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Mikis Theodorakis was born in the Greek island of Chios, in 1925. It was the same year that the other great composer of Greece was born in Xanthi, Manos Hatzidakis. He fought during the 2nd World War, and was captured at the city of Tripoli. He was tortured, but when he was set free, he joined the partisan army of Greece named EAM, which means National Liberating Movement. He took part in the civil war in Greece which occurred during 1945-1949, always with the left parties of Greece. He was exiled for the first time in the island of Ikaria in 1947, he was transferred to the island of Makronisos in 1948.
He married Myrto Altinoglou, five years later in 1953, and one year later he moved in Paris in order to continue his studies in music. He composed continuously during the following years using some of the most wonderful poems in order to express the people of Greece. After Lamprakis, a Parliamentary representative was murdered, Theodorakis became a member of the Parliament and the number one enemy of the Right parties of Greece.
The great composer didn't not stop expressing his need and hope for democracy even when military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos took power in Greece in 1967. Some months later the military dictatorship decides that he is not 'welcome' in his own country, he was exiled for one more time. Great personalities express their support to this great composer, like Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Miller etc.
He became internationally famous when he composed the music for the film Zorba the Greek (1964), directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Anthony Quinn. But he was becoming very popular even before that film, when he was composing music for the Jules Dassin film Phaedra (1962) starring Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, and Kakogiannis' Electra (1962) starring Irene Papas, Aleka Katselli. He even composed music for such acclaimed films like Z (1969) by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand and Papas, and Serpico (1973) by Sidney Lumet starring Al Pacino. He came back in 1974, but he stayed only for 6 years. Theodorakis was dissatisfied and went back in Paris and finished his third big work, Canto General, which together with the music from the film Zorba the Greek (1964) and "Axion Esti," a piece of work based on the poems of the Nobel winner poet Odysseas Elitis.
During the '80s, he became for one more time member of the Parliament and issue of controversy in the beginning of the 90s, when he collaborated with the right party's prime minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. In 1992, he composed the Canto Olympico for the Olympic Games of Barcelona.
His opera Ilektra gained very good reviews, in Luxemburg, the Capital City Of Europe in 1995. He composed also another opera of Lysistrati for the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004. Although, he created controversies with his actions during the last decades, 1980-1990, Mikis Theodorakis was one of the greatest composers of Greece, and created the modern music of Greece together with Manos Hadjidakis.- Actress
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Anna Kyriakou is a Greek actress. She studied at the Drama School of the National Theater as well as at the Ecole de théâtre Charles Dullin in Paris (1954-1956), with Jean Vilar as her teacher. She made her first theatrical appearance as a teenager at the REX Theater with the Marika Kotopouli troupe in the play "Carmen". Collaborations ensued with the troupes Manolidou-Pappas, Vasilis Logothetidis, Katerina Andreadi, Manos Katrakis. In 1953-1954 he collaborated with Dimitris Myrat's troupe. Returning from Paris, she collaborated in leading roles with the troupes of Dinos Iliopoulos, Mimis Fotopoulos and Alekos Alexandrakis. In 1959 she starred in the "Piraeus Theatre" of Dimitris Rontiris in the plays "The Mistress of the Inn", "The Marriage of Figaro" and "Electra" to follow a period of more than 20 years of collaboration with the National Theatre, starting with a great success as Calliope in "Temptation" by Grigorios Xenopoulos. At the National Theater she participated in leading roles in 34 plays from 1960 to 1981. In 1982 he collaborated with "Aplo Theatro" of Antonis Antypas - Hristos Politis in the opening act of the play "Entertaining Mr Sloane". Her appearance in the cinema was also notable: O methystakas (1950), Ziteitai pseftis (1961), Bridegroom Urgently Wanted (1971), Safe Sex (1999), To klama vgike ap' ton Paradeiso (2001), Blackmail Boy (2003) etc. She took part in many TV series, from Ekeinos ki ekeinos (1972), I geitonia mas (1972) and Yungermann in the 1970s to Oi treis Harites (1990) in which she played the legendary Aunt Bebeka. She appeared in a guest role in Constantine's and Helen's (1998), playing the role of Aunt Maro, as well as in Epta thanasimes petheres (2004), where she played the evil mother-in-law. She also had a rich repertoire in radio drama. A member of the Union of Greek Actors since 1949. She was married to the well-known modernist architect Margaritis Apostolidis, with whom she had a son, civil engineer Christos Apostolidis.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
The names of Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis have been written with golden letters in the music history of Greece since 1960. He was born in Xanthi on 23 October 1925, in a mid-class family. When he came of age he came in the capital city of Greece of Athens. He succeeded from the beginning when he made the high class of Greece to accept the Rebetiko, a popular kind of music. His love for this great music resulted in two great LP's - 'Lilacs On The Dead Earth', and 'Cruel April Of 45'.
He worked with director Karolos Koun and he wrote excellent music for such plays as 'A Streetcar Named Desire', starring Melina Mercouri and Vasilis Diamantopoulos. From this collaboration a great classic song resulted, named 'Paper Moon-Xartino To Feggaraki'. He also wrote music for the Greek National Theatre.
In the following years Hadjidakis created a personal style which no one can forget. He wrote music for films like Stella (1955), Madalena (1960), Maiden's Cheek (1959), I Aliki sto Naftiko (1961), creating massive successes. The first golden disc was given to Manos and Aliki Vougiouklaki for the song "The Grey Cat (To grizo gati)" from the film "To xylo vgike apo ton Paradeiso".
He gained worldwide popularity with his collaboration with Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin in 1960 for the film Never on Sunday (1960), and he even won an Oscar. He wrote music for other international films like Elia Kazan's America America (1963), Andrew Marton's It Happened in Athens (1962), Dassin's Topkapi (1964), Peter Ustinov's Memed My Hawk (1984).
In 1963 he staged "A Street Of Dreams (Odos Oneiron)", with Minos Argyrakis, which was considered a milestone in Greek Theatre. In the later years, he humorously denied "Never On Sunday's" popularity and tried to produce more sophisticated works with the help of the poet and lyricist Nikos Gatsos. He became one of best Greek composers, and together with Mikis Theodorakis they are the founders of the temporary Greek Music.
