He was a Spanish actor; his father was from Puerto Rico and his mother from Catalonia. His debut in theater was in 1943 and in cinema in 1944. At the end of the fifties he lived in South America. He committed suicide with a gunshot while living in Mexico City, Mexico.
Mistral was a great admirer of Pedro Armendriz, who too committed suicide by gunshot after finding out he had cancer. Mistral himself had been diagnosed with duodenum cancer.
