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. Description above from the Wikipedia article León Klimovsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

El robobo de la jojoya

December 20, 1991

The Sea Serpent

April 26, 1985

Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor

The Brother from Space

January 1, 1988

The Most Beautiful Night

September 24, 1984

El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)

Acting roles

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
1992	Amo tu cama rica	Tornatto
1991	El robobo de la jojoya
1988	The Brother from Space
1985	The Sea Serpent	Dr. Moore
1984	The Most Beautiful Night
1984	Dos mejor que uno	Librero
1982	Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
1981	Maravillas	Santos
1979	El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)	Chochoffsky
1976	Amor casi... libre	Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
1974	I Saw Her First	Faustino
1959	S.O.S., abuelita

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
1979	La Barraca	Director
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	Death of a Hoodlum	Director
1975	The Night of the Walking Dead	Director
1974	The Devil's Possessed	Director
1974	I Hate My Body	Director
1974	I Hate My Body	Story
1974	Mean Mother	Director
1974	El talón de Aquiles	Director of Photography
1973	Vengeance of the Zombies	Director
1973	The Vampires' Night Orgy	Director
1973	The Dracula Saga	Director
1972	Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf	Director
1972	La casa de las Chivas	Director
1972	El hombre que vino del odio	Director
1971	The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman	Director
1971	Raise Your Hands, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest	Director
1970	Reverend's Colt	Director
1970	Challenge of McKenna	Screenplay
1970	Challenge of McKenna	Director
1970	A Lady Called Andrew	Writer
1970	Los hombres las prefieren viudas	Director
1969	Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba	Director
1969	A Bullet for Rommel	Director
1969	Quinto: Fighting Proud	Director
1968	Seven Into Hell	Director
1968	Death Knows No Time	Director
1968	Una chica para dos	Director
1967	Rattler Kid	Director
1967	Die Easy in Ghentar	Director
1966	A Few Dollars for Django	Director
1966	Django, a Bullet for You	Director
1965	La colina de los pequeños diablos	Director
1964	Billy the Kid	Director
1964	Aquella joven de blanco	Director
1964	Her and Fear	Director
1964	Escala en Tenerife	Director
1962	Torrejón City	Director
1962	Torrejón City	Writer
1962	Todos eran culpables	Director
1962	Todos eran culpables	Dialogue
1962	School of Seductresses	Director
1962	Horizontes de luz	Director
1960	El hombre que perdió el tren	Director
1960	La paz empieza nunca	Director
1960	La paz empieza nunca	Writer
1960	Ama Rosa	Director
1960	Ama Rosa	Writer
1960	Un bruto para Patricia	Director
1960	Un bruto para Patricia	Writer
1960	Un tipo de sangre	Director
1959	Llegaron los franceses	Director
1959	S.O.S., abuelita	Director
1959	Salto a la gloria	Director
1959	S.O.S., abuelita	Writer
1958	Un indiano en Moratilla	Director
1958	Un indiano en Moratilla	Writer
1957	Desert Warrior	Director
1956	Viaje de novios	Director
1956	Miedo	Director
1955	The Miller's Saucy Wife	Director
1955	El tren expreso	Director
1955	El tren expreso	Writer
1955	El juramento de Lagardere	Director
1954	Comedians	Editorial Consultant
1954	Three Dates with Destiny	Director
1953	El conde de Montecristo	Director
1953	El conde de Montecristo	Screenplay
1952	The Tunnel	Writer
1952	The Tunnel	Director
1952	La parda Flora	Director
1952	La parda Flora	Writer
1951	Suburbio	Director
1951	El pendiente	Director
1951	La vida color de rosa	Director
1951	La vida color de rosa	Production Director
1950	The Marihuana Story	Director
1949	Se llamaba Carlos Gardel	Director
1949	La Guitarra de Gardel	Screenplay
1949	La Guitarra de Gardel	Director
1948	Rodríguez supernumerario	Producer
1947	El jugador	Director
1947	Siete para un secreto	Screenplay
1947	The Mysterious Uncle Silas	Writers' Assistant
1946	Tres millones... y el amor	Writer
1946	Albergue de mujeres	Writer
1945	Se abre el abismo	Writer
1945	Se abre el abismo	Assistant Director
1945	Una mujer sin importancia	Script Supervisor