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Date of Birth
11 June 1922, Limassol, Cyprus

Date of Death
25 July 2011, Athens, Greece (heart and respiratory failure)

Birth Name
Mikhalis Kakogiannis

Mini Biography

Sent to London to read for the Bar, Cacoyannis gravitated instead to the Old Vic stage school. He had a short stage career under the name "Michael Yannis" before deciding he wanted to direct films.

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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 176-180. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959

Founded the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in 2003; an institution for the performing arts.

Was one of four children.

His father, Panayotis, was a lawyer and member of the Cyrpus legislative and executive councils who was knighted by the British in 1936.


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