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León Klimovsky
🎂 Oct 17, 1906 — 🕯️ Apr 8, 1996 (89 years)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
León Klimovsky, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is an director. Made their debut in 1959 with S.O.S., abuelita. Their filmography spans 12 movies over 67 years.
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A Few Dollars for Django
1966
Reverend's Colt
1970
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
1971
The Kidnapping
1976
Torrejón City
1962
Trauma
1978
Vengeance of the Zombies
1973
The People Who Own the Dark
1976
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
1975
The Vampires' Night Orgy
1973
Billy the Kid
1964
Mean Mother
1974
The Marihuana Story
1950
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
1966
The Legion of No Return
1969
The Devil's Possessed
1974
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
1972
Seven Into Hell
1968
La casa de las Chivas
1972
A Bullet for Rommel
1969
Suburbio
1951
The Tunnel
1952
El pendiente
1951
The Dracula Saga
1973
El jugador
1947
Aquella joven de blanco
1964
La paz empieza nunca
1960
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
1977
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
1971
Death Knows No Time
1968
The Count of Monte Cristo
1953
Rattler Kid
1967
Death of a Hoodlum
1975
Challenge of McKenna
1970
Quinto: Fighting Proud
1969
I Hate My Body
1974
The Night of the Walking Dead
1975
El hombre que perdió el tren
1960
3 citas con el destino
1954
Her and Fear
1964
Viaje de novios
1956
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León Klimovsky
1906-10-17 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.León Klimovsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.