Francisco Martínez Soria was born on 15 December 1902 in
Tarazona, Zaragoza, died in Madrid on 26 February 1982.
Son of police, in 1908 his family moved to Barcelona,
where he began his studies and, after them, your job as a
dependent and, later, as a commercial. During this time
she combines her work with performances in amateur groups of the
district of Gracia.
Married October 24, 1929, with Consuelo Ramos
Sanchez with whom he had four children: Natividad, Francisco, Consuelo
and Eugenia Martínez-Soria Ramos.
In 1934 he collaborated as an extra in the comedy black and white
Serene... and storm from director Ignacio F. Iquino, with whom
would work, as an actor, in eleven other films.
During the Spanish Civil War stops his work and focuses on
the theatre as a professional actor. In 1938 he debuted at the Teatro
Fontalba with the company of Rafael López Somoza with the work The
hell, Antonio's Step.
His first role of film as a main actor will be in 1938, in a
medium-length comedy produced by the union, the anarchist CNT
titled Package, the photographer number one public. Continues
participating as a supporting actor in many films until 1944,
in return full time to the theatre as an actor and entrepreneur.
He founded his own company in 1940 and settled in the