Dinos Katsouridis


Dinos Katsouridis was a Greek Cypriot film director, cinematographer and editor. He had worked in a lot of Greek film sometimes as director, sometimes as film editor and sometimes as cinematographer as well as writer. He has won film awards about all the categories of these works

Biography

He was born in Nicosia in 1927. He started to study Law Studies but he forsaked them in order to deal with cinema. He studied film direction in and he debuted in 1951 as assistant director in the film Pikro Psomi. Since 1960, he started to work as film director. His first films as director was the films Englima sta Paraskinia and Eimai Athoos. In 1963, he directed two successful comedies with Kostas Hatzichristos in Leading role, the films Tis Kakomoiras and O Kyrios Pterarchos. Since 1970, he directed movies that starred Thanasis Veggos. He has won four awards in Thessaloniki Film Festival in categories Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

Filmography

;As Director