León Klimovsky
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 17, 1906
- Died
- April 8, 1996 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
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
The Shack
TV · Director · 9 eps
Trauma
Movie · Director
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
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Three Days in November
Movie · Director
The People Who Own the Dark
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The Kidnapping
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A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
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The Night of the Walking Dead
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Death of a Hoodlum
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The Devil's Possessed
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I Hate My Body
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Mean Mother
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The Dracula Saga
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Vengeance of the Zombies
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The Vampires' Night Orgy
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Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
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La casa de las Chivas
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El hombre que vino del odio
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The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
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Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
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Reverend's Colt
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Challenge of McKenna
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Los hombres las prefieren viudas
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Quinto: Fighting Proud
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The Legion of No Return
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A Bullet for Rommel
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Death Knows No Time
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Seven Into Hell
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Rattler Kid
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Die Easy in Ghentar
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Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
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Una chica para dos
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A Few Dollars for Django
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La colina de los pequeños diablos
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Her and Fear
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Escala en Tenerife
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Billy the Kid
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Aquella joven de blanco
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School of Seductresses
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Horizontes de luz
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Torrejón City
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Todos eran culpables
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Un bruto para Patricia
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La paz empieza nunca
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Ama Rosa
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El hombre que perdió el tren
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Un tipo de sangre
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Llegaron los franceses
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S.O.S., abuelita
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Leap to Fame
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Un indiano en Moratilla
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Desert Warrior
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Viaje de novios
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Miedo
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The Miller's Saucy Wife
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El tren expreso
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El juramento de Lagardere
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3 citas con el destino
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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La parda Flora
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The Tunnel
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La vida color de rosa
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Suburbio
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El pendiente
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The Marihuana Story
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Se llamaba Carlos Gardel
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La Guitarra de Gardel
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El jugador
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Una mujer sin importancia
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Se abre el abismo
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