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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

114

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-02-12 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Loutra-Iraias, Greece

Also Known As

Costa Gavras

Κώστας Γαβράς

Constantin Costa-Gavras

Konstantínos Gavrás

科斯塔·加夫拉斯

Kēsī tǎ·jiā fū lā sī

コスタ=ガヴラス

Kosuta = gavurasu

Konstantinos Gavras

Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς

코스타 가브라스

코스타-가브라스

코스타가브라스

콘스탄틴 코스타 가브라스

콘스탄티노스 가브라스

Costa-Gavras

Biography

Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K.. Description above from the Wikipedia article Costa-Gavras, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

The Extraordinary Voyage

2011

The Extraordinary Voyage

as

Self - Filmmaker

Le Raconteur 2

2017

Le Raconteur 2

as

Self

Le Raconteur

2016

Le Raconteur

as

Self

What Is Cinema?

2013

What Is Cinema?

as

Self

The Stupids

1996

The Stupids

as

Gas Station Attendant

Spies Like Us

1985

Spies Like Us

as

Tadzhik Highway Patrolman

A Sore Spot

2017

A Sore Spot

as

Self

Burke & Hare

2010

Burke & Hare

as

French Family

Critic

2008

Critic

as

Self

Citizen Rosi

2019

Citizen Rosi

as

Self

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

2009

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

as

Self - Interviewee

Madame Rosa

1977

Madame Rosa

as

Le docteur Ramon

La Saga du Napoléon d'Abel Gance

2025

La Saga du Napoléon d'Abel Gance

as

Self - President of the Cinémathèque Française

Discorama

Discorama

as

Self

Clique

Clique

as

Self - Guest

Le Cercle

Le Cercle

as

Self

Leçon de Cinéma

Leçon de Cinéma

as

Self - Host

Production

Crew

Directing