During 1966-1972 he lived in the United States where he wrote the "Magnus Eroticus" LP, which was poems of ancients and temporary poets like Sapfo, Odysseas Elytis, Myrtiotissa etc. He also produced instrumental LP's, like the excellent "The smile of Jokonda". Manos was great friend of persons like Seferis, Elytis (2 Nobel winners poets), Sikelianos, Gatsos (poets), Vougiouklaki (actress), Koun (director), Melina Mercouri (actress, politician), with which they did have a love-hate relationship.
He wrote 4 books and he created the Orchestra Of Colours (I Orhistra ton Hromaton), for some years he was the director of the 3rd program of the Greek Radio channel.
Manos Hadjidakis died on June 15 1994, a lovely summer afternoon. He was one of the greatest composers of Greece, and he is surely missed.- Director
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Gregg G. Tallas was born in Athens in 1909 (according to other sources in 1905, Istanbul). In 1928, he moved to America with his family and studied drama at the American Laboratory Theatre with a specialization at stage direction. His teacher was Richard Boleslawski, a pupil of Konstantin Stanislavski, the pioneer of realism and naturalism in theater. Tallas moved to Moscow, and attended Stanislavski's famous Art Theatre. Back in America, he founded his own theater school. He worked as an editor and director, mostly for MGM. In 1953, he directed the sensational The Barefoot Battalion (1953) , in Thessaloniki, Greece, that became one of the first internationally acclaimed Greek films.- Director
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Filippos Phylaktos was a Greek film director from Athens. After graduating from the Film Studies Academy he started as an assistant director to Nikos Tsiforos, Giorgos Tzavellas, Alekos Sakellarios and Dimitris Ioannopoulos. In 1952 he was one of the co-directors of Zaira (1952) and in 1954 he shot Halima (1954) with Petros Giannakos. Fylaktos directed his first personal film in 1955, Condemned Even by Her Own Child (1955). Many more projects followed. Also, Filippos Fylaktos was involved in theater, television and video productions. He passed away in March 2007 at the age of 84.- She studied theatre at Marika Kotopouli's drama school. She worked with Karolos Koun Art Theatre. She played at "Blood Wedding" (Federico García Lorca) and "The glass Menagerie" (Tennessee Williams) in the late forties. She also worked with Mrs Katerina (famous Greek actress at that time) and with Kostas Mousouris's group in the early fifties. In the mid fifties she created a group with two Greek actors, Dimitris Horn and Giorgos Pappas. In the sixties she gave unforgettable performances with her own group. One of these performances was "A streetcar named desire" where she played Blanche du Bois. In 1967 she suffered the onset of cancer. Although she was seriously ill, she continued to appear on stage until 1982 (one year before her death). Her last appearance was as Sarah in a play which is widely known from the movie Children of a Lesser God (1986). At that time she no voice at all, the cancer having deprived her of it.
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- Director
Mimis Fotopoulos was the son of Nikolaos Fotopoulos and Anna Papadopoulos. He was born in Zatouna of Gortynia on April 20, 1913. Zatouna is a small village, 4 km away from Dimitsana, at 1,050 meters altitude. His father died when Mimis was young. The young Fotopoulos preferred to study at the Faculty of Philosophy in Athens, but, in the second year, he left it to study theater at the Drama School of the Royal Theater, which was later renamed the National Theater, as we know it today. He took part in the Greek Resistance and married Margarita Tsala, from whom he had two daughters, Anna and Maria. He participated in various troupes until he made his own troupe. He played in travelling troupes, toured abroad, participated in many Greek films, mainly of the old Greek cinema, wrote plays and books, directed in the theater. He wrote the plays "A Girl at the Window" (1966) and "Pelopidas the Good Citizen" (1976). He published three books: "25 years of theater" (1958), "The river of my life", published by Kastaniotis, 1965, autobiographical, and "El Daba-Homer of the English", published by Modern Times, 1965. Finally, the poetry collections: "Bouloukia" (1940), "Semitonia" (1960), "Sklira trioleta" (1961), "The Death of the days" (1976), "Ballads of love and death" (1984) His wife had been exiled to Gyaros during the junta, when he was left alone with his two daughters. At that time he decided to make paintings with collage of stamps. This was another artistic activity, not so well known by Mimis Fotopoulos. He died on October 29, 1986, of a sudden heart attack.- Writer
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Giorgos Tzavellaswas a Greek film director, screenwriter, and playwright. His filmmaking was particularly influential, with critic Georges Sadoul considering him "one of the three major postwar Greek directors" (along with Michael Cacoyannis and Nikos Koundouros). Tzavellas wrote at least 26 plays, in addition to writing the scripts for all of his films. Among his notable films are Marinos Kontaras (1948), the drama O methystakas (1950), and Antigone (1961), a cinematic adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy. His adaptation of Antigone reimagined it in the language of realist cinema, omitting stylized elements of Greek stageplay such as the chorus, and attempting to convey the same information via setting and dialogue. In 1964 he was a member of the jury at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. His masterpiece, however, is the 1955 film The Counterfeit Coin (1955), a film in four parts, linking the stories of several people through their transactions of a single counterfeit gold coin.- Maria Foka was a Greek actress and Left-wing activist who distinguished herself in roles embodying strong characters. In the 1950s, she stayed away from stage, for almost 8 years, because of her conviction as a spy, in the trial of Nikos Belogiannis. She had been sentenced to life in prison by a vote of 3-2, but it was later commuted to 10 years in prison with deprivation of civil rights. He was president of the Greek Actors Guild (1977). She was married to actor Lykourgos Kallergis. She was one of the most famous grandmothers on Greek television, her roles in the Ekmek pagoto (1991) and Dolce Vita (1995) being the most memorable. Her last television appearance was in Oi theio... sevoumenoi (2000) in 2000.
- Lavrentis Dianellos was a Greek actor. Born in 1911, he started acting on stage in 1938. He debuted in cinema in 1948, and until his death in 1978, he appeared in more than 200 movies, making him the most prolific actor in the history of Greek cinema. A supporting actor, he was often cast as the father, the priest etc.
