Personal life

Larrañaga is the son of actress María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara, brother of Amparo Rivelles

Amparo Rivelles

Amparo Rivelles, is a Spanish actress.In the beginning of her career, she was known as Amparito Rivelles.She has worked in Cinema of Mexico and in telenovelas...

. Father of the actors Amparo Larrañaga, Pedro Larrañaga, Luis Merlo. He is the father in law of Maribel Verdú

Maribel Verdú

Maribel Verdú is a Spanish actress. She is known to English-speaking audiences for playing Luisa in the 2001 film Y tu mamá también and Mercedes in Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth. In Spain she is known for films such as Belle Époque, Tetro, and Huevos de oro.Verdú was born María...

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He was married to writer Ana Diosdado. He became more famous for his personal life, selling exclusives to tabloids, than for his interpretations.

Career

His film debut was when he was 4 years old in Alma de Dios, directed by Ignacio F. Iquino

Ignacio F. Iquino

Ignacio F. Iquino, also credited as John Wood, Steve MacCohy, Prada-Iquino, Steve McCoy, Steve McCohy and Ignacio Iquino, was a Spanish film director...

. His first success was in 1950 with Pequeñeces, directed by Juan de Orduña

Juan de Orduña

Juan de Orduña was a Spanish film director.- Filmography :* Me has hecho perder el juicio * Eusébio, la Pantera Negra * El caserío * El huésped del sevillano...

. He had a major supporting role in The Pride and the Passion

The Pride and the Passion

The Pride and the Passion is a historical film drama starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren made by Stanley Kramer Productions. Set in the Napoleonic era, it is the story of a British officer who has orders to retrieve a huge cannon from Spain and take it to the British forces by ship...

with Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...

, Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

 and Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren, OMRI is an Italian actress.In 1962, Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, along with 21 awards, becoming the first actress to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance...

 and then starred in Ha llegado un ángel and El extraño viaje

El extraño viaje

El extraño viaje is a 1964 Spanish black drama film directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez.Famous film director Jess Franco acts as the brother of the protagonist. The film was a huge flop on its limited release. It was voted seventh best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema...

, among other films.

His most remembered role is in the TV series Farmacia de Guardia (1991–1995) directed by Antonio Mercero

Antonio Mercero

Antonio Mercero is a Spanish director of the series Verano azul and later Farmacia de guardia. He is best known as the director of a 1972 surrealist short horror film titled La cabina, that won an Emmy Award...

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