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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (5 May 1924 – 8 September 1978), also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson: His 20 best films. by cafg-0 • Created 8 years ago • Modified 5 years ago. He is considered one of the greatest latinamerican filmakers of all times with a prolific body of work and he needs to be more reknown.
Leopoldo Juan Torre Nilsson[ 1] ( Buenos Aires, 5 de mayo de 1924- Buenos Aires, 8 de septiembre de 1978) fue un realizador, productor y escritor argentino de vasta filmografía. Apodado Babsy, es uno de los directores más importantes y representativos del cine argentino y citado en varias ocasiones como el fundador del cine moderno en su país.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. Director: Los siete locos. After ten years as assistant director to his father 'Leopoldo Torre Rios' he co-directed two films with him. His first personal work was "Graciela (1956)", an adoption from the novel 'Nada' of 'Carmen Laforet' which was made out of reach of the censorship of 'General Perón'.
Born in Buenos Aires on May 15, 1924, director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (nickname "Babsy") was renowned as one of the leading participants in the first wave of New Argentine Cinema.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (5 May 1924 – 8 September 1978), also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1993). There was an acute disjuncture between the critical and commercial success of Torre Nilsson's work after the director's initial vaunted "discovery" at Cannes in 1957.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson - Director. Nationality: Argentinian. Born: Buenos Aires, 5 May 1924, son of filmmaker Leopoldo Torres Rios. Family: Married writer Beatriz Guido.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's international reputation is based on a handful of films made in the late 1950s and at the very beginning of the 1960s, but his career as a director spanned three decades. In addition, through his father, the director Leopoldo Torre Rios, he had direct links with the pioneering days of Argentine cinema.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Buenos Aires, 1924 - 1978) is one of the most important and representative filmmakers of Argentine cinema, with a filmography of 42 titles. In 1974, his film Boquitas was released and won the Special Prize of the Jury and the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Festival.
