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Born in Athens, in 1936.
From 1956, and for about a decade, he worked as first assistant-director or production manager in more than fifty Greek films or foreign films shot in Greece.
The shooting of his first full-length film OPEN LETTER was branded by the declaration of dictatorship in Greece, in April 1967. In 1968, the film was smuggled out of the country and was screened at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI award of the International Association of Cinema Critics. In the same year, the junta-appointed committee of the Thessaloniki Film Festival barred the film from the competition.
During the dictatorship in Greece, George Stamboulopoulos refrained from every creative film activity and made a living by producing and directing commercials. Between 1968 and 1984 he shot more than a thousand commercial spots.
He made a comeback to cinema after the changeover in the regime (in 1974), with the script for the film NEMESIS, which was banned by censorship. The film was never made. Similar limitations were imposed on the television programmes he shot for ERT [a state TV channel].
Between 1980 and 1991 he made three feature films: MARCHING ON TO GLORY, CAUTION DANGER, and TWO SUNS IN THE SKY. During the same period he also made television films for state and private television channels.
After fifteen years, in 2006, he shot his latest film, PANDORA.
He is married to the painter Julia Andriadou and has a daughter and a son.
