Francisco Elías wurde am 26 Juni 1890 in Spanien geboren. Er war Autor und Regisseur, bekannt für La vírgen roja (1943), Pax (1933) und Boliche (1933). Er starb am 8 Juni 1977 in Spanien.
A Nationalist supporter - and therefore opposed to Franco; he fled to Mexico in 1938 where he worked until 1954, making 8 feature films there. He returned to Spain to direct Marta (1955), a disaster at the box-office which effectively ended his career as a film director.
