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- Actor
- Writer
Phaedros Stassinos was a Greek-Cypriot actor whose international stage name was Paul Stassino. He was born in Cyprus but at age 17 left for the U.K. to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Spent most of his acting career in Britain. He appeared in British TV dramas such as Danger Man (1960) and The Saint (1962). Best known performance was in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965) when he played two parts, Major François Derval and Angelo Palazzi. Other roles include "Le Pirate" in That Riviera Touch (1966), and the first officer of the Colombian ship Paloma in Tiger Bay (1959). Left the U.K in the seventies to manage a casino in Athens, Greece. In the 1980s returned to his homeland of Cyprus. He had three children from two marriages: two from his British first wife, who live in the U.K. and one, from his Greek second wife, who lives in Greece.- Elli Kiriakidou was born on 21 May 1931 in Limassol, Cyprus. She was an actress, known for Horismos (1966), Agapes kai kaimoi (1967) and The Sighing Chord (1970). She died on 23 October 2020 in Cyprus.
- Clifford Mollison was born on 30 March 1897 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Christmas Carol (1951), The Lucky Number (1932) and A Southern Maid (1934). He died on 4 June 1986 in Cyprus.
- Writer
- Producer
Arden Winch was born on 19 February 1926 in Sheffield, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for 1990 (1977), The Guardians (1971) and Big Brother (1970). He was married to Phoebe Young. He died on 19 May 1991 in Paphos, Cyprus.- Actress
- Writer
Dora Kakouratou was born on 25 December 1944 in Limassol, Cyprus. She was an actress and writer, known for Oi diplares (1994), Proti stagona (2014) and Tin patisa (2007). She died on 14 December 2022 in Nicosia, Cyprus.- Tom Aspell was born in 1950 in New Zealand. He died on 11 February 2013 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Florentia Dimitriou was an actress, known for O viasmos tis Afroditis (1985). She died on 10 October 2018 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Actress
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Monica Vassiliou was born in Greece, on the island of Mytilene (Lesvos). She studied drama at the Ostrovski Institute in the former Soviet Union and later specialized in children's theatre at the Centre d'education populaire in Paris, France. Her stage career includes performances in Moscow, London, Athens and Nicosia, Cyprus. In London, she appeared in a BBC production of Nico Kazantzakis's controversial novel Christ Recrucified as the widow, a role previously played by Melina Mercouri in the Jules Dassin 1957 movie version of this novel. After a long battle with cancer of the vocal chords that kept her off stage, Monica began acting again in theatre and television while ocassionally directing as well.- He studied medicine in Cape Town, where he also received his doctorate and completed his residency. He received specialist surgical training at the University of Minnesota in the USA. In 1948 he married Aletta Gertruida Louw and the couple had a daughter and a son. He performed his first heart operation in Minnesota, but in 1958 he returned to Cape Town. There he initially worked as a general practitioner before becoming a surgical assistant at the Medical School at the University of Cape Town. In the same year he performed the first open heart operation at the Groote Schuur Hospital. He became director of the surgical research department at the University of Cape Town and was appointed professor of thoracic surgery at the age of 40. However, he had already had around 1,000 heart operations. In addition, since 1963 he had been intensively involved in animal experiments with special surgical techniques, such as special vascular suturing techniques and the effects of medication.
On December 3, 1967, Prof. Barnard led the 31-member transplant team that achieved the first human heart transplant. The heart of Denise Darvall, who died in a car accident at the age of 25, was transplanted into the patient, Louis Washkansky, in a five-hour operation at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The operation was successful in that Washkansky survived it. To prevent his body from rejecting the foreign organ, Washkansky's immune powers were largely disabled. After 18 days he died of pneumonia as a result of an infection. The second patient, Dr. Philip Blaiberg, underwent surgery on January 2, 1968 and lived with the transplanted heart for 19 months. Nevertheless, transplant medicine did not initially catch on. It only experienced an upswing around 1980, when the active ingredient cyclosporine was used to suppress the rejection of foreign organs. Even after the first heart transplant, Barnard made a name for himself with further spectacular operations.
