Born in Skourohori, Greece, he became a legend in the film industry as the President of the Twentieth-Century Fox from 1943 to 1962, when he resigned under the financial pressure, resulting from the making of the movie "Cleopatra".
His contribution to cinema was his introduction of Cinemascope, the greatest technical development, after the introduction of sound some twenty-five years before. Cinemascope consists of an anamorphic lens (invented by Prof. Henri Chretien), which restores an image to its original shape, the Miracle Mirror Screen, which gives brilliance to the projected image and the stereophonic sound, which creates a natural and realistic effect. This new invention allowed the studios to create a more realistic result.His vision opened new horizons to the film industry.
Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris