Napoleon Eleftheriou

Writing • 1920-12-15 • Athens, Greece

Napoleon Eleftheriou (Greek: Ναπολέων Ελευθερίου) was born in 1921 in Athens. He began his writing career in 1945 by writing texts for the show "Pre-Election Review". He started in the cinema eleven years later, in 1954, writing the script for the film by J. Aliferis "Goal on Love". The following year, he went on to direct "The Three Babies", the only one in his life. In total he wrote 100 plays with a preference for reviews, more than 100 songs as a lyricist and 47 film scripts. Some of the films for which he has written the script are "Wedding in Greek" (1964), "The Dosatzides" (1959), "Eva did not sin" (1965), "The President" (1972), "Honest Wanted" (1963), "The Twins" (1964), "The King of Mistakes" (1962). He died in 2003. (Source: Karagiannis-Karatzopoulos)