Born in Madrid on April 4, 1940. Begins as comic actor in nightclubs and in the musical crews of Antonio Machín, Manolo Escobar and Tony Leblanc. He takes part in numerous programs of television, specially with a role "El currante" (The hardworker), that would be taken to the cinema years later. Even though in the meantime he had participated in different films: The sailor of the gold fists (R. Gil, 1968), the frontier dwellers touches itself (A. Step 1969), you have made Me lose the judgment (J. of Orduña, 1973), a luxury to his reach (R. Fernandez, 1975), etc., In 1979 almost forms pair with Fernando Esteso in fourteen comedies rolled by Mariano Ozores without interruption and little exigency, but with extraordinary popular success: "Los Bingueros" (1979), "Los energéticos"(1979), "I´ve made Roque III" (1980), "The magical garter belt" (1980), "Los Caraduras" (1981), "What an joyfull divorce!" (1981), "Los liantes" (1981), "Magical Witches" (1981), "Todos al suelo" (1982), "Cristóbal Columbus, discoverer" (1982), "Father are more no two" (1982), "El currante" (1983), "Shake before using it" (1983) and "La Lola takes us to the orchard" (1983), turn where the pair can exercise to pleasing his histrionic attitudes. The filmografía of Barns, or separated of Esteso again, gives a spectacular turn when Luis G. Berlanga includes in the abundant distribution of Moors and Christians (1987) and Carlos Saura rescues him (since or he had made with Lopez Vázquez and Rafaela Aparicio) for assignments of height with Ay, Carmela! (1990), performance that would deserve a Goya of the National Spanish Academy Film and the prize to the best actor of the festival of Montreal this year.