Dinos Dimopoulos

Dinos Dimopoulos

director, writer, actor

Dinos Dimopoulos was born on Aug 22, 1921 in Greece. Dinos Dimopoulos's big-screen debut came with Oi Germanoi xanarhontai... directed by Alekos Sakellarios in 1948, strarring Xenofon. Dinos Dimopoulos is known for The Little Dolphins directed by Dinos Dimopoulos, Stavros Dogiakos stars as Petros and Konstadina Alevra as Anthoula. Dinos Dimopoulos has got 2 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Dinos Dimopoulos achieved is Thessaloniki Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Dinos Dimopoulos plays is The Little Dolphins which will be released on Feb 18, 1994.

In his childhood he used to climb to the lighthouse of the nowadays ghost-town of Koprena, where he was raised, and daydream he was in a ship, sailing for distant places. His family, though, forbade a sailor's career. As things turned out, he became one of the two or three greatest film makers of the so-called golden era of the Greek cinema, the '60s. Three generations of Greeks laughed and cried with his movies. Those films are still very successful when broadcast on Greek TV. The sea is more than evident in his best known films. He had the reputation of a hard man to work with but he used to say, "making movies is a game, if we all respect its rules, we can enjoy the game, when someone breaks the rules the game is no longer amusing for the rest of the set". He spent many of the last years of his life by the sea, next to a pine forest, writing novels mostly for children.

  • Birthday

    Aug 22, 1921
  • Place of Birth

    Palairo, Arta, Greece

Known For

Awards

2 wins & 3 nominations

Thessaloniki Film Festival
2001
Winner - Honorary Golden Alexander
1967
Best Production
Winner - Greek Competition Award

Movies & TV Shows

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Movies