Dinos Dimopoulos

{{short description|Greek actor}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}

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| name = Dinos Dimopoulos

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|8|22|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Palairos, Greece

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|2|28|1921|8|22|df=yes}}

| death_place = Athens, Greece

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter, actor, theatre director

| yearsactive = 1940–1971

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Dinos Dimopoulos ({{langx|el|Ντίνος Δημόπουλος}}; 22 August 1921 – 28 February 2003) was a Greek actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 40 films between 1953 and 1993.{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1yYLAQAAMAAJ&q=%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82+1921|title=Λεξικό νεοελληνικής λογοτεχνίας: Πρόσωπα, έργα, ρεύματα, όροι|date=2007|publisher=Εκδοσεις Πατακη|isbn=978-960-16-2237-8|location=|pages=494|language=el}}

His 1959 film Astero was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1960 film Madalena was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3251/year/1961.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Madalena |access-date=21 February 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} He wrote also some theatrical plays. He has won the best director award in Thessaloniki Film Festival for the film The Asphalt Fever.{{cite web|title=awards 1967|url=http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=971&year=1967|publisher=Thessaloniki Film Festival|access-date=20 August 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200100/http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=el-GR&page=971&year=1967|url-status=dead}}