León Klimovsky
León León Klimovsky actually Klimovsky Dulfano ( born October 16, 1906 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, † April 8, 1996 Madrid, Spain) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.
Life and work
Before Leon Klimovsky was active in the film industry, he worked for 15 years as a dentist. During this time (1929 ) he founded Argentina's first film club. At the beginning, he turned mainly short films.
In 1948 Klimovsky presented as a director his first film El Jugador in Argentina finished. From the mid- 1960s, he turned in Spain mainly spaghetti westerns and war films. Later, from the early 1970s, it was then especially horror films, most famously about Bloodlust Zombies with Paul Naschy.
Some films carry tax reasons his name as a director, although they were actually staged by Italian directors.
Klimovsky was married to Inés de Tolosa. He died in Madrid in 1996 of heart failure. His cousin was the Argentine mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky.
Some films were Klimovskys name misspelled (León Klimonsky, Leon Klimovsky, Leon Klimowsky, León Klimowsky ) or a pseudonym used (Henry Mankiewicz ). Enzo G. Castellari His colleague in 1966 he had begun the spaghetti western Django knows no mercy ended, described him though meekly as polite and educated, but untalented and against producers.
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The film marijuana was nominated at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. 1959 Salto a la gloria bested Spanish-language film at the Film Festival San Sebastian. 1995 Klimovsky received an honorary award from the Spanish film director ADIRCAE Association.