Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 17, 1906
Died
Apr 08, 1996
Place of Birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Credits
90 titles
León Klimovsky
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article León Klimovsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Amo tu cama rica
Tornatto
El robobo de la jojoya
The Brother from Space
Dr. Craig
The Sea Serpent
Dr. Moore
Dos mejor que uno
Librero
The Most Beautiful Night
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
Maravillas
Santos
The Shack
Director
La Barraca
Director
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
Chochoffsky
Trauma
Director
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Director
Three Days in November
Director
The Kidnapping
Director
The People Who Own the Dark
Director
Amor casi... libre
Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
Death of a Hoodlum
Director
The Night of the Walking Dead
Director
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
Director
The Devil's Possessed
Director
Mean Mother
Director
I Saw Her First
Faustino
I Hate My Body
Director
El talón de Aquiles
Director of Photography
The Vampires' Night Orgy
Director
Vengeance of the Zombies
Director
The Dracula Saga
Director
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
Director
La casa de las Chivas
Director
El hombre que vino del odio
Director
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
Director
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
Director
Reverend's Colt
Director
A Lady Called Andrew
Writer
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
Director
Challenge of McKenna
Screenplay
The Legion of No Return
Director
Quinto: Fighting Proud
Director
A Bullet for Rommel
Director
Seven Into Hell
Director
Death Knows No Time
Director
Rattler Kid
Director
Die Easy in Ghentar
Director
A Few Dollars for Django
Director
Una chica para dos
Director
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
Director
La colina de los pequeños diablos
Director
Escala en Tenerife
Director
Billy the Kid
Director