George Pavlou

George Pavlou
Born	U.K.
Occupation	film director/film producer
Years active	1982 - 2010

George Pavlou is a London-based British horror, science fiction and thriller film director. Pavlou directed three feature films of which two were based on material from British horror writer Clive Barker.

He began his career directing and producing short films for the cinema. His first short Bad Company (1980), about a dysfunctional Greek family, won the Special Prize for Young Cinema at Tours film festival.

His second short film as director, The Antagonist (1981), was released theatrically through Rank Films as a support film to "Educating Rita". The film starred Ed Bishop and Trevor Peacock.

He subsequently co produced a third short titled Chickens Never Walk backwards (1982), released by 20th Century Fox theatrically as a support to Conan The Barbarian.

Other feature films as associate producer include Nutcracker starring Joan Collins and the cinema short Expresso Splasho , directed by Daniel Peacock, which supported the highly successful Eddie Murphy film Trading Places.

Subsequent work continued with a 26 part music television show One To One, hosted by Annie Nightingale and transmitted by London Weekend Television and a horror short for Channel Four titled Chillers broadcast in 1991.

Produced the children's television series titled Anything's Possible, transmitted by Channel Five television.

Pavlou embarked on creating his own film company directing and producing commercials, corporate films and documentaries from 1992 to the present day and recently executive produced a 90-minute bio documentary on Sid Vicious titled "Sid: By Those Who Knew Him" broadcast on Sky Arts channel 2009.

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