garfield
as Doctor Márquez
as Police inspector
as Don Nicolás de Valcárcel
as Pedro Astófano
as Germán
as Professor van Kolstrum
as English officer
as Alfredo, el amante
as Don Pedro
as Luis
as Mota
as Pablo
as Paco
as Morrow / Leikman
as Sir Hillary
as Juan de la Cierva
as Baxter
as Losky
as Automobilista Affeminato
as Boss de Mike
as Mortimer Lasky
as Eduardo Montalbán - inspector de policía
as Philip
as Lanceroy
as Don Fernando Mendoza
as Spanish Minister
as Don Luis
as Padre Antonio
as Mayor
as Del Río
as Don Juan de Porres
as Ministro
as Marco
as Coronel Gadea
as Padre Francisco de Borja
as Charles
as Comandante Guzmán
as Casinos
as Sor Giovanni
as Comisario
as Ottaviano
as Major Selim Naruf
as Raimundo Aymat - el Canciller
as Coronel Gonzalo Rivas
as Preside
as Ernesto
as Gran Duque Vladimir de Rusia
as Demetrio
as Alberto Campos
as Ramón
as Don Alvaro
as Fussot
as Paco
as Manrique
as Eduardo Miranda
as Federico
as José de Salamanca
as Miguel
as Víctor
as Teniente Padilla
as Raúl Pituá
as César Jiménez
as Ernesto Azavedo
as Leonardo
as El Grajo
as José Churruca
as Pablo Sarasate
as Teniente Miguel
as Capitán Santiago Balcázar
as Marcelo