George Pan Cosmatos

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Georgios "George" Pan Cosmatos (born January 4, 1941 in Florence , Italy , † April 23, 2005 in Victoria , Canada ) was a Greek film director .

Hollywood director Cosmatos was best known for the film Rambo 2 - The Order and the 1993 Western Tombstone about gunslingers Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp , filmed with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer .

Cosmatos' father was a merchant from Kefalonia, after the birth of the son the family moved first to Egypt and then to Cyprus . George Pan Cosmatos began his film career as assistant director for Otto Preminger's Exodus (1960) and Michael Cacoyannis ' Alexis Sorbas (1964).

His most commercially successful film was Rambo 2 - The Order (1985) with Sylvester Stallone , for which he received a Golden Raspberry . With a budget of $ 44 million, the film grossed over $ 300 million worldwide. A year later he made the film Die City-Cobra , again with Stallone in the lead role.

His underwater horror film Leviathan with Peter Weller , Amanda Pays and Richard Crenna , made in Italy in 1989 , was by far his most expensive and technically demanding film. Designer Ron Cobb ( Alien , Conan the Barbarian ) and mask guru Stan Winston pulled out all the stops, but the film failed to prevail at the box office against James Cameron's competing product Abyss - Abyss of Death .

After the death of his wife Birgitta Ljungberg in 1997, he retired from the film business. In 2004 he was diagnosed with lung cancer and in the same year he lost his eyesight in a failed operation. Cosmatos died of cancer in 2005. His son Panos Cosmatos , who was born in Rome in 1974, is now a director himself. His debut film Beyond the Black Rainbow was made in 2010.

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SURNAME Cosmatos, George Pan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cosmatos, Georgios Pan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Italy
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2005
Place of death Victoria , Canada