The Count of Monte Cristo (1953 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Spanish: El Conde de Montecristo) is a 1953 Argentine-Mexican historical adventure film directed by León Klimovsky and starring Jorge Mistral, Elina Colomer and Santiago Gómez Cou.
It is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel "The Count of Monte Cristo".
The Count of Monte Cristo (1942 film)
The Count of Monte Cristo( Spanish: El Conde de Montecristo) is a 1942 Mexican historical adventure film directed by Roberto Gavaldón and Chano Urueta and starring Arturo de Córdova, Mapy Cortés and Anita Blanch.
It is based on Alexandre Dumas's novel" The Count of Monte Cristo".
a story which has been adapted for film many times.
Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez
Pedro Juan Rodríguez Ferrer( January 31, 1933 – December 2, 2000), better known as Pete" El Conde" Rodríguez was a salsa singer born in Barrio Cantera, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
His son, also named Pete Rodriguez, is also a salsa and jazz musician.
Pete" El Conde" Rodríguez was a percussionist who started playing bongos at the age of five.
After working with local groups in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he moved to The Bronx during the 1950s.
While singing and playing the congas in a Bronx bar, he was spotted by legendary bandleader Johnny Pacheco.
His first album was titled" Suavito", which was released in 1963.
Just a year later in 1964, Pacheco and his lawyer Jerry Masucci founded The Fania All- Stars, a combination of the best Latin singers and musicians at that time.
Pete's first album under the Fania label was" Canonazo".
Between 1964 and 1973, Rodriguez and Pacheco recorded seven albums including" La Perfecta Combinacion"( 1970)," Los Compadres"( 1971), and" Tres De Cafe Y Dos De Azucar"( 1973).
In 1974, Rodríguez left the Fania All- Stars and concentrated on a successful solo career.
His solo debut album" El Conde"( 1974) was an award winner.
His 1976 album" Este Negro Si Es Sabroso" was rated ninth in best Salsa records at that time.
That album featured one of his most popular songs," Catalina La O".
During the 1980s, with the Fania All- Stars on the verge of disbanding, Rodriguez reunited with Johnny Pacheco and recorded four more albums between 1983 and 1989.
Their 1987 album" Salsobita" was nominated for a Grammy.
By 1990, he went solo again.
Pete" El Conde" Rodríguez only recorded two albums in the 1990s with one of his hit songs" Esos Tus Ojos Negros" being released in 1993.
By 2000, he was hired by Tito Puente to provide lead vocals for a tribute to the late bolero singer Benny Moré.
However, the album was released posthumously because Puente died on 31 May 2000.
Rodriguez also had a heart ailment, but he refused to undergo bypass surgery as Puente did.
On 2 December 2000, Pete" El Conde" Rodriguez suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 67.
Marisela de Montecristo
Marisela de Montecristo( born 25 August 1992) is a Salvadoran- American model, television presenter, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder who has been crowned Nuestra Belleza Latina 2013 and Miss El Salvador 2018.
After winning Nuestra Belleza Latina 2013, de Montecristo made appearances on several television shows, was a backstage presenter on" Premios Juventud", worked as a model on" Sábado Gigante", and made a cameo appearance in the" Fun" music video by Pitbull.
As Miss El Salvador 2018, she represented El Salvador at Miss Universe 2018 but failed to place in the Top 20.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
León Klimovsky
León Klimovsky (16 October 1906 – 8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.
A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires
, his real passion was always the cinema.
He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show "art movies".
He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929.
After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's "Se abre el abismo", he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Player".
He also worked on adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' "
The Count of Monte Cristo" and Ernesto Sabato's "The Tunnel".
During the 1950s, Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he became a full-time "professional" director.
He directed many spaghetti westerns and "exploitation films", filming in Mexico, Italy, Spain and Egypt.
Horror film fans best remember him for his contributions to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with "La Noche de WalpurgisWalpurgis Night"), the film that is said to have started the Spanish horror film boom of the 1970s.
Klimovsky directed famed Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy in no less than 9 films in the 1970s, while also directing other classic horror films such as "The Strange Love of the VampiresThe Dracula Saga" and "The Vampires' Night Orgy".
Naschy complimented Klimovsky's workmanlike attitude and abundant energy, but he always felt that Klimovsky rushed through many of their projects together, never allowing for sufficient retakes.
León Klimovsky always dreamt of doing great mainstream movies but ended up doing commercial exploitation films, but he had no remorse, as cinema was a vocational mandate for him.
He retired from directing in 1979, at age 73.
In 1995, at age 89, he won the "Honor Award" from the Spanish Film Directors Association.
He died the following year in Madrid from a heart attack.
He was the brother of noted Argentinian mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.

Question: Where did the director of film The Count Of Monte Cristo (1953 Film) die?
Answer: Madrid