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Antonio Margheriti

Antonio Margheriti
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Director

Birthday: (72) 1930-09-19 - Deathday: 2002-11-04

Birthplace: Rome, Italy

Also known as: Anthony M. Dawson, Anthony Dawson, Antony Daisies, Raymond Homer, Anthony Matthews ,

Bio:

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Antonio Margheriti (19 September 1930 – 4 November 2002), also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was a prolific Italian filmmaker. He was born in Rome and died in 2002 from a heart attack in Monterosi, Viterbo, near Rome at the age of 72. Margheriti started out in the Italian film industry in 1956 as a screenwriter. He started directing in 1960, his first film being "Spacemen" (aka "Assignment Outer Space"). Margheriti is known for his science fiction, horror, spaghetti western and action movies. He was the director of such cult movies as Cannibal Apocalypse, Castle of Blood, The Virgin of Nuremberg, Assignment Outer Space, Wild Wild Planet, Naked You Die, Mr. Super Invisible, The Last Hunter, Battle of the Worlds and numerous others. Most of his films were directed under the pseudonym of Anthony M. Dawson. He stopped using his real name in the USA early in his career, when he realized the English translation of the name "Antonio Margheriti" was "Anthony Daisies", and he thought it sounded too effeminate. He was the only Italian director who worked directly for American production companies like MGM, United Artists, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, etc. with films like: Yor, the Hunter from the Future, Take a Hard Ride, Killer Fish, etc. Margheriti said his action/adventure films were his favorites, and his least favorite movies were the sword-and-sandal peplum films he made in the early 1960s (such as "Devil of the Desert" and "Giants of Rome"). For years, director Richard Morrissey disputed Margheriti's claim that he had directed "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein" in the early 1970s, saying that Margheriti was mostly just a technical advisor on that film. Morrissey said Margheriti did however direct a very, very brief segment of the movie (mostly the scenes involving the two children roaming around in the lab). Margheriti worked with many well-known genre actors such as Lee Van Cleef, John Saxon, Claude Rains, John Morghen, Klaus Kinski, Barbara Steele, Reb Brown, Donald Pleasence, Yul Brynner, David Warbeck, Luciano Pigozzi, Marvin Hagler, Terence Hill, Fred Williamson, Christopher Lee and many others. Most of his later films were shot in the Philippines (especially his war films). Margheriti also collaborated on the special effects in two Italian cult films which he did not direct, Sergio Leone's "Fistful of Dynamite" (1971) and Aldo Lado's "The Humanoid" (1979). Margheriti retired from filmmaking in 1996 at age 66. He died in 2002 of natural causes. Margheriti's son Edoardo and his daughter Antonella are both also involved in filmmaking. Eli Roth's character in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Bastards took Margheriti as his namesake. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antonio Margheriti,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Other:

Duck, You Sucker
Castle of Blood
Whisky and Ghosts
War Gods of Babylon
Whisky and Ghosts
And God Said to Cain
And God Said to Cain
The Long Hair of Death
The Long Hair of Death
Giants of Rome
The Unnaturals
The Unnaturals
Mr. Hercules Against Karate
Mr. Hercules Against Karate
Commando Leopard
Vengeance
Vengeance
Horror Castle
The Last Blood
Horror Castle
Blood for Dracula
Naked You Die
Naked You Die
Web of the Spider
Flesh for Frankenstein
Flesh for Frankenstein
Indio
Web of the Spider
Flesh for Frankenstein
Cannibal Apocalypse
Lightning Bolt
Cannibal Apocalypse
The Last Hunter
The Ark of the Sun God
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
Death Rage
The Commander
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
Take a Hard Ride
Tiger Joe
Killers Are Challenged
Code Name: Wild Geese
The Squeeze
War Between the Planets
War Between the Planets
Virtual Weapon
Jungle Raiders
Legs of Gold
Mondo Inferno
Legs of Gold
Legs of Gold
War of the Planets
War of the Planets
The Golden Arrow
Battle of the Worlds
Killer Fish
The Slave Merchants
Mission Stardust
The Fall of Rome
Mr. Superinvisible
Car Crash
Car Crash
The Fall of Rome
The Fall of Rome
The Wild, Wild Planet
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
The Wild, Wild Planet
Alien from the Deep
Indio 2 - The Revolt
I Love You
I Love You
I Love You
Assignment: Outer Space
1001 Nights of Pleasure
1001 Nights of Pleasure
Dynamite Joe
The Humanoid
The Black Cobra 3
Snow Devils
Snow Devils
Hercules, Prisoner of Evil
Novelle galeotte d'amore
Novelle galeotte d'amore
Lo sgarbo
Manone il ladrone
Manone il ladrone
A Sailor's Promises
A Sailor's Promises
A Sailor's Promises

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