León Klimovsky

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-10-17 (90 years old)

Deathday

1996-04-08

Place of Birth

Buenos Aires, Argentina

León Klimovsky

Biography

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 ...

Acting

Production

1973

The Dracula Saga

as Director

1978

Trauma

as Director

1964

Her and Fear

as Director

1974

1974

I Hate My Body

as Director

1974

1960

1974

Mean Mother

as Director

1970

Reverend's Colt

as Director

1957

Desert Warrior

as Director

1959

1960

1967

Rattler Kid

as Director

1970

1969

1968

1960

Ama Rosa

as Director

1968

1970

1975

1959

S.O.S., abuelita

as Director

1962

1962

1964

1972

1950

1951

1951

La vida color de rosa

as Production Director

1968

Seven Into Hell

as Director

1964

Billy the Kid

as Director

1969

1946

1947

1962

Torrejón City

as Director

1967

1953

1949

1976

The Kidnapping

as Director

1956

Viaje de novios

as Director

1956

Miedo

as Director

1977

1954

1952

La parda Flora

as Director

1952

1962

1951

Suburbio

as Director

1959

1979

The Shack

as Director

1947

El jugador

as Director

1951

El pendiente

as Director

1952

The Tunnel

as Director

1952

The Tunnel

as Writer

1945

Una mujer sin importancia

as Script Supervisor

1955

El tren expreso

as Director

1955

1945

1945

Se abre el abismo

as Assistant Director

1947

The Mysterious Uncle Silas

as Writers' Assistant

1954

Comedians

as Editorial Consultant

1949

1974

El talón de Aquiles

as Director of Photography

1962

1959

1962

1960

1960

Ama Rosa

as Writer

1975

1962

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