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León Klimovsky
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 wa…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1992
Amo tu cama rica
Movie Tornatto
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1991
El robobo de la jojoya
Movie
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1988
The Brother from Space
Movie Dr. Craig
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1985
The Sea Serpent
Movie Dr. Moore
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1984
Dos mejor que uno
Movie Librero
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1984
The Most Beautiful Night
Movie
- 1982
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1981
Maravillas
Movie Santos
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1979
The Shack
Movie Director
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1979
La Barraca
TV show Director
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1979
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
Movie Chochoffsky
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1978
Trauma
Movie Director
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1977
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Movie Director
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1977
Three Days in November
Movie Director
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1976
The Kidnapping
Movie Director
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1976
The People Who Own the Dark
Movie Director
More credits
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1976
Amor casi... libre
Movie Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
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1975
Death of a Hoodlum
Movie Director
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1975
The Night of the Walking Dead
Movie Director
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1975
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
Movie Director
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1974
The Devil's Possessed
Movie Director
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1974
Mean Mother
Movie Director
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1974
I Saw Her First
Movie Faustino
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1974
I Hate My Body
Movie Director
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1974
El talón de Aquiles
Movie Director of Photography
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1973
The Vampires' Night Orgy
Movie Director
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1973
Vengeance of the Zombies
Movie Director
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1973
The Dracula Saga
Movie Director
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1972
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
Movie Director
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1972
La casa de las Chivas
Movie Director
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1972
El hombre que vino del odio
Movie Director
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1971
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
Movie Director
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1971
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
Movie Director
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1970
Reverend's Colt
Movie Director
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1970
A Lady Called Andrew
Movie Writer
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1970
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
Movie Director
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1970
Challenge of McKenna
Movie Screenplay
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1969
The Legion of No Return
Movie Director
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1969
Quinto: Fighting Proud
Movie Director
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1969
A Bullet for Rommel
Movie Director
