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Michael Cacoyannis Biography (1922-)

Born June 11, 1922, in Limassol, Cyprus; son of Panayotis Loizou (a lawyer) and Angeliki (Efthyvoulos) Cacoyannis. Addresses: Office: 15 Mouson St., Athens 117-41, Greece.

Nationality

Cypriot

Gender

Male

Occupation

director, producer, writer, actor

Birth Details

June 11, 1922

Limassol, Cyprus

Famous Works

• Credits; Film Work
• Director, Windfall in Athens (also see below), Millas Films, 1954.
• Director, Stella (also see below), Millas Films, 1955.
• Director, A Girl in Black (also see below), Lambiris Films, 1956.
• Director, A Matter of Dignity (also see below), Finos Films, 1957.
• Director and producer, Our Last Spring (also see below), Cacoyannis Productions, 1959.
• Director (with Giovanni Paolucci), The Wastrel (also see below), Medallion, 1961.
• Director and producer, Electra (also see below), Lopert, 1962.
• Director, producer, and editor, Zorba the Greek (also see below),Twentieth Century-Fox, 1964.
• Director and producer, The Day the Fish Came Out (also see below),International Classics, 1967.
• Producer (with Anis Nohra), director, and editor, The Trojan Women(also see below), Cinerama, 1971.
• Editor (with Takis Yannopoulos), and director, Iphigenia (also seebelow), Cinema Five, 1977.
• Director and producer, Sweet Country (also see below), Cinema Group, 1987.
• Director and producer, Up, Down and Sideways (also see below), Playmovie Productions, 1992.
• Producer and editor of Attila 74 (also see below), 1975.
• Credits; Film Appearances
• Councillor, Caesar and Cleopatra, Eagle Lion, 1946.
• Byron's secretary, The Bad Lord Byron, General Films Distributors,1949.
• Appeared as narrator, Attila 74, 1975; appeared in many of his ownfilms.
• Credits; Stage Director
• The Trojan Women, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1963-65.
• And Things That Go Bump in the Night, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1965.
• Les Troyennes, Theatre Nationale Populaire, Paris, 1965-66.
• The Devils, Broadway Theatre, New York City, 1965-66.
• Iphigenia in Aulis, Circle in the Square, 1967-68.
• Romeo and Juliet, Theatre Nationale Populaire, 1968.
• Lysistrata (also see below), Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1972.
• King Oedipus, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, 1973.
• The Glass Menagerie, National Theatre, Athens, Greece, 1979.
• Les Bacchantes, Comedie Francaise, 1979.
• The Bacchae (also see below), Circle in the Square, 1980.
• Zorba (also see below), Broadway Theatre, 1983-84.
• Directed A Woman of No Importance, Athens, 1954; The Rainmaker, Greece, 1957; The Beckett-Billetdoux Evening, Spoleto, Italy, 1968; Miss Margarita, Athens, 1974; Antony and Cleopatra, Athens,1981; The Three Sisters, Athens, 1982; Electra, Epidaurus, Greece, 1984; Naked, Athens, 1989; and Henceforward, Athens, 1990.Operas include Mourning Becomes Electra, Metropolitan Opera Theatre, New York City, 1967; La Boheme, Juilliard Theatre, New York City, 1971;La Traviata, Athens, 1982; Iphigenia in Aulis and in Tauris, Frankfurt State Opera, Frankfurt, Germany, 1987; and La Clemenza di Tito, Music Festival, Aix en Provence, France, 1988.
• Credits; Stage Appearances
• Appeared as Herod, Salome, London, 1945; appeared in Captain Brassbound's Conversion, 1948; and Two Dozen Roses, 1949; appeared in title role, Caligula, 1949; appeared in The Purple Fig Tree,1950.
• Credits; Television Director
• The Story of Jacob and Joseph (movie), ABC, 1974.
• Credits; Screenplays
• Windfall in Athens, Millas Films, 1954.
• Stella (based on a play by J. Campbanelis), Millas Films, 1955.
• A Girl in Black, Lambiris Films, 1956.
• A Matter of Dignity, Finos Films, 1957.
• Our Last Spring, Cacoyannis Productions, 1959.
• (With Frederic Wakeman and Suso Cecchi D'Amico) The Wastrel (basedon a novel by Wakeman), Medallion, 1961.
• Electra (based on Euripides's play of the same title), Lopert, 1962.
• Zorba the Greek (based on Nikos Kazantzakis's novel of the same title), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1964.
• The Day the Fish Came Out, International Classics, 1967.
• The Trojan Women (based on Edith Hamilton's English translation ofEuripides's play of the same title), Cinerama, 1971.
• Iphigenia (based on the play Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides), Cinema Five, 1977.
• Sweet Country (based on a novel by Caroline Richards), Cinema Group, 1987.
• Up, Down and Sideways, Playmovie Productions, 1992.
• Credits; Stage Plays
• (Adapter) Lysistrata, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1972.
• (Translator) The Bacchae, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1980.
• Credits; Other
• Author of Collected Writings, 1990. Translator into Greek of Antony and Cleopatra, 1980; Hamlet, 1985; and Coriolanus, 1990.

Further Reference

Books

• Contemporary Authors, Volume 101, Gale, 1981, pp. 96-97.