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  • BIRTH 19/09/1930
  • DEATH 04/11/2002
  • Country Italy
  • MOVIE 1
  • DIRECTOR 22
  • SCRIPT 11
  • PRODUCTION 1

Antonio Margheriti

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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.

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Antonio Margheriti

Movie

Car Crash
Car Crash
Racing Official (uncredited)

Director (22)

Joko invoca Dio... e muori
Joko invoca Dio... e muori
Take a Hard Ride
Take a Hard Ride
La morte negli occhi del gatto
La morte negli occhi del gatto
E Dio disse a Caino…
E Dio disse a Caino…
Apocalypse Domani
Apocalypse Domani
El Kárate, el Colt y el Impostor
El Kárate, el Colt y el Impostor
Il mondo di Yor
Il mondo di Yor
Code Name: Wild Geese
Code Name: Wild Geese
Il pianeta errante
Il pianeta errante
Killer Fish
Killer Fish
Car Crash
Car Crash
L'inafferrabile invincibile Mr. Invisibile
L'inafferrabile invincibile Mr. Invisibile
Fuga dall'arcipelago maledetto
Fuga dall'arcipelago maledetto
Kommando Leopard
Kommando Leopard
Finalmente le mille e una notte
Finalmente le mille e una notte
La vergine di Norimberga
La vergine di Norimberga
I cacciatori del cobra d'oro
I cacciatori del cobra d'oro
Ursus, il terrore dei kirghisi
Ursus, il terrore dei kirghisi
Tornado
Tornado
Nella stretta morsa del ragno
Nella stretta morsa del ragno
Virtual Weapon
Virtual Weapon
Danza macabra
Danza macabra

Script (11)

Joko invoca Dio... e muori
Joko invoca Dio... e muori
Il mondo di Yor
Il mondo di Yor
El Kárate, el Colt y el Impostor
El Kárate, el Colt y el Impostor
E Dio disse a Caino…
E Dio disse a Caino…
Apocalypse Domani
Apocalypse Domani
La morte negli occhi del gatto
La morte negli occhi del gatto
Promesse di marinaio
Promesse di marinaio
Lo sgarbo
Lo sgarbo
Nella stretta morsa del ragno
Nella stretta morsa del ragno
La vergine di Norimberga
La vergine di Norimberga
Finalmente le mille e una notte
Finalmente le mille e una notte

Production

Il pianeta errante
Il pianeta errante