León Klimovsky
Biography
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León Klimovsky (16 October 1906–8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director.
A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies. He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929.
After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's Se abre el abismo he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Player. From this first phase, it can be also highlighted the adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel.
On the 1950s Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he becomes a "professional" director. He went into spaghetti westerns and so-called exploitation films, filming in Mexico, Italy and Egypt. Perhaps he is best remembered for his contribution to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with La noche de Walpurgis. León Klimovsky confessed to have always dreamt of doing great vanguard movies but ended on filming commercial ones, but without remorse, as doing cinema was a vocational mandate for him.
On 1995 he won the "Honor Award" of the Spanish Film Director Association. He died in Madrid of a heart attack. He was brother to the Argentine mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky.
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Acting (12 movies)
The Brother from Space
1988
Maravillas
1981
El robobo de la jojoya
1991
The Most Beautiful Night
1984
The Sea Serpent
1985
Dos mejor que uno
1984
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
1982
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
1979
Amor casi... libre
1976
I Saw Her First
1974
S.O.S., abuelita
1959
Amo tu cama rica
1992
Directing (68 movies)
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
1975
The Dracula Saga
1973
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
1971
Trauma
1978
Her and Fear
1964
The Devil's Possessed
1974
The Night of the Walking Dead
1975
I Hate My Body
1974
The People Who Own the Dark
1976
Un bruto para Patricia
1960
Vengeance of the Zombies
1973
Mean Mother
1974
Reverend's Colt
1970
Desert Warrior
1957
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
1966
Llegaron los franceses
1959
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955
La paz empieza nunca
1960
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
1972
Rattler Kid
1967
Quinto: Fighting Proud
1969
Death Knows No Time
1968
Ama Rosa
1960
Una chica para dos
1966
A Few Dollars for Django
1966
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
1971
Challenge of McKenna
1970
The Vampires' Night Orgy
1973
Death of a Hoodlum
1975
S.O.S., abuelita
1959
School of Seductresses
1962
Horizontes de luz
1962
Escala en Tenerife
1964
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
1970
La casa de las Chivas
1972
The Marihuana Story
1950
The Count of Monte Cristo
1953
La vida color de rosa
1951
Seven Into Hell
1968
Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba
1969
Billy the Kid
1964
A Bullet for Rommel
1969
Torrejón City
1962
Die Easy in Ghentar
1967
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel
1949
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
1977
The Kidnapping
1976
Viaje de novios
1956
Miedo
1956
Three Days in November
1977
3 citas con el destino
1954
La parda Flora
1952
Todos eran culpables
1962
Suburbio
1951
Salto a la gloria
1959
The Shack
1979
El jugador
1947
El pendiente
1951
The Tunnel
1952
El tren expreso
1955
Aquella joven de blanco
1964
La colina de los pequeños diablos
1965
El juramento de Lagardere
1955
El hombre que perdió el tren
1960
La Guitarra de Gardel
1949
El hombre que vino del odio
1972
Un tipo de sangre
1960
Un indiano en Moratilla
1958
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Se abre el abismo | 1945 | Writer |
| Albergue de mujeres | 1946 | Writer |
| Tres millones... y el amor | 1946 | Writer |
| Siete para un secreto | 1947 | Screenplay |
| Rodríguez supernumerario | 1948 | Producer |
| La Guitarra de Gardel | 1949 | Screenplay |
| The Tunnel | 1952 | Writer |
| La parda Flora | 1952 | Writer |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | 1953 | Screenplay |
| El tren expreso | 1955 | Writer |
| Un indiano en Moratilla | 1958 | Writer |
| S.O.S., abuelita | 1959 | Writer |
| Un bruto para Patricia | 1960 | Writer |
| Ama Rosa | 1960 | Writer |
| La paz empieza nunca | 1960 | Writer |
| Horizontes de luz | 1962 | Writer |
| Torrejón City | 1962 | Writer |
| Challenge of McKenna | 1970 | Screenplay |
| A Lady Called Andrew | 1970 | Writer |
| Death of a Hoodlum | 1975 | Producer |