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Filmmaker · Greece

Grigoris Grigoriou

Died in 2005

Grigoris Grigoriou, born in Athens in 1919, the eldest son of the lawyer Michalis Grigoriou, studied law, political science and languages, attended the drama courses of the university club and came to directing as a self-taught man. He took part in the Battle of Crete, was captured by the Germans, escaped and fought in the left-wing resistance. From 1942 to 1949 he worked in the legal department of the telephone company. He made about thirty films up to 1971, taught, worked for a long time for television and left memoirs. He died in Athens on 4 September 2005.

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