** Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer ( Zorba the Greek )

He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone, The Message, Guns for San Sebastian, Lion of the Desert and La Strada.

Quinn in his Oscar nominated role for Zorba the Greek ( film ) | Zorba the Greek

The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 was the high water mark of his career and resulted in another Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

In 1983, he reprised his most famous role, playing Zorba the Greek for 362 performances in a successful revival of the Kander and Ebb musical Zorba.

There is a statue of Anthony Quinn ( originally from Chihuahua ) doing his famous " Zorba the Greek " dance In Chihuahua Mexico

He scored for the films Zorba the Greek ( 1964 ), Z ( 1969 ), and Serpico ( 1973 ).

During 1964, he wrote the music for the Michael Cacoyiannis film Zorba the Greek, whose main theme, since then, exists as a trademark for Greece.

# Film scores: Phaedra ( Jules Dassin ), The Lovers of Teruel ( Raymond Rouleau ), Five Miles to Midnight ( Anatole Litvak ), Electra and Zorba the Greek ( Michalis Cacoyannis ), To Nisi tis Afroditis ( Harilaos Papadopoulos )

He composed his first opera Kostas Kariotakis ( The Metamorphoses of Dionysus ) and the ballet Zorba the Greek, premièred in the Arena of Verona during the Festival Verona 1988.

* 1964: Zorba the Greek ( Director: Mihalis Kakogiannis )

He is also known for his performance with Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek, as well as his roles in King of Hearts, Georgy Girl, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Fixer, which gave him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Osho aimed to create a " new man " combining the spirituality of Gautama Buddha with the zest for life embodied by Nikos Kazantzakis ' Zorba the Greek: " He should be as accurate and objective as a scientist ... as sensitive, as full of heart, as a poet ... as rooted deep down in his being as the mystic.

Cacoyannis also directed Zorba the Greek with Anthony Quinn which received Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film nominations.

Her first movie was the Greek language film Stella ( 1955 ), directed by Zorba the Greek director Michael Cacoyannis.

* Nikos Kazantzakis, writer of the novel Zorba the Greek, owned a villa in Old Town

The Cretan music theme Zorba's dance by Mikis Theodorakis ( incorporating elements from the hasapiko dance ) which appears in the Hollywood 1964 movie Zorba the Greek remains the best-known Greek song abroad.

* Anthony Quinn, actor ( Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, Viva Zapata !, Lust for Life ); twice won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ( 1952, 1956 ); lived and died in Bristol

His name is clearly a reference to the 1946 novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.

Zorba the Greek ( Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, Life and Adventures of Alexis Zorbas ) is a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946.

* Georgios Zorbas, ( 1867 – 1942 ) the main hero of the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, " Zorba the Greek ".

It is preceded by the novel The Glove of Darth Vader and followed by the novel Zorba the Hutt's Revenge.

** Zorba the Greek ( film ), a 1964 movie based on the novel

** Zorba ( musical ), a musical based on the novel and film

The novel was adapted into a successful 1964 film of the same name as well as a 1968 musical, Zorba.

Having overcome one of his own demons ( such as his internal " no ," which the narrator equates with the Buddha, whose teachings he has been studying and about whom he has been writing for much of the narrative, and who he also equates with " the void ") and having a sense that he is needed elsewhere ( near the end of the novel, the narrator has a premonition of the death of his old friend Stavridakis, which plays a role in the timing of his departure to the mainland ), the narrator takes his leave of Zorba for the mainland, which, despite the lack of any major outward burst of emotionality, is significantly emotionally wrenching for both Zorba and the narrator.

It is their time together in Stoupa that the novel Zorba the Greek is based upon, written after hearing news of Zorba's death.

His mother was killed by a robot that was used by Prince Zorba Fortunov.

Zorba, directed by Prince, also ran less than a year, though it was more successful in its 1983 revival ; and 70, Girls, 70, which was originally intended as an off-Broadway production, closed after 35 performances.

** Zorba – Book by Joseph Stein, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb.

Sirtaki or syrtaki () is a popular dance of Greek origin, choreographed, by Giorgos Provias for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek.

The dance, and the accompanying music by Míkis Theodorakis, are also called Zorbá's dance, Zorbas, or " the dance of Zorba ".

Aris San, who worked at the Zorba club in Jaffa, owned and opened by Shlomo Bachramov wrote songs for Aliza Azikri ( Bahayim hakol over, Yesh ahava ata omer ), that effectively broke down the barriers between Israeli song and the world of Greek and Mizrahi music.

Papas began her early career in Greece ( she was discovered by Elia Kazan ), achieving widespread fame there, before starring in internationally renowned films such as The Guns of Navarone and Zorba the Greek, and critically acclaimed films such as Z and Electra.

His mentor was Doctor David Zorba, played by Sam Jaffe.

In 1983, she reprised her role as Mme Hortense on Broadway in the musical version of Zorba the Greek, winning both a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award in the process.

Among the movie soundtrack albums released by 20th Century Fox Records were those of Zorba the Greek, The Bible: In the Beginning, Doctor Dolittle, and Patton, all of them 20th Century Fox films.

* Zorba ( bible study ), a translator of the New Testament from Aramaic to Greek, postulated by advocates of Aramaic primacy

The next morning, Cyrus and his family count the money, Buck keeps the mask used by Benjamin Rush to scare Buck's big sister Medea Zorba, and they decide to stay.

This hotel, located at SW 11th Avenue and Main Street, was owned by the Rajneesh religious group and featured the Zorba the Buddha nightclub.

According to the 1989 edition of the Guinness Book of Records, in March 1989, when he was 7 years old, Zorba stood at the shoulder and was from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, about the size of a small donkey.

The narrator and Zorba have a great many lengthy conversations, about a variety of things, from life to religion, each other's past and how they came to be where they are now, and the narrator learns a great deal about humanity from Zorba that he otherwise had not gleaned from his life of books and paper.