Nikos Tsiforos Νίκος Τσιφόρος
Born	(1912-08-27)27 August 1912 Alexandria,Egypt
Died	6 August 1970(1970-08-06) (aged 57) Athens, Greece
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, film director
Years active	1948–1970

Nikos Tsiforos (Greek:Νίκος Τσιφόρος; 27 August 1912 – 6 August 1970) was a Greek humorist,screenwriter, andfilm director. He had more than 60 film scripts to his credit between 1948 and 1970. He further directed 17 films between 1948 and 1961.

Tsiforos was born inAlexandria,Egypt, in 1912; two years later, his family permanently resettled in Athens. He began writing at age 11, and in 1938, he wrote his first play, which was performed in an outdoors theatre inFreattyda. He went on to earn a degree in law, and work for two years at the Election Supervision Council. He then resigned to travel the seas.

He continued switching jobs periodically until 1939 while writing film scripts as well as doing other types of writing. His first major success was in 1944, when the company ofDimitris Horn and Mairi Aroni staged one of his plays, "Η Πινακοθήκη των Ηλιθίων" (The portrait gallery of dolts). In 1948 and 1949, he scripted and directed his first film,Τελευταία αποστολή (Last Mission).

Tsiforos also worked as a reporter for the Athens press and contributed to newspapers such as Φιλελεύθερος, Βήμα, and Ελεύθερος Κόσμος, as well as magazines like Τραστ, Ρομάντσο, Ταχυδρόμος, and Πάνθεον.

Tsiforos collaborated extensively with Polyvios Vassiliadis on numerous hit film scripts, earning exceptional renown for their scintillating wit and hilarious humor.^{[citation needed]}

His deft use of the Greek contemporary vernacular is considered peerless by several leading literary critics.^{[citation needed]}

• Sylvia Mittler, "The Crusades and Frankish Medieval Greece as (Re)Appropriation: Carnivalesque Historiography and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos." In:Postmodern Medievalisms, ed. Richard Utz and Jesse G. Swan (Cambridge: Brewer, 2004), pp. 209–36.
• Sylvia Mittler, "Subversive Storytelling: Popular Historiography, Alternative Cultural Memory, and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos Tsiforos." In:Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity, ed. Francisco Cota Fagundes and Irene Maria F. Blayer (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 171–88.

• Nikos Tsiforos atIMDb

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