- Orestis Makris was a Greek actor and tenor. Makris graduated from the Athens Conservatoire and first entered the scene as a tenor in the troupe of Rozalia Nika in 1925. He later joined the Papaioannou troupe, before moving to more comedic roles. Makris excelled in the portrayal of folk characters, especially the stock role of the "drunkard". Makris also participated in about forty movies, mostly as an over-strict father. He is considered one of the most significant modern Greek actors. He was decorated with the Order of the Phoenix. He died on 29 January 1975 in Athens and is buried at the First Cemetery in a family grave.
- Vasilis Logothetidis was a Greek comedian. He is considered one of the most significant modern Greek actors. One year after graduating from high school in Constantinopole, in 1916, he started to participate as an amateur actor in local shows. In 1918, he moved to Athens where, one year later, he joined the Marika Kotopouli theater company, with which he remained until 1946, with a brief pause in 1935. From 1947, he performed with his own theater company. During his very successful career, he starred in more than 110 Greek comedies and in more than 200 international plays, including Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Volpone by Ben Jonson and Knock by Jules Romains. Logothetidis was among the first Greek actors to appear in film, mostly as a protagonist. His most memorable appearances include Oi Germanoi xanarhontai... (1948) & The Counterfeit Coin (1955) In 1957, he toured the United States with successful appearances in eight different cities. Logothetidis died in Athens on 20 February 1960, by heart attack.
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Kostas Andritsos was a Greek film director. He was born in Athens, where he grew up. He studied Decorative and Design arts, while at the same time he studied Theater and Literature at the School of Kostis Velmyras. In 1943 he started working in film, initially as an assistant director to Giorgos Tzavellas in the film Applause (1944). In 1945, alongside Orfeas Karavias and Giorgos Kriadis, he founded the Film Studies Academy, which was the first school for film studies in Greece and its graduates were directors such as Vasilis Georgiadis, Grigoris Grigoriou and Filippos Fylaktos. Andritsos made his directorial debut with the film Zaira (1952) (1952), while in 1962 he got involved in film production, founding alongside Kostas Tzorbatzidis, the production company Foinix Film with notable films such as: Sucker Groom (1962) (1962), 7 Days of Lying (1963) (1963), The Scum (1963) (1963), Dirty City (1965) (1965) and Sharp as a Razor (1966) (1966). Kostas Andritsos was married with Ismini Kokkinou and they had two children, Alexis and Tzela. He was a member of the National Resistance and was an active member of the National Liberation Front during World War II, while later he was a left-wing member of PASOK, with great trade union activity. He was the representative of Greece in several international film festivals and during the period 1983-1989 he was the director of the film department of the Ministry of Press. Andritsos died at the age of 78 on October 10, 1994.- Actor
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Stefanos Stratigos was one of the most famous and beloved actors of Greek theater and cinema. Due to his aspect, he was often cast in roles of "tough" and "ruthless" men, although, according to the critics, his acting skills foretold that he could support more interesting roles on the big screen. He was born in 1923 in Athens and came from a theatrical family. His parents, Vasilis and Amalia, were among the most famous troupers of the interwar period, when performers used to tour the whole country, even the smallest Greek village, setting up a rudimentary stage in a cafe, to perform a play, entertain the people and make a living. The actor's profession was followed by his three younger sisters, Aleka (1926-1989), Rena (1929-2014) and Stella (1931-2005). Stefanos Stratigos was literally born in the theater and from a very young age he was initiated into acting. Unlike his parents and having great theatrical experience since his adolescence, he sought and studied at the Drama School of the then Royal Theater. After graduating in 1944, he appeared in large troupes, such as Vasilis Logothetidis, with whom he played in many plays in theater and cinema, Ellie Lambeti and Dimitris Horn, Dinos Iliopoulos and Vasilis Argyropoulos. He also created his own troupes, as a manager or co-manager with his colleagues, but also with Gely Mavropoulou, with whom they were a couple on stage and in life. After their divorce, he married the actress Mari Pantazi. His theatrical career continued until the mid-1980s, collaborating with great actors such as Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Nikos Xanthopoulos and Thanasis Vengos, who toured together in Greece and abroad. Stefanos Stratigos, in addition to the theater, where he played a large and varied repertoire, from Greek to classical, took part in many films. His first appearance in cinema was in 1948 in Alekos Sakellarios's film Oi Germanoi xanarhontai... (1948), alongside Vasilis Logothetidis. His roles in the films To koritsi tis tavernas (1952), Santa Chikita (1953), The Magic City (1954), A Girl in Black (1956), The Auntie from Chicago (1957), Dellistavrou kai Yios (1957), Murder in Kolonaki (1959), The Wise Guy (1962), The Scum (1963), Papaflessas (1971) and The Man with the Carnation (1980) stand out from his prolific filmography. In the early 60's he also directed, most successfully with the comedy Etairia thavmaton (1962). He retired from acting in the early 1990s. His last credits were his participation in Thanasis Skroubelos' film O Tzonys Keln, kyria mou (1991) and in the in Marios Retsilas's drama series Anatolikos anemos (1992), which was shown in 1992 by ANT1 network. Stefanos Stratigos passed away on April 6, 2006, at the Red Cross Hospital in Athens. According to the medical announcement, his death occurred due to a respiratory infection.- Tsaganeas was born in Braila, Romania. He starred in several movies, his most famous role being the college headmaster in Maiden's Cheek (1959). His first important role was in Oi Germanoi xanarhontai... (1948) with Vasilis Logothetidis. He married, secondly, to Nitsa Tsaganea. He died on his 70th birthday and was buried in the First Cemetery of Athens. His wife and their daughter were later buried alongside him.
- She was born in Egypt and became a member of the Hellenic Actors Union in 1936. From 1951 and for 15 years she was a permanent member of the National Theater with participation in 37 plays. From 1967 until 1972, when she retired, she starred in performances of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. She mainly performed roles of the classical repertoire. She particularly stood out as Labito in Lysistrata, directed by Alexis Solomos in 1957, next to Mary Aroni and also as Clytemnestra in "Iphigenia in Aulis" in 1961. She married in her first marriage the actor Ioakeim Ratopoulos and in her second marriage the great protagonist of the National Theater Thanos Kotsopoulos with whom in the late 50s they had a son.
