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- Birth nameFrancisco Elías Riquelme
- Francisco Elías was born on June 26, 1890 in Huelva, Andalucía, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for La vírgen roja (1943), Pax (1933) and Boliche (1933). He died on June 8, 1977 in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.
- 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.
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