** 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

The 1960s found them with recording rights to a number of minor hits: No Strings, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and Golden Boy but mostly they got flop shows: Sail Away, Kwamina, The Gay Life, Skyscraper, Walking Happy, Zorba.

* Alexis Zorbas ( Zorba the Greek ) ( 1964 ): director, screenwriter, producer

* Zorba the Greek, a 1946 novel by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, about George Zorbas ( Alexis Zorbas )

It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba.

He claims expertise as a chef, a miner, and player of the santuri, or cimbalom, and introduces himself as Alexis Zorba, a Greek born in Romania.

* Alexis Zorba ( Αλέξης Ζορμπάς ), a fictionalized version of the mine worker, George Zorbas ( Γιώργης Ζορμπάς 1867 – 1942 ).

fr: Alexis Zorba

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

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

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

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

When occultist uncle Dr. Plato Zorba wills a huge ramshackle house to his nephew Cyrus and his impoverished family, they are shocked to find the house is haunted.

This record has never been officially bested, therefore it is widely agreed that Zorba may have been the heaviest dog ever.

Zorba the Hutt is the father of Jabba the Hutt.

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

Mama the Hutt is the mother of Ziro the Hutt and Zorba the Hutt.

The narrator, who has socialist ideals, attempts to get to know the workers, but Zorba warns him to keep his distance: " Man is a brute ....

" Zorba himself plunges into the work, which is characteristic of his overall attitude, which is one of being absorbed in whatever one is doing or whomever one is with at that moment.

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.

* The aim of man and matter is to create joy, according to Zorba – others would say ‘ to create spirit ,’ but that comes to the same thing on another plane.

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

That same year, in the Broadway revival of Zorba, Gaven played the role of The Widow who is eventually stoned to death by the townspeople after being held responsible for the suicide of a young boy who fell in love with her.

** 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.