He was also a journalist and broadcaster, and wrote four movie scripts. In 1952 Ignacio Aldecoa married Spanish writer and teacher Josefina Rodríguez Álvarez (who changed her name to Josefina Aldecoa after her husband died). They had a daughter, Susana Aldecoa, who is today the Principal of Colegio Estilo. Ignacio Aldecoa died in Madrid in 1969, at age 44.