Antonio Margheriti

Antonio Margheriti

  • Birthday: 1930-09-19
  • Deathday: 2002-11-04
  • Place of birth: Rome, Italy
  • Also know as: Anthony M. Dawson

Biography

​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.

Filmography

'Cannibal Apocalypse' Redux

2002

As Inspector (uncredited)

Italian Kings Of B

2003

As Self

Car Crash

1981

As Racing Official (uncredited)

Production

Blood for Dracula

1974

As Makeup Effects Designer

Flesh for Frankenstein

1973

As Special Effects Makeup Artist

Duck, You Sucker

1971

As Special Effects

Flesh for Frankenstein

1973

As Makeup Effects

Car Crash

1981

As Special Effects

The Black Cobra 3

1990

As Special Effects

Yor, the Hunter from the Future

1983

As Special Effects

Mission Stardust

1967

As Special Effects

Battle of the Worlds

1961

As Director

The Fall of Rome

1963

As Director

Alien from the Deep

1989

As Director

Snow Devils

1967

As Director

War Between the Planets

1966

As Director

Castle of Blood

1964

As Director

Assignment: Outer Space

1960

As Director

The Wild, Wild Planet

1966

As Director

Killer Fish

1979

As Director

Take a Hard Ride

1975

As Director

Virtual Weapon

1997

As Director

Web of the Spider

1971

As Director

The Long Hair of Death

1964

As Director

Horror Castle

1963

As Director

Lightning Bolt

1966

As Director

The Slave Merchants

1964

As Director

The Last Hunter

1980

As Director

And God Said to Cain

1970

As Director

Vengeance

1968

As Director

Jungle Raiders

1985

As Director

War of the Planets

1966

As Director

1001 Nights of Pleasure

1972

As Director

The Ark of the Sun God

1984

As Director

Whisky and Ghosts

1974

As Director

The Golden Arrow

1962

As Director

The Last Blood

1983

As Director

Tiger Joe

1982

As Director

Commando Leopard

1985

As Director

Killers Are Challenged

1966

As Director

Giants of Rome

1964

As Director

Death Rage

1976

As Director

The Commander

1988

As Director

Dynamite Joe

1967

As Director

Code Name: Wild Geese

1984

As Director

Mr. Superinvisible

1970

As Director

The Unnaturals

1969

As Director

The Squeeze

1978

As Director

I Love You

1968

As Director

Indio 2 - The Revolt

1991

As Director

Car Crash

1981

As Director

Indio

1989

As Director

Mondo Inferno

1964

As Director

Blood for Dracula

1974

As Assistant Director

Legs of Gold

1958

As Co-Director

Flesh for Frankenstein

1973

As Second Unit Director

Novelle galeotte d'amore

1972

As Director

Manone il ladrone

1974

As Director

A Sailor's Promises

1958

As Co-Director

War Gods of Babylon

1962

As Second Unit Director

War Between the Planets

1966

As Producer

War of the Planets

1966

As Producer

The Wild, Wild Planet

1966

As Producer

Snow Devils

1967

As Associate Producer

The Humanoid

1979

As Special Effects Supervisor

And God Said to Cain

1970

As Screenplay

Vengeance

1968

As Screenplay

Legs of Gold

1958

As Screenplay

The Unnaturals

1969

As Writer

Horror Castle

1963

As Screenplay

Lo sgarbo

1975

As Screenplay

The Long Hair of Death

1964

As Screenplay

I Love You

1968

As Screenplay

I Love You

1968

As Story

1001 Nights of Pleasure

1972

As Screenplay

Mr. Hercules Against Karate

1973

As Adaptation

Whisky and Ghosts

1974

As Writer

Novelle galeotte d'amore

1972

As Screenplay

Legs of Gold

1958

As Story

Manone il ladrone

1974

As Screenplay

A Sailor's Promises

1958

As Story

A Sailor's Promises

1958

As Screenplay

Web of the Spider

1971

As Screenplay

The Fall of Rome

1963

As Story

The Fall of Rome

1963

As Screenplay

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