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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.
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Filmography
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Movies 89
Director 70
Writer 6
TV Shows 1
Producer 1
Amo tu cama rica (1992)
El robobo de la jojoya (1991)
The Brother from Space (1988)
The Sea Serpent (1985)
Dos mejor que uno (1984)
The Most Beautiful Night (1984)
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor (1982)
Maravillas (1981)
The Shack (1979)
La Barraca (1979)
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada) (1979)
Trauma (1978)
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal? (1977)
Three Days in November (1977)
The People Who Own the Dark (1976)
Amor casi... libre (1976)
The Kidnapping (1976)
Death of a Hoodlum (1975)
Strange Love of the Vampires (1975)
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1975)
The Devil's Possessed (1974)
Mean Mother (1974)
I Saw Her First (1974)
I Hate My Body (1974)
El talón de Aquiles (1974)
The Vampires' Night Orgy (1973)
Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
The Dracula Saga (1973)
Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972)
La casa de las Chivas (1972)
El hombre que vino del odio (1972)
Raise Your Hands, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest (1971)
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman (1971)
Reverend's Colt (1970)
A Lady Called Andrew (1970)
Los hombres las prefieren viudas (1970)
Challenge of McKenna (1970)
Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba (1969)
Quinto: Fighting Proud (1969)
A Bullet for Rommel (1969)
Seven Into Hell (1968)
Death Knows No Time (1968)
Una chica para dos (1968)
Rattler Kid (1967)
Die Easy in Ghentar (1967)
A Few Dollars for Django (1966)
Django, a Bullet for You (1966)
La Colina de los Pequeños Diablos (1965)
Escala en Tenerife (1964)
Billy the Kid (1964)
Her and Fear (1964)
Aquella joven de blanco (1964)
School of Seductresses (1962)
Torrejón City (1962)
Horizontes de luz (1962)
Todos eran culpables (1962)
La paz empieza nunca (1960)
Un tipo de sangre (1960)
Ama Rosa (1960)
El hombre que perdió el tren (1960)
Un bruto para Patricia (1960)
Salto a la gloria (1959)
S.O.S., abuelita (1959)
Llegaron los franceses (1959)
Un indiano en Moratilla (1958)
Desert Warrior (1957)
Viaje de novios (1956)
Miedo (1956)
El juramento de Lagardere (1955)
The Miller's Saucy Wife (1955)
El tren expreso (1955)
Comedians (1954)
Three Dates with Destiny (1954)
El conde de Montecristo (1953)
La parda Flora (1952)
The Tunnel (1952)
El pendiente (1951)
La vida color de rosa (1951)
Suburbio (1951)
The Marihuana Story (1950)
La Guitarra de Gardel (1949)
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel (1949)
Rodríguez supernumerario (1948)
Siete para un secreto (1947)
El jugador (1947)
El misterioso tío Silas (1947)
Tres millones... y el amor (1946)
Albergue de mujeres (1946)
Se abre el abismo (1945)
Una mujer sin importancia (1945)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1906-10-16
Deathday1996-04-08 (89 years old)
Birth PlaceBuenos Aires, Argentina
SiblingsGregorio Klimovsky
CitizenshipsArgentina, Spain
Also Known AsHenry Mankiewicz
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