In 1971, he simultaneously transplanted a heart and both lungs into a patient. In 1974, he transplanted a donor heart without first removing the diseased organ. Both patients died not long after surgery. After the divorce in 1970, he married Barbara Maria Zoellner and the couple had two sons. The marriage ended in divorce in 1982. In 1983 Barnard had to give up his practice as a surgeon because he suffered from severe arthritis. He dedicated himself to heart disease children with the "Christian Barnard Foundation", ran a clinic on the Greek island of Kos and worked as a scientist in Oklahoma on aging problems. He has published numerous non-fiction books such as the guide "50 Ways to a Healthy Heart". In 1988, Karin Setzkorn became his third wife, with whom he had a daughter and a son. This marriage also ended in divorce in 2000.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard died on September 2, 2001 while on vacation in Cyprus at the age of 78. - Nicolas Economou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1953. At the age of five, he started taking piano lessons and very soon he revealed his extraordinary talent by improvising on the piano and composing short pieces of music. In 1964, after an audition, he was accepted at the Special School of Music of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, a preparatory school for youngsters to enter the Conservatory. In December of that year, in Athens, he won the "Keti Papaioannou" Panhellenic Competition for young musicians up to the age of seventeen. The following year at the age of twelve, he begun his musical studies in Moscow. At the age of sixteen, he participated in the Tchaikovsky competition, gaining favourable reviews from the Press, Radio and Television. A year later, he was admitted to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory itself. After Moscow he moved to Dusseldorf and then to Munich, Germany. From his new base there he established himself throughout Europe as a concert pianist, composer (he studied composition with the Russian Vladislav Zolotorev), arranger, conductor and organiser of music festivals.
As a performer he appeared in Europe, the USA and Canada as well as the USSR, Japan, Iceland, and Israel. He performed solo, with orchestras and other famous performers and composers like Martha Argerich, Rodion Shchedrin, Siatoslav Richter, Michel Beroff, Chick Corea and others. Apart from performing in concert with Martha Argerich and Chick Corea, he also recorded with them. The record with Chick Corea, entitled " On Two Pianos", was the result of a series of concerts in Germany in 1981/82 during which the two musicians would interact with each other by improvising in their own style.
In addition to the records mentioned above, he also released two other solo albums.
As a composer he wrote music for piano, for small ensembles, symphonic music and film music. Many of his compositions have themes and rhythms from Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Some of his compositions are: "Children Studies", "Sonata for Chick" (dedicated to Chick Corea) for piano, "Cyprus Pictures" and "Cyprus Dances" for an eight piece musical ensemble (octet), the soundtracks for twelve films including "Rosa Luxemburg" and "Die bleierne Zeit", both by Margarethe von Trotta.
In 1978, with the collaboration of the City of Munich, Nicolas organised a "Cyprus Week" in Munich, with artists from Cyprus including actors, musicians, painters, sculptors and the late shadow performer, Paphios. He was also the founder of the "Solisten Ensemble" in Munich with which he performed some of his compositions and those of other composers. He was the co-founder of the well - established "Munich Summer Piano Festival". In February 1992 he organised in Venice the first of a series of piano festivals he intended to establish in Europe with the title "Pianisti non Solo".
As a conductor he directed the distinguished Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, Germany's Youth Orchestra and the La Fenice Opera Orchestra of Venice.
As an acknowledgement of his services and contribution to Culture and the Arts in general, Nicolas was honoured on various occasions by several bodies. The city of Munich honoured him in 1979 for his contribution to the Arts, as a composer and interpreter of classical and modern music, with the award for "Best Interpreter of the Year". In 1983, the Bavarian TV produced a television portrait of Nicolas, more than an hour in duration, in which he is shown in all facets of his creative life. The film, called "Kreisleriana", was directed by Klaus Voswinkel. Since 1988, a seat bearing his name has stood in the Prinzregententheatr of the City of Munich, next to seats of other prominent artists. Because of his outstanding contribution to music, he was accepted in 1992 into one of Europe's prominent societies, the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (The European Academy of Sciences and Arts) members of which are Nobel Prize winners, politicians, artists, church dignitaries and others. In Cyprus he was honoured with the "Tevkros Anthias and Theodosis Pierides" Award. - Sunnie Mann was born in 1913 in Axbridge, Somerset, England, UK. She was married to Jackie Mann and John Wilson. She died on 30 November 1992 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Edward du Cann was born in 1924 in the UK. He was married to Sallie Innes and Jenifer Cooke. He died on 31 August 2017 in Cyprus.
