Giannis Dalianidis
Born: 1923-10-31 in Thessaloniki, Greece
Died: 2010-10-16
Known For: Directing
Biography
Giannis Dalianidis (Greek: Γιάννης Δαλιανίδης; 31 December 1923 – 16 October 2010) was a Greek film director. His first film was Mousitsa, released in 1959, which was followed by a series of musicals. Between 1974 and 1981, he produced the television series Luna Park. In 2002, he was dubbed a "national film hero" at the International Thessaloniki Film Festival. Giannis Dalianidis was born in Thessaloniki on 31 December 1923. He started his career as a dancer under the nickname Giannis Dal. From 1958, he worked in cinema, initially as a screenwriter and afterwards as a director. In 1959 he directed his first film, Mousitsa and sometime later Laos kai Kolonaki. In 1961 he started to cooperate with the Finos Films the most successful Greek film production company. He directed such films as The Downhill, Liar Wanted, and Gorgones ke Manges, among others. Dalianidis mainly excelled in musical films. This genre, in Greece, is today closely related with Dalianidis. He directed over 70 films and 10 television series.
Filmography
2000
- Μικρές αμαρτίες ... (Director)
1998
- Απιστίες ... (Director)
1996
- Το χρώμα του φεγγαριού ... (Director)
1994
- Αραχτοί και Λάιτ ... (Director)
1992
- Oi Mikromesaioi ... (Screenplay)
1990
- The Penthouse ... (Screenplay)
1988
- Οι συνένοχοι ... (Director)
- Life Sentence ... (Director)
- Οδός Ανθέων ... (Director)
1987
- The Stringed Lover ... (Writer)
- Ο Μαφιόζος ... (Writer)
- Bananas ... (Writer)
- Χαμένοι Στο Μανχάταν ... (Director)
1986
- Areso kai kykloforo ... (Director)
- Party gia treis ... (Writer)
- Come... Kiss... Finished! ... (Director)
- Martha: To hroniko enos viasmou ... (Director)
1985
- Απόψε θα τη βρούμε ... (Director)
1984
- Darling, Let's Get Naked! ... (Director)
- When The Wheels Danced ... (Writer)
- Ένα τρελό τρελό μούτρο ... (Director)
1983
- Kamikazi, agapi mou ... (Director)
- Οι Επικίνδυνοι ... (Director)
1982
- Turning Point ... (Writer)
- Good Evening to You ... (Writer)
1981
- Τα Τσακάλια ... (Writer)
1977
- o kyr giorgis ekpaideyetai ... (Director)
1975
- The Terrorist ... (Director)
- A Tank on My Bed ... (Director)
1974
- My Love Ua Ua ... (Director)
- The Dream Lovers ... (Writer)
1973
- Twenty Women and I ... (Writer)
- Maria in Silence ... (Director)
- The Constellation of Virgin ... (Director)
1972
- The Princess's Little Boy ... (Writer)
- The Tough Guy With the Tricycle ... (Director)
- Η Αμαρτία Της Ομορφιάς ... (Director)
- The Enemy of the People ... (Director)
1971
- Marijuana Stop! ... (Director)
- A Greek woman in a Harem ... (Writer)
- O Katergaris ... (Director)
- The Revolutionary ... (Writer)
- The Sinners ... (Director)
1970
- Face to Face with Death ... (Director)
- A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman ... (Director)
1969
- The Parisian Lady ... (Writer)
- The Ladykiller ... (Director)
- The little man ... (Director)
- Wake up Vassili ... (Writer)
- When the City Dies ... (Director)
- Naked On The Street ... (Director)
1968
- Mermaids for Love ... (Writer)
- A Lady In Bouzoukia ... (Writer)
- The Liar ... (Director)
- A Woman's Past ... (Director)
- A Knight for Vasoula ... (Director)
- Mikes Is Getting Married ... (Director)
- Olga My Love ... (Director)
1967
- Groom from London ... (Director)
- The Blue Beads from Greece ... (Director)
- Wedding night ... (Director)
1966
- Date In The Air ... (Writer)
- Stefania ... (Writer)
- The Barefoot Prince ... (Director)
- Tears for Electra ... (Director)
1965
- A Very Clever Guy ... (Director)
- Story of a Lifetime ... (Director)
- Teddy Boy My Love ... (Director)
- The Robber Cries Thief! ... (Writer)
- Kiss the Girls ... (Director)
1964
- The Gambler
- The Heirs
- Something Hot ... (Director)
- Egoism ... (Director)
1963
- Someone like It Cold... ... (Writer)
- The Liar ... (Director)
- One Girl For Two Men ... (Writer)
- Vertigo ... (Director)
1962
- Nomos 4000 ... (Director)
- Without Identity ... (Director)
- The Miss Of The Mister ... (Director)
- Dimos from Trikala ... (Director)
- The Wise Guy ... (Director)
1961
- The Decline ... (Writer)
- The Tough Guy ... (Director)
- Who Is Margarita? ... (Writer)
- Liar Wanted ... (Director)
1960
- The Boy that I Love ... (Director)
- Cruise to Rhodes ... (Director)
- The Young Lady's Fool ... (Director)
- Christina ... (Director)
1959
- Laos and Kolonaki ... (Writer)
- A Fool And A Hater ... (Director)
- The Tomboy ... (Writer)
- Mousitsa ... (Director)
1958
- Mimikos and Mary as Andreas
- She's a Lunatic ... (Writer)
- The Girl of Sin ... (Writer)
1957
- The tree children from Volo as Giorgos