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León Klimovsky

Directing·Oct 17, 1906·Buenos Aires, Argentina

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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.

Film	Credit
The Shack1979 · Director	Director
Trauma1978 · Director	Director
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?1977 · Director	Director
Three Days in November1977 · Director	Director
The Kidnapping1976 · Director	Director
The People Who Own the Dark1976 · Director	Director
Death of a Hoodlum1975 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Night of the Walking Dead1975 · Director	Director
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse1975 · Director	Director
The Devil's Possessed1974 · Director	Director
Mean Mother1974 · Director	Director
I Hate My Body1974 · Director	Director
The Vampires' Night Orgy1973 · Director	Director
Vengeance of the Zombies1973 · Director	Director
The Dracula Saga1973 · Director	Director
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf1972 · Director	Director
La casa de las Chivas1972 · Director	Director
El hombre que vino del odio1972 · Director	Director
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest1971 · Director	Director
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman1971 · Director	Director
Reverend's Colt1970 · Director	Director
Los hombres las prefieren viudas1970 · Director	Director
Challenge of McKenna1970 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Legion of No Return1969 · Director	Director
Quinto: Fighting Proud1969 · Director	Director
A Bullet for Rommel1969 · Director	Director
Seven Into Hell1968 · Director	Director
Death Knows No Time1968 · Director	Director
Rattler Kid1967 · Director	Director
Die Easy in Ghentar1967 · Director	Director
A Few Dollars for Django1966 · Director	Director
Una chica para dos1966 · Director	Director
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote1966 · Director	Director
La colina de los pequeños diablos1965 · Director	Director
Escala en Tenerife1964 · Director	Director
Billy the Kid1964 · Director	Director
Her and Fear1964 · Director	Director
Aquella joven de blanco1964 · Director	Director
School of Seductresses1962 · Director	Director
Torrejón City1962 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Horizontes de luz1962 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Todos eran culpables1962 · Director	Director
La paz empieza nunca1960 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Un tipo de sangre1960 · Director	Director
Ama Rosa1960 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
El hombre que perdió el tren1960 · Director	Director
Un bruto para Patricia1960 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Leap to Fame1959 · Director	Director
S.O.S., abuelita1959 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
Llegaron los franceses1959 · Director	Director
Un indiano en Moratilla1958 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Desert Warrior1957 · Director	Director
Viaje de novios1956 · Director	Director
Miedo1956 · Director	Director
El juramento de Lagardere1955 · Director	Director
The Miller's Saucy Wife1955 · Director	Director
El tren expreso1955 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
3 citas con el destino1954 · Director	Director
The Count of Monte Cristo1953 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
La parda Flora1952 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Tunnel1952 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
El pendiente1951 · Director	Director
La vida color de rosa1951 · Director	Director
Suburbio1951 · Director	Director
The Marihuana Story1950 · Director	Director
La Guitarra de Gardel1949 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
SSe llamaba Carlos Gardel1949 · Director	Director
El jugador1947 · Director	Director