Directing
León Klimovsky
ES, IT, EN cinema · 88 credits
Born
17 October 1906
Died
8 April 1996 (aged 89)
Birthplace
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Also known as Henry Mankiewicz · León Klimovsky Dulfán
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
Filmography
Amo tu cama rica
as Tornatto
The Brother from Space
as Dr. Craig
The Sea Serpent
as Dr. Moore
Dos mejor que uno
as Librero
Maravillas
as Santos
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
as Chochoffsky
Trauma
Director
Amor casi... libre
as Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
The Kidnapping
Director
Death of a Hoodlum
Director, Producer
I Saw Her First
as Faustino
I Hate My Body
Director, Story
Mean Mother
Director
El talón de Aquiles
Director of Photography
The Dracula Saga
Director
Reverend's Colt
Director
Challenge of McKenna
Screenplay, Director
A Bullet for Rommel
Director
Death Knows No Time
Director
Seven Into Hell
Director
Rattler Kid
Director
Die Easy in Ghentar
Director
Una chica para dos
Director
Her and Fear
Director
Escala en Tenerife
Director
Billy the Kid
Director
Horizontes de luz
Director, Writer
Torrejón City
Director, Writer
Todos eran culpables
Director, Dialogue
Un bruto para Patricia
Director, Writer
La paz empieza nunca
Director, Writer
Ama Rosa
Director, Writer
Un tipo de sangre
Director
S.O.S., abuelita
Actor, Director, Writer
Leap to Fame
Director
Un indiano en Moratilla
Director, Writer
Desert Warrior
Director
Viaje de novios
Director
Miedo
Director
El tren expreso
Director, Writer
Comedians
Editorial Consultant
The Count of Monte Cristo
Director, Screenplay
La parda Flora
Director, Writer
The Tunnel
Writer, Director
La vida color de rosa
Director, Production Director
Suburbio
Director
El pendiente
Director
The Marihuana Story
Director
La Guitarra de Gardel
Screenplay, Director
Siete para un secreto
Screenplay
El jugador
Director
The Mysterious Uncle Silas
Writers' Assistant
Una mujer sin importancia
Script Supervisor
Se abre el abismo
Writer, Assistant Director