Francisco Bernal was born in Jumilla, Murcia, Spain, as Francisco Bernal Jiménez. He was a theater actor, intervening in famous zarzuela seasons in companies such as José Moncayo and Salvador Videgain in 1926, and 1928. In the thirties he went to the cinema and was later known for works like El niño que robo un millon (1960) ), Marcelino bread and wine (1955) and María de la O (1959). He died in 1963.