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Alias:
Νίκος Φώσκολος
Νικος Φωσκολος
Birthplace:
Athens, Greece
Born:
November 26, 1927
Died:
October 30, 2013
Nikos Foskolos (Greek: Νίκος Φώσκολος; 26 November 1927 – 30 October 2013) was a Greek screenwriter and director. He is one of the most commercially successful screenwriters of Greek cinema. He has been called the "Goldfinger of commercial shows". He has been described as "the maître of exaggeration" and "the king of TV shows". His film Ipolochagos Natassa kept the most commercially successful film record for almost three decades from 1970 to 1999. Foskolos was born in Athens on 26 November 1927. He studied Political Science at the University of Athens but did not graduate. From the age of 17, he started writing successful radio plays with both a historical and modern background. His radio series Police Stories were the most popular radio series for three years. In the 1960s, he worked as a theatre critic and also wrote plays for the theatre and radio. He wrote screenplays for over 70 Greek films, mostly working for Finos Film. He introduced Spaghetti Westerns to Greek cinema. His TV daily serial Lampsi was a huge success and ran for 14 seasons getting into the Guinness World Records in 1995. He gained another entry into the Guinness World Records for writing two daily TV series, Lampsi and Kalimera Zoi, for ten years. Lampsi was shown for 13 years from 1991 to 2005 with a total of 3457 episodes produced. In the 1970s, his TV serial Agnostos Polemos (Unknown War) broke the record of TV ratings with 92% of Greek households tuning in to the show. Foskolos has been described as an "important screenwriter", a "talented director", a "wonderful human being" and "the father of TV-serials and films". Ta Nea refers to him as "hyperproductive". The same paper also calls him polygrafotatos translating as "a prolific writer". Foskolos has received awards for The Asphalt Fever (Πυρετός στην άσφαλτο), and The Ruthless (Οι αδίστακτοι). His film Blood on the Land (Το χώμα βάφτηκε κόκκινο) was an Academy Awards Best Foreign Film nominee in 1965. He also received three awards and a state award for Concert for Machine Guns (Κοντσέρτο για πολυβόλα).
Author:
1961 Death Will Return
Director:
1961 Death Will Return
1967 Bullets Don't Come Back
1968 Love and Blood
1968 The Avenue of Hate
1969 I Die Every Dawn
1970 In the name of the law
1970 Lieutenant Natassa
1970 Visibility Zero
1972 Captives of Hate
1972 With Fear and Passion
1980 Emergency exit
1981 17 Bullets for an Angel
1982 Wild Youth
1983 Θύρα 7: η μεγάλη στιγμή
1987 Front Page Woman
1987 Sentenced to Death
1987 Unknown War 2: The Man with Two Faces
1988 Μαρκησία του λιμανιού
1989 ABE Mafia... National academy of crooks
1989 Deadly dilemma
Script:
1961 Death Will Return
1967 Bullets Don't Come Back
1968 Love and Blood
1968 The Avenue of Hate
1969 I Die Every Dawn
1970 In the name of the law
1970 Lieutenant Natassa
1970 Visibility Zero
1972 Captives of Hate
1972 With Fear and Passion
1980 Emergency exit
1981 17 Bullets for an Angel
1982 Wild Youth
1983 Θύρα 7: η μεγάλη στιγμή
1987 Front Page Woman
1987 Sentenced to Death
1987 Unknown War 2: The Man with Two Faces
1988 Μαρκησία του λιμανιού
1989 ABE Mafia... National academy of crooks
1989 Deadly dilemma
Story:
1961 Death Will Return
1967 Bullets Don't Come Back
1968 Love and Blood
1968 The Avenue of Hate
1969 I Die Every Dawn
1970 In the name of the law
1970 Lieutenant Natassa
1970 Visibility Zero
1971 I loved a bum
1972 Captives of Hate
1972 With Fear and Passion
1980 Emergency exit
1981 17 Bullets for an Angel
1982 Wild Youth
1983 Θύρα 7: η μεγάλη στιγμή
1987 Front Page Woman
1987 Sentenced to Death
1987 Unknown War 2: The Man with Two Faces
1988 Μαρκησία του λιμανιού
1989 ABE Mafia... National academy of crooks
1989 Deadly dilemma
Writer:
1957 Jeep, Pavilion and Love
1959 Krystallo
1960 Tsakitzis: The Patron Saint of the Poor
1961 Death Will Return
1961 Love and storm
1961 The mother's curse
1963 Mother, why did you give birth to me?
1963 The Golden Eagles
1963 The Scum
1963 What the Night Hides
1964 It is a great pity
1964 Scream
1964 The barker
1964 Without parents and siblings
1965 Betrayed
1965 Dirty city
1965 The Ruthless
1965 The enemies
1966 Blood on the Land
1966 I blame the People
1966 Tears for Electra
1966 Thankless
1966 The Devastated
1966 The man who returned from pain
1966 Zero Hour Society
1967 Bullets Don't Come Back
1967 Concert for Machine Guns
1967 The Asphalt Fever
1967 The Drunk of the Harbor
1968 A Woman's Past
1968 Love and Blood
1968 The Avenue of Hate
1969 I Die Every Dawn
1969 The Refugee
1969 Treason Avenue
1969 When the City Dies
1970 In the name of the law
1970 Lieutenant Natassa
1970 The Jungle of Cities
1970 Visibility Zero
1970 Ο μεγάλος ένοχος
1971 Abuse of authority
1971 Frenzy
1971 I loved a bum
1971 Ο δρόμος των ηρώων
1972 Captives of Hate
1972 Love and Betrayal
1972 With Fear and Passion
1973 The Brave Die Twice
1973 The years of rage
1980 Emergency exit
1981 17 Bullets for an Angel
1981 Nelly, the Spy
1982 Wild Youth
1983 Θύρα 7: η μεγάλη στιγμή
1987 Front Page Woman
1987 Sentenced to Death
1987 Unknown War 2: The Man with Two Faces
1988 Μαρκησία του λιμανιού
1989 ABE Mafia... National academy of crooks
1989 Deadly dilemma
Creator:
1991 Lampsi
1993 Good morning Life
Director:
1991 Lampsi
1993 Good morning Life
Writer:
1978 Dangerous Exits
1991 Lampsi
1993 Good morning Life
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