Antonio Margheriti

Directing·Sep 19, 1930· Rome, Italy

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Antonio Margheriti (19 September 1930 – 4 November 2002), also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died in 2002 from a heart attack in Monterosi, Viterbo, near Rome at the age of 72. Margheriti started out in the Italian film industry in 1956 as a screenwriter. He started directing in 1960, his first film being "Spacemen" (aka "Assignment Outer Space"). Margheriti is known for his science fiction, horror, spaghetti western and action movies. He was the director of such cult movies as Cannibal Apocalypse, Castle of Blood, The Virgin of Nuremberg, Assignment Outer Space, Wild Wild Planet, Naked You Die, Mr. Super Invisible, The Last Hunter, Battle of the Worlds and numerous others. Most of his films were directed under the pseudonym of Anthony M. Dawson. He stopped using his real name in the USA early in his career, when he realized the English translation of the name "Antonio Margheriti" was "Anthony Daisies", and he thought it sounded too effeminate. He was the only Italian director who worked directly for American production companies like MGM, United Artists, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, etc. with films like: Yor, the Hunter from the Future, Take a Hard Ride, Killer Fish, etc. Margheriti said his action/adventure films were his favorites, and his least favorite movies were the sword-and-sandal peplum films he made in the early 1960s (such as "Devil of the Desert" and "Giants of Rome"). For years, director Richard Morrissey disputed Margheriti's claim that he had directed "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein" in the early 1970s, saying that Margheriti was mostly just a technical advisor on that film. Morrissey said Margheriti did however direct a very, very brief segment of the movie (mostly the scenes involving the two children roaming around in the lab). Margheriti worked with many well-known genre actors such as Lee Van Cleef, John Saxon, Claude Rains, John Morghen, Klaus Kinski, Barbara Steele, Reb Brown, Donald Pleasence, Yul Brynner, David Warbeck, Luciano Pigozzi, Marvin Hagler, Terence Hill, Fred Williamson, Christopher Lee and many others. Most of his later films were shot in the Philippines (especially his war films). Margheriti also collaborated on the special effects in two Italian cult films which he did not direct, Sergio Leone's "Fistful of Dynamite" (1971) and Aldo Lado's "The Humanoid" (1979). Margheriti retired from filmmaking in 1996 at age 66. He died in 2002 of natural causes. Margheriti's son Edoardo and his daughter Antonella are both also involved in filmmaking. Eli Roth's character in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Bastards took Margheriti as his namesake. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antonio Margheriti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti2013 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Italian Kings Of B2003 · Self	Self
''Cannibal Apocalypse' Redux2002 · Inspector (uncredited)	Inspector (uncredited)
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co2000 · Self	Self
Incontro con Antonio Margheriti1999 · Actor	Actor
Virtual Weapon1997 · Director	Director
Indio 2 - The Revolt1991 · Director	Director
Alien from the Deep1989 · Director	Director
Indio1989 · Director	Director
The Commander1988 · Director	Director
Commando Leopard1985 · Director	Director
Jungle Raiders1985 · Director	Director
Code Name: Wild Geese1984 · Director	Director
The Ark of the Sun God1984 · Director	Director
Yor: The Hunter from the Future1983 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Last Blood1983 · Director	Director
Tiger Joe1982 · Director	Director
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra1982 · Director	Director
Car Crash1981 · Racing Official (uncredited), Director	Racing Official (uncredited), Director
The Last Hunter1980 · Director	Director
Cannibal Apocalypse1980 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Killer Fish1979 · Director	Director
The Squeeze1978 · Director	Director
Death Rage1976 · Director	Director
Take a Hard Ride1975 · Director	Director
The Slight1975 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Whisky and Ghosts1974 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Stranger and the Gunfighter1974 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Manone il ladrone1974 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Mr. Hercules Against Karate1973 · Director	Director
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye1973 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Treasure Island1972 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Novelle galeotte d'amore1972 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
1001 Nights of Pleasure1972 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Web of the Spider1971 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Mr. Superinvisible1970 · Director	Director
And God Said to Cain1970 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Unnaturals1969 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
I Love You1968 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Vengeance1968 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Naked You Die1968 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Dynamite Joe1967 · Director	Director
Snow Devils1967 · Director	Director
War Between the Planets1966 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
War of the Planets1966 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Wild, Wild Planet1966 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Lightning Bolt1966 · Director	Director
Killers Are Challenged1966 · Director	Director