Antonio Margheriti
Antonio Margheriti is known for Castle of Blood (1964), Cannibal Apocalypse (1980), The Long Hair of Death (1964).
Biography
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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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Questions about Antonio Margheriti
How many Antonio Margheriti films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 53 films with Antonio Margheriti, from 1958 to 2013.
What is the best rated Antonio Margheriti film?
The best rated Antonio Margheriti film in the catalogue is Castle of Blood (1964), rated 7.1.
What was the first Antonio Margheriti film?
The first Antonio Margheriti film in the catalogue is Castle of Blood, from 1964.
Who has Antonio Margheriti worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Antonio Margheriti shares the most credits with Giorgio Serrallonga (3 films), Luciano Pigozzi (3 films) and Riccardo Pallottini (3 films).
People data: TMDb.
Known for
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5.9 Treasure Island
1972
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4.7 Killer Fish
1979
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5.6 Lightning Bolt
1966
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4.2 Yor: The Hunter from the Future
1983
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5.5 Cannibal Apocalypse
1980
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6.5 I Love You
1968
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5.7 Virtual Weapon
1997
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7.1 Castle of Blood
1964
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5.6 Naked You Die
1968
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6.7 And God Said to Cain
1970
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5.2 War Between the Planets
1966
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5.7 Horror Castle
1963
Trivia
- Also works as
- film director · screenwriter · film producer · television director · television producer · animator · director
- Notable works
- Gamma Quadrilogy
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
54 films — 53 in the catalogue
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6.0 The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
2013 · Self (archive footage)
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6.0 Italian Kings Of B
2003 · Self
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'Cannibal Apocalypse' Redux
2002 · Inspector (uncredited)
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9.0 Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
2000 · Self
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Incontro con Antonio Margheriti
1999
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5.1 Car Crash
1981 · Racing Official (uncredited)
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4.2
Yor: The Hunter from the Future
1983
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4.7
Killer Fish
1979
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5.9 The Squeeze
1978
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3.3 The Slight
1975
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5.5 Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
1973
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5.9
Treasure Island
1972
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6.5
I Love You
1968
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6.3 Vengeance
1968
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4.5 The Wild, Wild Planet
1966
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5.6
Lightning Bolt
1966
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3.7 Hercules, Prisoner of Evil
1964
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4.4 The Slave Merchants
1964
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5.7
Horror Castle
1963
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5.3 The Fall of Rome
1963
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5.8 Indio
1989
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6.2 Commando Leopard
1985
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5.3 Code Name: Wild Geese
1984
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5.5
Cannibal Apocalypse
1980
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5.4 Death Rage
1976
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5.3 Take a Hard Ride
1975
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8.5 Whisky and Ghosts
1974
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5.4 The Stranger and the Gunfighter
1974
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5.6 Mr. Superinvisible
1970
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6.7
And God Said to Cain
1970
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5.3 War of the Planets
1966
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6.3 The Long Hair of Death
1964
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7.1
Castle of Blood
1964
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5.2 The Golden Arrow
1962
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8.0 A Sailor's Promises
1958
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5.6 The Commander
1988
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5.3 The Ark of the Sun God
1984
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6.1 The Unnaturals
1969
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3.7 Snow Devils
1967
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5.2
War Between the Planets
1966
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6.0 Killers Are Challenged
1966
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4.0 Alien from the Deep
1989
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5.8 The Last Blood
1983
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5.8 Tiger Joe
1982
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5.4 The Hunters of the Golden Cobra
1982
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6.8 Mr. Hercules Against Karate
1973
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5.8 Web of the Spider
1971
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5.6
Naked You Die
1968
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4.6 Battle of the Worlds
1961
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5.7 Legs of Gold
1958
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3.8 Dynamite Joe
1967
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5.5 The Last Hunter
1980
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3.9 Assignment: Outer Space
1960
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5.7
Virtual Weapon
1997
People data: TMDb.
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