Alekos Sakellarios

Alekos Sakellarios, born in Athens on 7 November 1913, grew up on Acharnon Street, in the Agios Panteleimonas district, in a family descended from the national benefactor Konstantinos Zappas. He studied law without practising it and entered journalism young, which he never left. A lyricist, author of revues and comedies, nearly two hundred plays in all, he formed from 1940 a famous partnership with Christos Giannakopoulos, then came to cinema as a self-taught director in 1946, at the instigation of the producer Filopimin Finos. He died on 28 August 1991.

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• Feature filmMaiden's CheekΤο ξύλο βγήκε από τον παράδεισοAlekos Sakellarios · 1959Cinema