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Greek TV and Film Writer Nikos Foskolos Passes Away

foskolosThe director and screenwriter left his last breath at seven o’clock this morning at the age of 88. The funeral will take place on Friday at 14.30 in the Cemetery of Heliopolis.
Nikos Foskolos was born in Athens on November 26 1927. He was a crime writer while the radio show “detective stories of Nikos Foskolos” was his first radio series garnering great success also being the bestseller of the time.
In the 1960’s he started to write plays, writing more than 10 plays, many of them which were for radio.  He was also a theater critic. In 1971 he started dealing successfully with the TV. The “Angostos Polemos” scored a world record 92% viewership.
Ιn 1991, when private television began, he wrote the TV series “Lampsi” which lasted 14 years making 3,457 episodes in total.
In 1993 he wrote his second TV series, “Kalimera Zoi, ” which lasted 13 years making 3,179 episodes in total.
Nikos Foskolos has received three awards, and a state Screenplay Award for the film “Kontserto gia Polyvola”.

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