León Klimovsky
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-10-17
Day of Death
1996-04-08 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1992)
Amo tu cama rica
as Tornatto
(1991)
(1988)
(1985)
The Sea Serpent
as Dr. Moore
(1984)
(1984)
Dos mejor que uno
as Librero
(1982)
(1981)
Maravillas
as Santos
(1979)
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
as Chochoffsky
(1976)
Amor casi... libre
as Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
(1974)
I Saw Her First
as Faustino
(1959)
Crew
(1979)
The Shack
Director
(1978)
Trauma
Director
(1977)
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Director
(1977)
Three Days in November
Director
(1976)
The People Who Own the Dark
Director
(1976)
The Kidnapping
Director
(1975)
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
Director
(1975)
The Night of the Walking Dead
Director
(1975)
Death of a Hoodlum
Director, Producer
(1974)
The Devil's Possessed
Director
(1974)
I Hate My Body
Director, Story
(1974)
Mean Mother
Director
(1974)
El talón de Aquiles
Director of Photography
(1973)
The Dracula Saga
Director
(1973)
Vengeance of the Zombies
Director
(1973)
The Vampires' Night Orgy
Director
(1972)
Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf
Director
(1972)
La casa de las Chivas
Director
(1972)
El hombre que vino del odio
Director
(1971)
(1971)
(1970)
Reverend's Colt
Director
(1970)
Challenge of McKenna
Screenplay, Director
(1970)
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
Director
(1970)
A Lady Called Andrew
Writer
(1969)
Quinto: Fighting Proud
Director
(1969)
Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba
Director
(1969)
A Bullet for Rommel
Director
(1968)
Death Knows No Time
Director
(1968)
Una chica para dos
Director
(1968)
Seven Into Hell
Director
(1967)
Rattler Kid
Director
(1967)
Die Easy in Ghentar
Director
(1966)
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
Director
(1966)
A Few Dollars for Django
Director
(1965)
(1964)
Her and Fear
Director
(1964)
Escala en Tenerife
Director
(1964)
Billy the Kid
Director
(1964)
Aquella joven de blanco
Director
(1962)
School of Seductresses
Director
(1962)
Horizontes de luz
Director
(1962)
Torrejón City
Director, Writer
(1962)
Todos eran culpables
Director, Dialogue
(1960)
Un bruto para Patricia
Director, Writer
(1960)
La paz empieza nunca
Director, Writer
(1960)
Ama Rosa
Director, Writer
(1960)
El hombre que perdió el tren
Director
(1960)
Un tipo de sangre
Director
(1959)
Llegaron los franceses
Director
(1959)
S.O.S., abuelita
Director, Writer
(1959)
Salto a la gloria
Director
(1958)
Un indiano en Moratilla
Director, Writer
(1957)
Desert Warrior
Director
(1956)
Viaje de novios
Director
(1956)
Miedo
Director
(1955)
The Miller's Saucy Wife
Director
(1955)
El tren expreso
Writer, Director
(1955)
El juramento de Lagardere
Director
(1954)
3 citas con el destino
Director
(1954)
Comedians
Editorial Consultant
(1953)
El conde de Montecristo
Director, Screenplay
(1952)
La parda Flora
Director, Writer
(1952)
The Tunnel
Writer, Director
(1951)
La vida color de rosa
Production Director, Director
(1951)
Suburbio
Director
(1951)
El pendiente
Director
(1950)
The Marihuana Story
Director
(1949)
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel
Director
(1949)
La Guitarra de Gardel
Screenplay, Director
(1948)
Rodríguez supernumerario
Producer
(1947)
Siete para un secreto
Screenplay
(1947)
El jugador
Director
(1947)
The Mysterious Uncle Silas
Writers' Assistant
(1946)
(1946)
Albergue de mujeres
Writer
(1945)
Una mujer sin importancia
Script Supervisor
(1945)
Se abre el abismo
Assistant Director, Writer