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Born · March 12, 1928
Died · November 12, 1992 (64 years old)
Known For: Directing
Place of Birth: Toledo, Ohio
Gregory J. Markopoulos (March 12, 1928 - November 12, 1992) was an American experimental filmmaker. Born in Toledo, Ohio to Greek immigrant parents, Markopoulos began making 8 mm films at an early age. He attended USC Film School in the late 1940s, and went on to become a co-founder — with Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage and others — of the New American Cinema movement. He was as well a contributor to Film Culture magazine, and an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1967, he and his partner Robert Beavers left the United States for permanent residence in Europe. Once ensconced in self-imposed exile, Markopoulos withdrew his films from circulation, refused any interviews, and insisted that a chapter about him be removed from the second edition of Visionary Film, P. Adams Sitney's seminal study of American avant-garde cinema. While he continued to make films, his work went largely unseen for almost 30 years.
Self
7.4
2013
0.0
2003
Himself
6.4
2002
0.0
2000
Self
6.3
1997
Himself
6.1
1972
0.0
1972
Self
0.0
1969
Narrator (voice)
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1969
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1967
Narrator / The Filmmaker
3.5
1967
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1967
Paul
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1967
Narrator (voice)
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1965
Himself
7.0
1965
6.0
1964
the protagonist, Swain
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1950
The Wanderer
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1948
Ebenezer Scrooge
10.0
1940