Alberto Granado Alberto Granado Alberto Granado Jiménez (August 8, 1922March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir "Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary", which served as a reference for the 2004 film "The Motorcycle Diaries", in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film. Granado
Companion (Doctor Who) in their youths by juvenile actors on "Doctor Who"; the pre-companionship lives of the Pond-Williams-Song family being particularly well-documented. Companions Jack Harkness and Sarah Jane Smith have also been depicted in their youths on their respective spin-off series. In addition to having been de-aged once in the classic era, John Benton was the first companion whose childhood was chronicled. A recurring theme of the new series is the toll the loss of companions takes on the Doctor. While he would more or less easily deal with his companions' departures in the classic series, the new series shows the Doctor having