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 …

Directed

1. The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971) — Director
2. Vengeance of the Zombies (1973) — Director
3. The Legion of No Return (1969) — Director
4. The People Who Own the Dark (1976) — Director
5. Trauma (1978) — Director
6. The Vampires' Night Orgy (1973) — Director
7. A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975) — Director
8. The Count of Monte Cristo (1953) — Director
9. Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf (1972) — Director
10. A Few Dollars for Django (1966) — Director
11. Reverend's Colt (1970) — Director
12. The Devil's Possessed (1974) — Director
13. The Night of the Walking Dead (1975) — Director
14. I Hate My Body (1974) — Director
15. Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest (1971) — Director
16. The Dracula Saga (1973) — Director
17. Mean Mother (1974) — Director
18. Death of a Hoodlum (1975) — Director
19. El jugador (1947) — Director
20. A Bullet for Rommel (1969) — Director
21. ¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal? (1977) — Director
22. Rattler Kid (1967) — Director
23. Billy the Kid (1964) — Director
24. The Kidnapping (1976) — Director
25. Viaje de novios (1956) — Director
26. 3 citas con el destino (1954) — Director
27. El hombre que perdió el tren (1960) — Director
28. Quinto: Fighting Proud (1969) — Director
29. Challenge of McKenna (1970) — Director
30. Seven Into Hell (1968) — Director
31. El pendiente (1951) — Director
32. The Tunnel (1952) — Director
33. Aquella joven de blanco (1964) — Director
34. La paz empieza nunca (1960) — Director
35. The Marihuana Story (1950) — Director
36. Suburbio (1951) — Director
37. La Barraca (1979) — Director
38. Her and Fear (1964) — Director
39. Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote (1966) — Director
40. Death Knows No Time (1968) — Director

Also appeared in

1. El robobo de la jojoya (1991)
2. Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982)
3. Maravillas (1981) — Santos
4. The Sea Serpent (1985) — Dr. Moore
5. Amo tu cama rica (1992) — Tornatto
6. The Most Beautiful Night (1984)
7. El sexo ataca (1ª jornada) (1979) — Chochoffsky
8. The Brother from Space (1988) — Dr. Craig
9. Dos mejor que uno (1984) — Librero
10. Amor casi... libre (1976) — Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
11. I Saw Her First (1974) — Faustino
12. S.O.S., abuelita (1959)