- Billy Konstantopoulou (1928-2018) was a Greek actress. She graduated from the National Theater Drama School. She participated in several films in the 40s and 50s, most notable as a co-star in O methystakas (1950). She was married to Nikos Dendramis, a legendary stage actor of the early 20th century. Eventually, she abandoned acting and devoted her self to her family. In 2004, she published a detailed biography of her late husband. She passed away in 2018.
- Thodoros Moridis was a Greek actor who made his first appearance in 1924 with the Aimilios Veakis - Christoforos Nezer troupe in the play "For Her Love". With them, he co-starred in Sophocles's "Oedipus Rex" among others. With the troupe of Kyveli, he played in "Madame X" (1927) and the following year in Euripides "Iphigenia in Tauris" with Eleni Halkousi, with whom he would collaborated again later. He was a key member of Vasilis Rotas's "Laiko Theatre" and in 1932 he collaborated for the first time with Marika Kotopouli while in 1936 he began his collaboration with Katerina Andreadi in whose troupe he remained until 1943, performing many important roles in major works of world drama (The Lady of the Camellias, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Hedda Gabler, Pygmalion, The Lady from the Sea, Nora, etc.). In Katerina's troupe he also met and loved Joly Garbi, with whom he was together for 60 years on stage and in life. This was followed by collaborations with the Manolidou - Veakis - Pappa troupe (1943-44) (The Shepherdess's Lover), with the "United Artists" (1945-46) (Julius Caesar, Enemies by Maxim Gorky, Brothers Karamazov, Von Dimitrakis etc.), with the "Thymeli Troupe", alongside Mimis Fotopoulos and Nikos Hatziskos, where he played Polonius in Hamlet (1955), with the "Greek People's Theater" of Manos Katrakis (The Last Temptation of Christ, The Idiot, Queen Amalia), alongside Antigoni Valakou, Mary Aroni (Manto Mavrogenous), and Elsa Vergi. From 1961 to 1983 he joined the power of the National Theatre, performing dozens of important roles in Ancient Greek and international drama (Ajax, Agamemnon, The Trojan Women, Philoctetes, Medea, Rosmersholm, O vasilikos, Demons, The Tempest, The Cherry Orchard, Mary Stuart etc.). Right after, he participated in The Master Builder,Dimitris Horn's last performance. This was followed by Strange Interlude with Alekos Alexandrakis and Nonika Galinea, Oedipus at Colonus with the "Empiric Troupe" of Alexis Minotis, collaborations with Danis Katranidis, Marietta Rialdi and Giorgos Mesalas. In the cinema, he participated in many films from 1948 to the 1970s as well as on television.
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Filopoimin Finos was one of the biggest producers of the Greek cinema during the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s. His father was a farmer, but Finos loved cinema from his childhood, so when he came of age he sold everything that he owned in order to make reality out of his dreams. His last movie was produced in the 70s, and it starred Dionysis Papagiannopoulosin Giannis Dalianidis's film O kyr' Giorgis ekpaidevetai (1977). It was a big flop, and the company that he had created back in the 40s named Finos Film was bankrupted. During the previous 3 decades he produced the biggest successes of the Greek cinema, but he was always under criticism because of the lack of quality in some of them. On the other hand some of his films like Lily of the Harbor (1952), I Aliki sto Naftiko (1961), Madalena (1960), Oi kyries tis avlis (1966) , Stefania (1966), Barrel Piano, Poverty and Carnations (1957), The Auntie from Chicago (1957) and many many others, are considered as classic and perfect portrait of mid-class Greece of the 50s and 60s. He produced many films, and he created major stars out of them, like Aliki Vougiouklaki, Rena Vlahopoulou, Alekos Alexandrakis, Martha Karagianni, Jenny Karezi Dimitris Papamichael, Dinos Iliopoulos, Georgia Vasileiadou and many many more. He even pushed the career of the great Irene Papas, but he never thought of Melina Mercouri as a movie star because of her big mouth, so he missed the opportunity to expand and become an international company, when he refused to co-produce Never on Sunday (1960).
His only attempt to make an international film, was with Aliki Vougiouklaki in 1962 and Rudolph Maté. The film was Aliki My Love (1963) and it was a miserable flop, that cost many million drachmas to Finos. During the last years of his life he failed to gain the respect of the critics and the love and popularity of the Greeks. He died never working on the TV, which he never liked and accepted. But F. Finos has gained immortality...his films are constantly shown in the Greek TV channels, with great rating. The Greek Cinema, although now creating films of quality and high ideals, never regained the popularity that had when he was producing films.- Actor
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Thanos Generalis was born in Athens. He graduated from from the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory. In the first decade of his career, 1940-1950, he was a permanent member of the Lyric Stage, justifying the nickname 'Voice' that he would later be called in the theater and cinema. As a melodrama baritone, he played characteristic operetta roles and was widely recognized by musical theater audiences. When he moved to prose, the Greek stage had found one of its 'masters', the role of the serious and strict in the performances. His acting talent would not keep him away from the theater for long, when he would begin his long and great collaboration with the State Theater of Northern Greece, of which he was also a founding member as well as a key executive for many years, that is from 1961 to 1981. He was even forced to leave his home in Athens and his wife to move to Thessaloniki and thrive as a star of the biggest scene of the city and he did it without ever complaining. It is there that he will become more widely known for his acting prowess, taking part in all the performances of the State Theater, from ancient tragedy and classical repertoire to modern Greek and foreign theater. As a theater actor par excellence, everyone admits that he was devoted on the stage. So much so that when he suffered a serious accident on stage, he did not stop performing, spending the next eight theatrical months in an iron corset without losing a moment's breath. The show had to go on at all costs and Tzeneralis firmly believed that. Diligent and particularly orderly, he always arrived at the theater first and left last, taking care of the make-up and costumes himself. He even had a weakness for the uniform, especially that of the gendarme, having his own wardrobe of police and military uniforms. It was not at all unusual for him to finish the show and then go out into the street dressed as a general, leaving the soldiers to greet him wherever they met him. He lived in Vouliagmeni and had a daughter. Thanos Generalis passed away on March 5, 1989 and was buried in the First Cemetery of Athens in the way he had chosen in life modestly, discreetly and away from the cameras.- Director
