Director and researcher. He studied film at the Moscow Film Institute (1965–1970) and attended the workshop of Mikhail Romm. He began his career as a director at the national radio, staging numerous classical theatre works. In 1958 he presented a play by Ionesco for the first time in Greece, with the theatre group of the French Institute of Athens, while from 1961 and for two years he worked as a director at the “Dimitris Horn” Theatre.
From 1963 he turned to cinema, focusing primarily on documentary film. He directed dozens of documentaries on political, historical, and artistic subjects, including Musical Travelogue with Domna Samiou (1976–1977), as well as many works dedicated to the lives of ordinary people. He also directed three feature films. He was a founding member of the Board of the Greek Directors’ Guild.
Beyond his filmmaking work, he is considered to be one of the most important archival researchers in Greece and Europe. In 1968–1969 he researched the film archives of the former USSR, searching for material related to Greece. In 1997 he began organising the first newsreel archive in Greece, which has operated since 2000 within the Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2007–2008 he collaborated with the National Audiovisual Archive on the documentation of historical film archives.
He taught at the University of Crete (1993–1997), the University of Thessaly (2000–2002), and Panteion University (2003). In 2005 he was appointed head of ERT’s special programme for historical documentaries.