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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Films (69)
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Italian Kings Of B
2003 · Self
'Cannibal Apocalypse' Redux
2002 · Inspector (uncredited)
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
2000 · Self
Incontro con Antonio Margheriti
1999
Virtual Weapon
1997 · Director
Indio 2 - The Revolt
1991 · Director
The Black Cobra 3
1990 · Special Effects
Alien from the Deep
1989 · Director
Indio
1989 · Director
The Commander
1988 · Director
Commando Leopard
1985 · Director
Jungle Raiders
1985 · Director
Code Name: Wild Geese
1984 · Director
The Ark of the Sun God
1984 · Director
Yor: The Hunter from the Future
1983 · Director, Screenplay, Special Effects
The Last Blood
1983 · Director
Tiger Joe
1982 · Director
The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
1982 · Director
Car Crash
1981 · Racing Official (uncredited), Director, Special Effects
The Last Hunter
1980 · Director
Cannibal Apocalypse
1980 · Director, Screenplay
Killer Fish
1979 · Director
The Humanoid
1979 · Special Effects Supervisor
The Squeeze
1978 · Director
Death Rage
1976 · Director
Take a Hard Ride
1975 · Director
The Slight
1975 · Screenplay
Blood for Dracula
1974 · Assistant Director
Whisky and Ghosts
1974 · Director, Writer
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
1974 · Screenplay, Director
Manone il ladrone
1974 · Director, Screenplay
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973 · Special Effects Makeup Artist, Makeup Effects, Second Unit Director
Mr. Hercules Against Karate
1973 · Director, Adaptation
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
1973 · Story, Director, Screenplay
Treasure Island
1972 · Director, Screenplay
Novelle galeotte d'amore
1972 · Screenplay, Director
1001 Nights of Pleasure
1972 · Director, Screenplay
Duck, You Sucker
1971 · Special Effects
Web of the Spider
1971 · Director, Screenplay
Mr. Superinvisible
1970 · Director
And God Said to Cain
1970 · Screenplay, Director
The Unnaturals
1969 · Writer, Director
I Love You
1968 · Screenplay, Story, Director
Vengeance
1968 · Director, Screenplay
Naked You Die
1968 · Director, Screenplay
Mission Stardust
1967 · Special Effects
Dynamite Joe
1967 · Director
Snow Devils
1967 · Director, Associate Producer
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
1966 · Special Effects
War Between the Planets
1966 · Producer, Director
War of the Planets
1966 · Director, Producer
The Wild, Wild Planet
1966 · Director, Producer
Lightning Bolt
1966 · Director
Killers Are Challenged
1966 · Director
The Long Hair of Death
1964 · Director, Screenplay
Giants of Rome
1964 · Director
Hercules, Prisoner of Evil
1964 · Director
The Slave Merchants
1964 · Director
Castle of Blood
1964 · Director
Mondo Inferno
1964 · Director
Horror Castle
1963 · Director, Screenplay
The Fall of Rome
1963 · Director, Story, Screenplay
War Gods of Babylon
1962 · Second Unit Director
The Golden Arrow
1962 · Director
Battle of the Worlds
1961 · Director
Assignment: Outer Space
1960 · Director
Legs of Gold
1958 · Screenplay, Story, Co-Director
A Sailor's Promises
1958 · Screenplay, Story, Co-Director