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Grigoris Grigoriou was a Greek director. He was the son of the then well-known lawyer Michalis Grigoriou. He studied law and political science at the University of Athens, as well as foreign languages, took lessons in the theater department of the University Club but eventually became a self-taught director. During the German Occupation, he took part in the Battle of Crete, he was eventually captured by the Germans, escaped and then joined and fought through the lines of the EAM (National Liberation Front). From 1942 to 1949 he worked in the Legal Department of AETE (the predecessor of today's Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation). A film director since 1949 and theater since 1951. In 1948 he wrote the script and directed his first film The Red Cliff. His film Bitter Bread (1951) is considered a landmark for Greek cinema as the first neorealist Greek film in which he combined Italian neorealism with Greek reality criticizing the authorities. He stopped his film activity in 1971 with thirty feature films to his credit. Also, Grigoris Grigoriou directed many plays at the radio theater of the state radio, while from 1949 he was a co-founder of the Lykourgos Stavrakos Film School and from 1957 a professor of the Drama School. His presence in television was also intense with his direction in Immortal Love Stories and Kapodistrias as well as in a series of plays on ERT. The television series of the literary work Loxandra was a great success, as was the show Na i Efkairia, which contributed to the emergence of new artists. From 1984 to 1990 he presented and moderated the weekly show In the Area of Greek Cinema. He was the president of the Society of Greek Directors and, apart from the directing awards, he was also honored with an award from the Ministry of Culture. He spoke French and was a permanent resident of Ilioupoli, Athens. With his first wife Maria Papaleonardou, he had a child, the composer Michalis Grigoriou. He then married the actress Inta Hristinaki without having children and finally Eleni Tsimaratou in 1960 with whom he had two children, the musician Lefteris Grigoriou and the diving instructor-director Stelios Grigoriou.- Editor
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Karydis-Fuchs was a Greek-German cinematographer and editor, who mainly worked in Greek cinema, but also in international productions that were shot in Greece. He was also credited as an actor, assistant director and director. His father was Greek and his mother German. He studied cinema in Vienna. At the age of 14, he came to Greece, where he settled permanently. The first company he worked for was Finos Film, where he initially worked as a cameraman and photographer. In the film Those Not Allowed to Love (1951), he was the director of photography, a position he kept at Finos Film for 17 more films, including several box office hits. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was a director of photography for the Anzervos and Damaskinos-Mihailidis film companies. In the latter, he even associated his name with great commercial successes, such as Murder Backstage (1960), with which he won the Best Cinematography award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1960. He has participated in over 100 films.- Director
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Orestis Laskos was a Greek film director, writer, actor and poet. Born in Eleusis, in 1907, from a rich family of landlords. After graduating high school, he moved to Athens to join the Medical School and later the Military Academy but after a while he quit. He started as a actor and singer, but in the early 1930s we was attracted to filmmaking. One of the pioneers of Greek silent cinema, Laskos directed 'Dafnis kai Hloi (1931)', regarded as a groundbreaking film for its time, due to nudity and original photography. Apart from films, he wrote poems, which he enjoyed reciting at the theater. He married twice, and had a son. Died in 1992.- Actress
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Sofia Vempo was a well known singer and actress of Greece before the second world war. During the war against the Italians and the Germans, she became very popular because she sang some wonderful songs that inspired the Greek people and humiliated the dictators of Germany and Italy.
During the Greek military dictatorship 1967-1974, and especially during 1973 she helped and had hidden students in her apartment that were being sought by the police of that period. Her spouse was 'Mimis Traiforos', a well known composer of classic Greek songs.
Sofia was also the star of another movie besides the classic Stella (1955). She was the star of Stournara 288 (1959), where she played a famous singer who was forgotten by her fans and lived as a piano teacher.
She is known as the 'National Singer of Greeece, her songs are performed by many singers like Haris Alexiou. Her most popular song of the World War 2 period was named Paidia Ths Ellados Paidia, which means, Children of Greece, and it was about the military boys of Greece.- Actor
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Lykourgos Kallergis was a Greek actor, director, drama teacher, writer, translator and politician. His father, Stavros Kallergis, was the pioneering socialist leader and organizer of the first Labor Day in Greece. He moved to Athens at the age of 10 and later, finishing high school and his military service, he began studies at the drama school of Karolos Koun's Laiki Skini. He appeared on stage for the first time in 1934 with the same troupe in the leading role of Erofili by Georgios Hortatsis. A founding member and protagonist of the Art Theater (1942-1950), Kallergis offered over 60 years of service to the Greek theater, a period during which he took part in many plays, dramas and comedies. He was also a recognized protagonist in various independent theater troupes and for 18 years a protagonist of the National Theater, of which he was a teacher of the drama school. He participated in productions in Athens, the province and abroad, performing prominent roles in plays of Greek and international drama: ancient tragedy, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Strinberg, Pirandello, Gogol, Gorky, etc. In his theatrical career he met and collaborated with Marika Kotopouli, Katerina Andreadi, Aimilios Veakis, Katina Paxinou, Kyveli, Alexis Minotis and others. After the Metapolitefsi, he became involved in politics and in 1977 he was elected a member of the Communist Party of Greece in the 1st District of Athens. He was a member of the Union of Greek Actors, where for a decade he was General Secretary (1956-1957) and for a short time President. He was also President of the Panhellenic Federation of Spectators and Audiences as well as Vice-President of the Actors Pension Fund. In the international arena, he had taken part in the Conferences for Peace in Frankfurt (1976) and Sofia (1977). He was also a member of the Society of Greek Playwrights, a member of the Society of Greek Directors, an honorary member of the Society of Greek Writers of Piraeus and an honorary member of the Parnassos Philological Association. He was the only Greek actor who had been honored with the "Pirantello Award", while he had also received the "Veaki Award" as well as honors from the Municipality of Athens, many municipalities of the country, cultural associations and institutions. On May 14, 2007, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Department of Theater Studies of the University of Athens. Kallergis passed away in 2011.- Actor
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He was born in Messinia and studied at the National Theater Drama School. He started his career in touring troupes during the German Occupation. He was one of the founding members of the National Theatre of Northern Greece (NTNG), from whose management he was characterized as one of the brightest theatrical personalities of Thessaloniki. He then collaborated with the Greek Folk Theater of Manos Katrakis and other theaters in Athens, while in 1965 he returned to NTNG where he remained until 1984 when he retired. In honor of the actor, an album was published about his work and life, while an honorary evening was organized at the Garden Theater, for his contribution to the formation of the historical face of NTNG.- Writer
