Alexis Minotis

Born in Deliana, Chania, Alexis Minotis was a Greek actor and director who first appeared on stage in Crete as Chorus Leader and Messenger in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus. From 1925 to 1930 he worked with Marika Kotopouli in her theater, playing roles in The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Macbeth, and the title role in Hamlet, the first staging of the play in Greece. He also directed ancient Greek tragedies such as Hecuba, Antigone, and Prometheus Bound. In 1946 he went to Hollywood for Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious and appeared in The Chase. His other films included Siren of Atlantis (1949), Land of the Pharaohs (1955), and Boy on a Dolphin (1957). He directed Hecuba at Epidaurus in 1955 and starred in Oedipus Rex, later touring internationally with Oedipus at Colonus. He appeared on Broadway in Electra from 1930 to 1931 and in Oedipus Tyrannus in 1952, and directed Maria Callas in Medea (1958) and Norma (1960).