Vassilis Photopoulos ( el, Βασίλης Φωτόπουλος) (1934,
Kalamata
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– 14 January 2007,
Athens, Greece
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) was an influential
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painter,
film director
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,
art director
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and
set designer
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.
He was an
Academy Award
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winner for the film ''
Zorba the Greek
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'' for
art direction
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Vassilis Photopoulos was born in Kalamata and studied painting at a very young age under Vangelis Drakos. He appeared for the first time on the Art scene as the stage designer for play "Servant Lady", in the ''Athens Opera House''.
He also worked for the ''National Greek Theatre'', the ''Public Theatre of Northern Greece'', and the ''Liberal Theatre''.
In 1966, he worked with
Francis Ford Coppola
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in the film ''You're a Big Boy Now'', which starred
Geraldine Page
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,
Rip Torn
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,
Karen Black
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,
Julie Harris
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and
Elizabeth Hartman
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.
He died in Athens in 2007, aged 72.
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1934 births
2007 deaths
Greek film directors
Greek artists
People from Kalamata
Best Art Direction Academy Award winners
Date of birth missing
20th-century Greek painters
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