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Hristos Giannakopoulos was a Greek playwright, screenwriter and journalist. He was self-taught in theatrical writing and his first appearance as a playwright was in 1929, while until 1939 he collaborated with many writers in comedies, revues and operettas. From 1939 he began to work closely with Alekos Sakellarios in revues and comedies, songs and screenplays: Oi Germanoi xanarhontai... (1948), A Hero in His Slippers (1958), A Young Miss... Aged 39 (1954), Thanasis, the Politician (1954), Ena votsalo sti limni... (1952), Woe to the Young (1961) and others . He himself wrote the comedies 'Oi megaloi kai oi mikroi' and 'Mia tsouknida stis violetes'. He outlined the character of the Greek petty bourgeois with the contradictions, illusions and dead-ends he faced. He stood out for the immediacy of his writing, his sensitivity, his optimism and his intimacy.- Rallis Angelidis was a Greek actor, who played small parts in Greek films. He had roots from Russia. He collaborated with various troupes, taking on characteristic comic roles. After the mid-1920s, he performed in operettas and revues, among others. He came to Athens with his family in the 40s and after 1944 he worked permanently with the Acropolis Theater. He debuted on the big screen on 1941 and appeared in several films until the late 60s. In his personal life he never married, but he had nieces and a sister who lived in Patmos. In recent years, he faced diabetes-related movement problems. In 1972 he suffered amputation of his lower limbs and in 1973 he sold his house in Athens to be near his sister in Patmos. A year later in the summer of 1974 he passed away.
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Dimitris Gaziadis was a Greek cinematographer, one of the first directors of Greek cinema and the founder of the film company "Dag Film" together with his brothers, Mihallis Gaziadis and Kostas Gaziadis. He studied photography in Germany and for several years he taught at the Imperial Film Academy in Munich while working as a military cameraman in Berlin with his own film company. During WWI, Gaziadis was the head of the German army film service. Consequently, the Greek government assigned him in 1919 to film scenes from the operations of the Asia Minor campaign. Indeed, Dimitris Gaziadis responded to this invitation and returned to Germany and after procuring the necessary machines and material he returned and crossing Asia Minor he shot several films from the front including the battle of the Sangarios. Thus he created his first film Greek Miracle (1922) with footage shot on location in Smyrna. In the meantime, in 1920, together with his brothers Kostas (a cameraman, who had returned from America where he systematically followed the development of cinematography) and Mihalis, he founded in Athens the first film production company that bore the name "Dag Film", where until 1930 he directed the first notable Greek silent films. However, after the appearance of talking pictures, Dag Film was unable to face the competition of foreign films and as a result it was disbanded.- Spyros Melas was a Greek journalist, writer, dramatist, stage director, editor and academic. He was one of the most productive figures with a long-standing service and manifold activities in the intellectual domain of his time. He was born in Nafpaktos and joined the Athens University Law School, but did not complete his studies. He started his career in journalism with the newspapers 'Asty' and 'Acropolis', while he was soon distinguished as a chronicler and war correspondent at the Balkan Wars, where he served as an artillery sergeant and at the Greco-Italian war, as well. He published his experience in his book "Polemikes selides" (War Pages).
He served as the chief editor in the newspapers "Chronos", "Nea Imera", "Patris", as the director in "Democratia" (1924) and collaborated with many others ("Ebros", "I Kathimerini", "Eleftheria", "Estia", "To Vima"), while in 1948, he published the periodical "Elliniki Dimiourgia".
He also deployed an important activity in the theater area, as a writer, actor and director. In 1925, he founded the short-lived "Theatro Tehnis" (Art Theater) and in 1929 co-founded the theater company "Elefthera Skini" (Free Stage) with Marika Kotopouli and Dimitris Myrat. He was the director of this companies. He revived notably the Athenian repertoire from 1924 until 1936 and collaborated with Aliki Theodorides and Kostas Mousouris.
In 1935, he was elected a member of the Academy of Athens, where he served as the president in 1959. - Pavlos Katapodis was a self-made actor who first appeared in Kiriakos Mavreas' theatrical company. Before that, he used to be a typographer. He worked with many stars of the time (Manos Filippidis, Yannis Prineas, Vasilis Argyropoulos, Vasilis Logothetidis, Marika Kotopouli, Mimis Fotopoulos, Dinos Iliopoulos and lastly with Dimitris Myrat) and turned to be a successful comical character actor. He had a big success with Fotopoulos in a stage adaptation of The Good Soldier Svejk. His nickname was 'Prokas'. He has a rich filmography, starting from the silent movie era. He was keen in writing, too (scripts, poetry). He ceased acting in 1967 due to illness and died 5 years later.
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Greek violinist. The son of the Italian violinist Federico Bolognini Sr., who at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries worked in Greece and taught at the Athens Conservatory. He studied there, graduating from the course in 1917. A student of Joseph Bustidui. Then he improved his skills in Paris. He is best known as the concertmaster of the Athens State Orchestra from 1942 till 1963. From the end of the 1920s and until 1950 he also performed as part of the Athens Trio, founded by Dimitris Mitropoulos, initially with the cellist Ahilleas Papadimitriou; since 1931, the pianist Spyros Farantatos and the cellist Lida Kouroukli have played in the trio. He collaborated as a soloist with foreign orchestras and gave many concerts in various cities in Europe and America.- Actress
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Rena Stratigou was a Greek actress. She began her acting career and belonged to her father's family company, Vasilis Stratigos. Coming from an acting family, including older brother Stefanos Stratigos, older sister Aleka Stratigou and younger sister Stella Stratigou. She joined the Union of Greek Actors (SEI) in 1947. In 1950, she participated with Sofia Vempo's company. She acted in the Mimis Traiforos-Giorgos Giannakopoulos's play 'Vyra tis agkyres', where she sang a then hit song with her sisters. She landed several hit roles in the big screen as well, but she retired from acting in the mid-50s. She died in Athens in 2014.- Loukianos Rozan was a Greek actor. He was born in Athens in 1920. He studied at the Higher School of Commerce, but left to attend acting classes at the Drama School of Kostis Bastias. Nephew of actor Nikos Rozan. Announcer of the National Radio Foundation (1938-1940). He recited with Afroditi Laoutari the first war announcement in the war of 1940. In the post-war period, he worked as an actor in countless theatrical shows (collaborator of Antigoni Metaxa), as announcer and regular collaborator of the theatrical department of the National Radio Foundation. Using the voice, the body and some objects he managed to create the acoustic atmosphere required in some plays. He had a characteristic role in the film And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband (1965), where he played Mihalakis. He died in 1994.