- Maria Miha was born in 1949 in Edessa, Greece. She was an actress, known for To theatro tis Defteras (1970), Gia tin agapi sou (2008) and To theatro tis Tetartis (1984). She died on 24 September 2023 in Cyprus.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Alda Noni was born on 30 April 1916 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Italy]. She was an actress, known for Aufruhr im Damenstift (1941), Days and Clouds (2007) and Le cantatrici villane (1958). She died on 14 May 2011 in Cyprus.- Maryon Lane was born on 15 February 1931 in Zululand, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Dance Little Lady (1954), The King's Breakfast (1963) and Melodies for You (1967). She was married to David Blair. She died on 13 June 2008 in Cyprus.
- Bobbie Bradshaw was born on 30 November 1908 in Shoreditch, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Scrags (1930). She was married to Ranald Ker-Lindsay. She died on 7 April 2003 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Production Designer
John Corbidge was born on 3 February 1935 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a production designer, known for Sin (1971) and Jim Davidson's Generation Game (1995). He died in November 2003 in Cyprus.- Vasos Lyssaridis was born on 13 May 1920 in Pano Lefkara, Cyprus. He died on 26 April 2021 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Dick O'Hary was an actor, known for Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch! (2008), Never Grow Old (2019) and Kupetzky (2006). He died on 16 February 2021 in Paphos, Cyprus.
- Hristos Papadopoulos was born in 1930 in Limassol, Cyprus. He was an actor, known for Kalabush (2002), Katothkion tis Madaris (1986) and Aigia fuxia (2008). He died on 20 October 2018 in Limassol, Cyprus.
- Roy Findlay was born on 7 January 1903 in Barnes, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Gaol Break (1936), Lightning Conductor (1938) and A Clown Must Laugh (1936). He was married to Judy Shirley. He died on 9 June 1973 in Kyrenia, Cyprus.
- Wenonah Nutting was born in 1904 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Dot and Carrie (1927). She died on 9 July 1960 in Episkopi, Cyprus.
- John Rowan Wilson was born on 19 November 1919 in the UK. John Rowan was a writer, known for Behind the Mask (1958), BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960) and The Double Blind (1962). John Rowan died on 23 May 1973 in Orga, Cyprus.
- Glafkos Klerides was born on 24 April 1919 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He died on 15 October 2013 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Dimitris Xystras was born on 25 June 1954 in Agios Epiktitos, Kyrenia, Cyprus. He was an actor, known for O teleftaios gyrismos (2008), Block 12 (2013) and Visions of Europe (2004). He died on 26 April 2023 in Cyprus.
- Giorgos Loris was born in 1958 in Paphos, Cyprus. He was an actor, known for Joy & Sorrow of the Body (2012), Ego... kai to pouli mou (1982) and Vimata stin ammo (2010). He died on 15 November 2021 in Cyprus.
- Rauf Denktas was born on 24 January 1924 in Paphos, Cyprus. He was a writer, known for Isgal Altinda (1993), Kypros '72 (1972) and Kibris'ta Bir Özgürlük Aniti (1997). He was married to Aydin Munir. He died on 13 January 2012 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Andreas Mavromatis was an actor, known for Exodos (2007), Agapes kai kaimoi (1967) and Word of Honor (2001). He died on 18 July 2016 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Tassos Papadopoulos was born on 7 January 1934 in Nicosia, Cyprus. He died on 12 December 2008 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Jackie Mann was born on 11 June 1914 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK. He was married to Sunnie Mann. He died on 12 November 1995 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Lakis Skoutaris was an actor, known for Aimilia, the Psychopath (1974). He died on 1 February 2018 in Limassol, Cyprus.
- Giorgos Hristodoulidis was born in 1969 in Paphos, Cyprus. He was an actor and composer, known for To Roz Synnefaki (1994), Forever Young (2014) and Ston asterismo tis gravatas (1993). He died on 27 November 2021 in Cyprus.