León Klimovsky
Directing · Born Oct 17, 1906 · Died Apr 8, 1996 (89) · Buenos Aires, Argentina
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
Directed
The Shack
19795.9
Trauma
19786.0
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
19774.5
Three Days in November
19776.0
The Kidnapping
19764.7
The People Who Own the Dark
19764.9
Death of a Hoodlum
19755.5
The Night of the Walking Dead
19755.1
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
19756.0
The Devil's Possessed
19747.1
Mean Mother
19743.4
I Hate My Body
19744.7
The Vampires' Night Orgy
19734.4
Vengeance of the Zombies
19734.4
The Dracula Saga
19736.2
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
19725.8
La casa de las Chivas
19726.5
El hombre que vino del odio
19727.0
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
19716.0
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
19715.4
Reverend's Colt
19705.4
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
197010.0
Challenge of McKenna
19705.2
The Legion of No Return
19694.8
Quinto: Fighting Proud
19695.8
A Bullet for Rommel
19696.0
Seven Into Hell
19684.8
Death Knows No Time
19684.7
Rattler Kid
19675.5
Die Easy in Ghentar
19678.0
A Few Dollars for Django
19665.5
Una chica para dos
19668.0
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
19666.0
La colina de los pequeños diablos
19659.0
Escala en Tenerife
19647.5
Billy the Kid
19645.5
Her and Fear
19647.0
Aquella joven de blanco
19644.8
School of Seductresses
19628.0
Torrejón City
19625.0
Horizontes de luz
19627.0
Todos eran culpables
19629.0
La paz empieza nunca
19606.5
Un tipo de sangre
19609.5
Ama Rosa
19607.5
El hombre que perdió el tren
19606.2
Un bruto para Patricia
19609.0
Leap to Fame
19599.0
S.O.S., abuelita
19599.0
Llegaron los franceses
19599.0
Un indiano en Moratilla
19585.7
Desert Warrior
19577.0
Viaje de novios
19565.0
Miedo
19567.0
El juramento de Lagardere
19557.0
The Miller's Saucy Wife
19557.0
El tren expreso
19558.0
3 citas con el destino
19546.2
The Count of Monte Cristo
19535.3
La parda Flora
195210.0
The Tunnel
19526.8
El pendiente
19517.0
La vida color de rosa
1951
Suburbio
19516.5
The Marihuana Story
19506.8
La Guitarra de Gardel
19498.0
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel
194910.0
El jugador
19477.7