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Born in Athens, Greece. Studied at the Lycée Léonin of Athens and in the Theresianische Akademie in Vienna. One of the pioneers of Greek cinema, he worked as art director in Dimitris Gaziadis' Astero (1929) and Orestis Laskos' Daphnis and Chloe (1931) on the side of Dimitris Meravidis, and had a small role in Ahilleas Madras' The Wizard of Athens (1931). He directed two feature films, Open Sea (1954) and Elsewhere the Cackling (1960), and two short documentaries, Sophocles' Elektra (1938, National Theater, by Dimitris Rontiris and Kos, to nisi tou Ippokratous (1958). In 1955 he founded the Ancient Drama Film Organization, intended to produce and distribute film versions of ancient Greek tragedies. In the same year he adapted Sophocles' Oedipus the King for the big screen. Filming started in 1959, with Dimitris Myrat as Oedipus and Aleka Katselli as Jocasta but the film was never completed. He was a regular columnist in the 'Nea' newspaper (1929-1932) and in the 'Parlan' and 'Protoporoi' magazines. In 1931, he has assigned director of the Athens press office of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He had an important career as a theatrical photographer. His love for the art of photography is dated to the mid-20's. As the first photographer of National Theater, he contributed with irreplaceable aesthetic documents from shows of the state theater, as well as from independent companies, for more than two decades (1932-1955).- Set Decorator
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Markos Zervas was a Greek set designer, production manager and writer. His career is inextricably linked to the course of the Finos Film company, participating in 152 of its films, even as a technician and sound engineer, in addition to set designer and production manager. Zervas was born in Athens in 1920. He collaborated with Filopoimin Finos, from 1939, then with the company Hellenic Film Studios, which was newly established and is considered the forerunner of Finos Film. Since 1952, he participated in almost all of the company's films, as a set designer, and from 1958 to 1977, when the company ceased to function as a production manager. Among the most important films in which he participated as a set designer, the following should be considered: I oraia ton Athinon (1954), No Harm's Done (1955), Laterna, ftoheia kai filotimo (1955), The Auntie from Chicago (1957) etc. While as a production manager, the most famous films of the company can be found, such as The Policeman of the 16th Precinct (1959), Makrykostas and Kondogiorgis (1960), Maiden's Cheek (1959), The Wise Guy (1962) and many more. After the end of the company, Zervas was involved in various productions of television and cinema. Finally, he counts more than 200 film credits. Zervas was also involved in painting and collage. In fact, his works were exhibited twice in Athens in 1989, and once in Ermoupolis, Syros in 2001. While, in 2003, the book: Finos Film 1939-1977 (Myth and Reality) was published, a rare document on the first years of the company, and the efforts of Finos, pre-war and post-war. However, twenty days after the presentation of this book, he dies at the age of 83, from a heart attack.- Giannis Heimonidis was a Greek actor and studied at the Drama School of the National Conservatory. He participated in many troupes in Athens and on tours in the provincial cities. He also made a big tour in Africa where he stayed for about ten years. He also took part in international productions close to famous actors. He also participated in TV series. He died in 1987.
- Athanasia Moustaka was a Greek actress with a significant theatrical career until the mid-60s. She was distinguished for her modest ethos, indomitable hard work and exemplary professional conscientiousness. She is the daughter of the actor and trouper Dionysios Plessas. In 1913, at the age of 14, she debuted on stage and until 1918 she had collaborated with the troupes of Kyveli and Marika Kotopouli. From 1921 to 1925 she collaborated with the Veakis-Nezer troupe and in 1931 she was hired by the newly established National Theater, where she remained until 1950. In 1926 she lost her husband Konstantinos Moustakas (1883-1926), also an actor, well-known at the time for the role of "Leontari" in Timos Depasta's comedy "Tziotiko Ravaisi". In 1951 she collaborated with Dimitris Rontiris, in 1952-1953 with the Lambetis-Pappas-Horn troupe and from 1953 until her death in 1968 she collaborated again with the National Theater. During her 55 years of complete devotion to theater, Moustaka played countless roles. She emerged as a character actress in a number of works, from light Greek and foreign comedies to tragedies, where she played "nurses" and "maids" with admirable success. In the 1950s and 1960s, she increased her appearances on the big screen, where she adapted her acting skills with characteristic ease. Prominent roles in films include O methystakas (1950) & The Counterfeit Coin (1955) by Giorgos Tzavellas, The Shepherd's Daughter (1955) by Dimis Dadiras, Astero (1959) by Dinos Dimopoulos, A Neighborhood Named 'The Dream' (1961) by Alekos Alexandrakis and Lost Happiness (1966) by Pavlos Tasios, which was also her last appearance on the screen. She debuted on the big screen in 1929 in Dimitris Gaziadis' melodrama The Port of Tears (1929), alongside Aimilios Veakis. Athanasia Moustaka died on July 13, 1968, at the age of 69. Her funeral took place the next day at the 3rd Cemetery of Athens, attended by well-known actors of the time, such as Eleni Hatziargyri, Mary Aroni, Vaso Manolidou, Nikos Tzogias and Rita Myrat. Angelos Terzakis said goodbye to Athanasia Moustaka on behalf of the National Theater and Miranta Myrat on behalf of the Hellenic Actors' Union. Eulogy was delivered by the historian of the modern Greek theater, Giannis Sideris.
