León Klimovsky
Known for: Directing
Born: October 17, 1906
Died: April 8, 1996
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
89 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
6.7
Amo tu cama rica
1992
4.4
El robobo de la jojoya
1991
4.0
The Brother from Space
1988
5.3
The Sea Serpent
1985
6.3
Dos mejor que uno
1984
4.3
The Most Beautiful Night
1984
6.6
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
1982
5.2
Maravillas
1981
6.5
The Shack
1979
5.9
La Barraca
1979
5.5
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
1979
6.0
Trauma
1978
4.5
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
1977
6.0
Three Days in November
1977
4.7
The Kidnapping
1976
4.9
The People Who Own the Dark
1976
7.0
Amor casi... libre
1976
5.5
Death of a Hoodlum
1975
5.1
The Night of the Walking Dead
1975
6.1
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
1975
6.8
The Devil's Possessed
1974
3.4
Mean Mother
1974
7.0
I Saw Her First
1974
4.7
I Hate My Body
1974
7.0
El talón de Aquiles
1974
4.4
The Vampires' Night Orgy
1973
4.4
Vengeance of the Zombies
1973
6.5
The Dracula Saga
1973
5.8
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
1972
6.5
La casa de las Chivas
1972
7.0
El hombre que vino del odio
1972
6.0
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
1971
5.4
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
1971
5.4
Reverend's Colt
1970
7.0
A Lady Called Andrew
1970
10.0
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
1970
5.2
Challenge of McKenna
1970
4.8
The Legion of No Return
1969
5.8
Quinto: Fighting Proud
1969
6.0
A Bullet for Rommel
1969
4.8
Seven Into Hell
1968
4.7
Death Knows No Time
1968
5.5
Rattler Kid
1967
8.0
Die Easy in Ghentar
1967
5.5
A Few Dollars for Django
1966
8.0
Una chica para dos
1966
6.0
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
1966
9.0
La colina de los pequeños diablos
1965
7.5
Escala en Tenerife
1964
5.5
Billy the Kid
1964
7.0
Her and Fear
1964
4.8
Aquella joven de blanco
1964
8.0
School of Seductresses
1962
5.0
Torrejón City
1962
7.0
Horizontes de luz
1962
9.0
Todos eran culpables
1962
6.5
La paz empieza nunca
1960
9.5
Un tipo de sangre
1960
7.5
Ama Rosa
1960
6.2
El hombre que perdió el tren
1960
9.0
Un bruto para Patricia
1960
9.0
Leap to Fame
1959
9.0
S.O.S., abuelita
1959
9.0
Llegaron los franceses
1959
5.7
Un indiano en Moratilla
1958
7.0
Desert Warrior
1957
5.0
Viaje de novios
1956
7.0
Miedo
1956
7.0
El juramento de Lagardere
1955
7.0
The Miller's Saucy Wife
1955
8.0
El tren expreso
1955
5.9
Comedians
1954
6.2
3 citas con el destino
1954
5.3
The Count of Monte Cristo
1953
10.0
La parda Flora
1952
6.8
The Tunnel
1952
7.0
El pendiente
1951
NR
La vida color de rosa
1951
6.5
Suburbio
1951
6.8
The Marihuana Story
1950
8.0
La Guitarra de Gardel
194910.0
Se llamaba Carlos Gardel
1949
7.0
Rodríguez supernumerario
1948
8.0
Siete para un secreto
1947
7.7
El jugador
1947
7.0
The Mysterious Uncle Silas
1947
9.0
Tres millones... y el amor
1946
9.0
Albergue de mujeres
1946
7.0
Se abre el abismo
1945
8.0
Una mujer sin importancia
1945