Alekos Sakellarios

In memoriam

He was a Greek writer and a director. He was born in Athens and began to learn journalism and acting at a young age. He worte his first theatrical play in 1935 called The King of Halva. He employed himself into the film as a screenwriter and a director and wrote many plays. He directed mainly with Christos Giannakopoulos and only wrote with that cooperation of around 140 works. The most popular include: The Germans are Coming, Thanassakis o Politevomenos, I theia apo to Chicago, Dikoi mas Anthropoi, Ena Votsalo sti Limni, Kalos Ilthe to Dollario, Ta Kitrina Gantia, Otan Leipei i Gata, I Soferina, Laterna, Ftocheia kai Filotimo, Alimono stous Neous and more. He wrote several songs many of which became very successful. Among them are: Garifallo st' Afti, Ypomoni, Asta ta Mallakia sou, Eho ena Mystiko and more. He died in 1991 and is buried in the First Cemetery in a family grave. He spent his final years next to his wife Tina. He had two daughters.

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