- Nikos Filippopoulos was a Greek theater and film actor. He studied at the Dramatic School of the National Theatre. He also studied Byzantine and European music and radio direction. As a child, he participated in the radio show 'I ora tou paidiou' while also participating in the theater of Antigoni Metaxa. He took part in radio broadcasts and developed directing activity: he directed Greek and foreign plays, historical and folklore chronicles, shows with religious themes, etc. He adapted various theatrical texts. He first appeared in the theater in 1948 and until 1982 he participated in 62 performances of the National Theatre. In film, he's mostly known from the film And the Woman Shall Fear Her Husband (1965) having the supporting role of Themistoklis.
- Maria Giannakopoulou was an Greek character actress of theater and cinema. He was born in 1918 in Athens and first appeared in the theater in 1938 with the troupe of Vasilis Argyropoulos in the play 'When the Wife Rules'. She also had important roles in cinema, in the films O methystakas (1950) in 1950 as Horn's mother and Madalena (1960) as Vougiouklaki's grandmother where she appears briefly. She played at the "Art Theater" in "The Bald Soprano" by Eugène Ionesco in 1961. She died at the age of 49 from cancer in July 1967.
- Marika Anthopoulou was a Greek actress, raised in a theatrical environment. She was the daughter of the opera singer Magda Komninou and since her childhood (13 years old), has already performed on stage with the troupe of K. Moustakas. Influenced by her mother, she specialized in musical theater and revue. She played in "Parapigmata" by Theofrastos Sakellaridis where she had her first big success and in the well-known revue "Panathinaia". It was there that she met her husband Nikos Miliadis, with whom she then followed a common path in troupes that he created either alone or in collaboration with others, playing operettas by Sakellaridis and revues. She stopped for a while and returned after the war until 1955 where she appeared for the last time with Katerina Andreadi's troupe. The son of Marika and Nikos Miliadis was the excellent actor Takis Miliadis.
- Giorgos Karetas was a Greek character actor. He was born in 1921 and died in 1989. He studied at the drama schools of Marika Kotopouli and the National Theater. He appeared in several films of [kink=nm0517767]. From 1961 to 1975 he took part in 29 plays of the National Theater of Greece.
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Stefanos Fotiadis was a Greek actor, screenwriter and playwright. He studied theater at the Sokratis Karatinos Drama School. He began his career as an actor appearing with various troupes such as the National Theater of Vasilis Argyropoulos and post-war with the Hellenic Comedy troupe. From 1950 he turned to his writing activity, wrote many comedies and translated for theatrical plays by Molière and Sacha Guitry. He also adapted his works for the cinema, the first being Greedy for Everything (1952). He wrote 15 plays, many of which were transferred to the big screen, in adaptations by himself or other screenwriters. He was a board member of the Society of Greek Playwrights.- Composer
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Ioannis Konstantinidis, also known by the pen name Kostas Giannidis (21 August 1903 - 17 January 1984) was a Greek composer, pianist and conductor. Constantinidis was born in Smyrna (today Izmir) in 1903. He came to Greece after the destruction of Smyrna and continued his studies in Berlin (1923-1931). He returned to Athens and worked as a conductor and composer at the musical theater composing many operettas, musical comedies, and revues. He would sign and publish his popular works as Kostas Giannidis, and his classical compositions as his birth name. Konstantinidis wrote symphonic, chamber music, music for films, compositions for piano, art songs, and many popular songs. He died in Athens in 1984.- Make-Up Department
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He was called the 'Greek Charlot', and was one of the most special men of film studios and theatrical back stages, as well as a unique artist of make-up. Kimon Spathopoulos, born in Constantinople in 1904, migrated to France at the early 20s. According to the biography by Thodoros Exarhos, he was a talented mime artist and started working outside a famous Parisian movie theater, advertising Charles Chaplin's films. Appeared as an extra in some films before settling to Greece in 1928. He kept miming Chaplin's tramp outside theaters for advertising, that's when he got the nickname the 'Greek Charlot'. He made his film debut in Orestis Laskos's The Clown of Life (1930). Since then he acted in numerous productions alongside the most famous Greek actors. His ability to transform the actor's face in different personas using make-up and masks, gave him the denomination 'The man with a thousand faces' and helped him to become the first important make-up artist with a multi-annual career. Died in 1990.- Cinematographer
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Joseph Hepp was a Hungarian-Greek cinematographer and film director. Originally working for Pathé, Joseph Hepp moved to Athens in 1910, first as a projectionist for the Panellinion Cinema, then he shot newsreels such as 'The Little Princes at the Palace's Garden' (of which only a few fragments have survived), at the request of King George I, who soon named him Royal Photographer and Cinematographer. He then filmed the Balkan wars including the capture of Thessaloniki. In December 1916, he also filmed the excommunication of Eleftherios Venizelos at the time of the National Schism, the first political report in the history of Greek cinema. In 1916-1917, Joseph Hepp founded the production company Asty Films with Giorgos Prokopiou. One of the innovations of the company, due to Hepp, was the development of a new technique for inserting Greek titles in imported films. Their first project The Uphill of Golgotha (1917) was not completed. In 1917 he worked with Dimos Vratsanos and Filippo Martelli on Annoula's Dowry (1917). However, the company's financial difficulties forced Hepp to sell it back to a consortium of wealthy Cape Town Greeks. In 1917, suspected, as an Austro-Hungarian of being favorable to the Triple Alliance (which was the case), Joseph Hepp was exiled on Skyros, then Ikaria. In the early 1920s, he shot the Vilar series. For two 1930s short films, including I kamariera kai o manavis (1930), he developed his own sound system. Hepp was then working for the production house Olympia Films.- Edison Vihos (or Apollon Marsyas as was his screen name) was an amateur Greek actor and photographer. He became popular playing Dafnis, in Orestis Laskos' film Daphnis and Chloe (1931). It was the first Greek film to feature some nudity, and at that time it was considered scandalous. He played in one more film (Prince of the Tramps (1932)) and he gave up acting. Later he became a photographer, while at some point he was spotted owning a shop with picture frames and other decoration items in Athens. He died in 1994.